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TOMAHAWK9521 · 08-05-2020, 08:50

It reminds me of the cache of ammonium nitrate that was detonated in Mosul in early 2008. The story we got was whoever was guarding the cache probably got spooked and hit the clacker when Iraqi police were kicking in the doors of a neighbor structure in search of "the usual suspects".

IIRC, the amount of ammonium nitrate that detonated was estimated to be up in a ridiculous number of tons and leveled a number of city blocks. Guys up in Mosul initially thought it was a Daisy Cutter. Like Beruit, it looked like a massive brown mushroom cloud. Among the wreckage in the blast zone was found an injured imam that the Iraqi police were looking for.

08-05-2020, 08:50	#11
TOMAHAWK9521 Quiet Professional Join Date: May 2008 Location: Idaho Posts: 1,209	It reminds me of the cache of ammonium nitrate that was detonated in Mosul in early 2008. The story we got was whoever was guarding the cache probably got spooked and hit the clacker when Iraqi police were kicking in the doors of a neighbor structure in search of "the usual suspects". IIRC, the amount of ammonium nitrate that detonated was estimated to be up in a ridiculous number of tons and leveled a number of city blocks. Guys up in Mosul initially thought it was a Daisy Cutter. Like Beruit, it looked like a massive brown mushroom cloud. Among the wreckage in the blast zone was found an injured imam that the Iraqi police were looking for. __________________ "It is a brave act of valor to condemn death, but where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live." -Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) Last edited by TOMAHAWK9521; 08-05-2020 at 08:54.
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