BRKG Massive Explosion in Beirut
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Security forces fire tear gas at protesters outside in front of the Lebanese parliament in #Beyrouth . #beirut
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Security forces fire tear gas at protesters outside in front of the Lebanese parliament in #Beyrouth . #beirut
View: https://twitter.com/SVNewsAlerts/status/1291458187384807424
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Shadow
Swift, Silent,...Sleepy
I am not knowledgeable about photoshopping. We have seen missiles with and without flames and with apparent differences in size between videos. If one of these had appeared as soon as the first videos I might give them credence but with the time elapsed I suspect they have been altered.
Shadow
Shadow
What is a "GA member?" Sorry, in this, I'm either out of the loop, can't find it, or just plain clueless- you, HC, make the call...
Thanks, and Bright Blessings!
OA, GNIW
Holy crap on a cucumber! THAT was a missile! That ain't no firework, except in the Big-Ass, end yer mother colossal, earth shuddering way... Radiation was logged just after the event in Italy, a NATO station reported last night... Saw it and the accompanied graph... Damnit! When will these insane morons cease and desist?
Thoroughly disgusted with Man,
Bright Blessings,
OA, GNIW
mzkitty
I give up.
This one's bad too -- looks like standard hotel furnishings:
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This one's bad too -- looks like standard hotel furnishings:
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May never know, but from the video, I'd guess none of the three survived... Mankind is seriously F**ked-up. We were never meant to live and die in such a way, or in fear... May they rest in peace, awaiting a new life, for a much better place, free from fear and pain...
Blessed Be,
OA, GNIW
mzkitty
I give up.
Countrymouse
Country exile in the city
Ok, I got snookered by this one--the original twitter video doesn't show anything like a missile at all.
Did, however, finally have time to go back to the original video everyone was talking about--post 315.
Whatever it is, ti's not a bird. No flapping, and it's silver-colored, not black.
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Did, however, finally have time to go back to the original video everyone was talking about--post 315.
Whatever it is, ti's not a bird. No flapping, and it's silver-colored, not black.
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packyderms_wife
Neither here nor there.
This one's bad too -- looks like standard hotel furnishings:
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Interesting that there's a video camera in a room that appears to have three beds in it.
Countrymouse
Country exile in the city
Pictures from the warehouse:
The "Georgia" referenced is in the former USSR.
Picture of the factory:
The "Georgia" referenced is in the former USSR.
Picture of the factory:
bw
Fringe Ranger
Looks like a lobby, from the style of the door.
adgal
Veteran Member
This is a famous store in downtown Beirut that sells expensive bedsheets and covers...
Countrymouse
Country exile in the city
Countrymouse
Country exile in the city
Interesting:
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This video is no longer available because the uploader has closed their YouTube account.
I would like to have known WHAT you were referring to in your post, thorn.
Please give us a synopsis since you saw the video?
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Countrymouse
Country exile in the city
Thanks--
all the more interesting since they not only pulled the video BUT CLOSED THEIR YOU TUBE account---hmmmm............
packyderms_wife
Neither here nor there.
thanks that explains a lot.
mzkitty
I give up.
Sixteen detained over Beirut blast - prosecutor
Published August 7, 2020 4:19am
BEIRUT, Lebanon - Sixteen staff members at Beirut's port, the site of a massive explosion, have been detained over the deadly blast that devastated large parts of the city, a military prosecutor said Thursday.
Lebanese authorities had announced an investigation into Tuesday's explosion, which they said was triggered by a fire igniting 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate stored in a warehouse at Beirut's port.
Lebanon's foreign minister said on French radio Thursday that an investigating committee had been given four days to determine responsibility for the blast, which killed more than 130 people and wounded at least 5,000.
Military prosecutor Fadi Akiki said in a statement that 18 staffers at Beirut's port had been called in for questioning, 16 of whom remain in custody pending further investigations.
They include port and customs officials as well as maintenance workers and their managers, Akiki said.
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Published August 7, 2020 4:19am
BEIRUT, Lebanon - Sixteen staff members at Beirut's port, the site of a massive explosion, have been detained over the deadly blast that devastated large parts of the city, a military prosecutor said Thursday.
Lebanese authorities had announced an investigation into Tuesday's explosion, which they said was triggered by a fire igniting 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate stored in a warehouse at Beirut's port.
Lebanon's foreign minister said on French radio Thursday that an investigating committee had been given four days to determine responsibility for the blast, which killed more than 130 people and wounded at least 5,000.
Military prosecutor Fadi Akiki said in a statement that 18 staffers at Beirut's port had been called in for questioning, 16 of whom remain in custody pending further investigations.
They include port and customs officials as well as maintenance workers and their managers, Akiki said.
Sixteen detained over Beirut blast - prosecutor
Sixteen staff members at Beirut's port, the site of a massive explosion, have been detained over the deadly blast that devastated large parts of the city, a military prosecutor said Thursday.
Countrymouse
Country exile in the city
Sixteen detained over Beirut blast - prosecutor
Published August 7, 2020 4:19am
BEIRUT, Lebanon - Sixteen staff members at Beirut's port, the site of a massive explosion, have been detained over the deadly blast that devastated large parts of the city, a military prosecutor said Thursday.
Lebanese authorities had announced an investigation into Tuesday's explosion, which they said was triggered by a fire igniting 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate stored in a warehouse at Beirut's port.
Lebanon's foreign minister said on French radio Thursday that an investigating committee had been given four days to determine responsibility for the blast, which killed more than 130 people and wounded at least 5,000.
Military prosecutor Fadi Akiki said in a statement that 18 staffers at Beirut's port had been called in for questioning, 16 of whom remain in custody pending further investigations.
They include port and customs officials as well as maintenance workers and their managers, Akiki said.
Sixteen detained over Beirut blast - prosecutor
Sixteen staff members at Beirut's port, the site of a massive explosion, have been detained over the deadly blast that devastated large parts of the city, a military prosecutor said Thursday.
TYPICAL of the corrupt B@STARDS!!!
I read the earlier article (not sure how far back it is now; will bump it) that the PORT AUTHORITIES HAVE BEEN PETITIONING THE GOVT RULERS FOR 6 YEARS TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS---and THEY DID NOT!!!
Now they're trying to make "the little guy" be the fall-guy for THEIR failings!!!
Military prosecutor Fadi Akiki said in a statement that 18 staffers at Beirut's port had been called in for questioning, 16 of whom remain in custody pending further investigations.
They include port and customs officials as well as maintenance workers and their managers, Akiki said.
Yet who is REALLY at fault???
THE ONES WHO ARE PROSECUTING (PERSECUTING) THE PORT EMPLOYEES---
THE LEBANESE COURTS!!!!!!!!!
See from the post below:
In Lebanon, public rage focused on the negligence of the authorities, who were aware of the danger posed by the storage of 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate in a warehouse on the Beirut docks yet failed to act.
Senior customs officials wrote to the Lebanese courts at least six times from 2014 to 2017, seeking guidance on how to dispose of the ammonium nitrate, according to public records posted to social media by a Lebanese lawmaker, Salim Aoun.
“In view of the serious danger posed by keeping this shipment in the warehouses in an inappropriate climate,” Shafik Marei, the director of Lebanese customs, wrote in May 2016, “we repeat our request to demand the maritime agency to re-export the materials immediately.”
The customs officials proposed a number of solutions, including donating the ammonium nitrate to the Lebanese army or selling it to the privately owned Lebanese Explosives Co. Marei sent a second, similar letter a year later. The judiciary failed to respond to any of his pleas, the records suggested.
Lebanese judicial officials could not be reached for comment Wednesday.
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Countrymouse
Country exile in the city
Here it is--posted by (who else? Our expert news-hound) MzKitty, in post 679:
www.forbesindia.com
Blame For Beirut Explosion Begins With A Leaky, Troubled Ship - Forbes India
The ship, Rhosus, riddled by debts and manned by disgruntled sailors, carried a volatile cargo: more than 2,000 tons of ammonium nitrate, a combustible material used to make fertilizers—and bombs—that was destined for Mozambique
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Blame for Beirut explosion begins with a leaky, troubled ship
The ship, Rhosus, riddled by debts and manned by disgruntled sailors, carried a volatile cargo: more than 2,000 tons of ammonium nitrate, a combustible material used to make fertilizers—and bombs—that was destined for Mozambique
Published: Aug 6, 2020
A destroyed port the day after a massive explosion at the port on August 5, 2020 in Beirut, Lebanon. A waterfront warehouse storing explosive materials, reportedly 2,700 tons of ammonium nitrate, was the cause of the blast. Image: Fadel Itani/NurPhoto via Getty Images
CAIRO — The countdown to catastrophe in Beirut started six years ago when a troubled, Russian-leased cargo ship made an unscheduled stop at the city’s port.
The ship was trailed by debts, crewed by disgruntled sailors and dogged by a small hole in its hull that meant water had to be constantly pumped out. And it carried a volatile cargo: more than 2,000 tons of ammonium nitrate, a combustible material used to make fertilizers — and bombs — that was destined for Mozambique.
The ship, the Rhosus, never made it. Embroiled in a financial and diplomatic dispute, it was abandoned by the Russian businessman who had leased it. And the ammonium nitrate was transferred to a dockside warehouse in Beirut, where it would languish for years, until Tuesday, when Lebanese officials said it exploded, sending a shock wave that killed more than 130 people and wounded another 5,000.
The story of the ship and its deadly cargo, which emerged Wednesday in accounts from Lebanon, Russia and Ukraine, offered a bleak tale about how legal battles, financial wrangling and, apparently, chronic negligence set the stage for a horrific accident that devastated one of the Middle East’s most fondly regarded cities.
“I was horrified,” said Boris Prokoshev, the ship’s 70-year-old retired Russian captain, about the accident, speaking in a phone interview from Sochi, Russia, a Black Sea resort town just up the coast from where the ammonium nitrate began its journey to Beirut in 2013.
In Lebanon, public rage focused on the negligence of the authorities, who were aware of the danger posed by the storage of 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate in a warehouse on the Beirut docks yet failed to act.
Senior customs officials wrote to the Lebanese courts at least six times from 2014 to 2017, seeking guidance on how to dispose of the ammonium nitrate, according to public records posted to social media by a Lebanese lawmaker, Salim Aoun.
“In view of the serious danger posed by keeping this shipment in the warehouses in an inappropriate climate,” Shafik Marei, the director of Lebanese customs, wrote in May 2016, “we repeat our request to demand the maritime agency to re-export the materials immediately.”
The customs officials proposed a number of solutions, including donating the ammonium nitrate to the Lebanese army or selling it to the privately owned Lebanese Explosives Co. Marei sent a second, similar letter a year later. The judiciary failed to respond to any of his pleas, the records suggested.
Lebanese judicial officials could not be reached for comment Wednesday.
The Rhosus, which flew the flag of Moldova, arrived in Beirut in November 2013, two months after it left the Black Sea port of Batumi, Georgia. The ship was leased by Igor Grechushkin, a Russian businessman living in Cyprus.
Prokoshev, the captain, joined the ship in Turkey after a mutiny over unpaid wages by a previous crew. Grechushkin had been paid $1 million to transport the high-density ammonium nitrate to the port of Beira in Mozambique, the captain said.
The ammonium nitrate was purchased by the International Bank of Mozambique for Fábrica de Explosivos de Moçambique, a firm that makes commercial explosives, according to Baroudi and Partners, a Lebanese law firm representing the ship’s crew, in a statement issued Wednesday.
Grechushkin, who was in Cyprus at the time and communicating by telephone, told the captain he didn’t have enough money to pay for passage through the Suez Canal. So he sent the ship to Beirut to earn some cash by taking on an additional cargo of heavy machinery.
But in Beirut, the machinery would not fit into the ship, which was about 30 or 40 years old, the captain said.
Then Lebanese officials found the ship unseaworthy and impounded the vessel for failing to pay the port docking fees and other charges. When the ship’s suppliers tried to contact Grechushkin for payment for fuel, food and other essentials, he could not be reached, having apparently abandoned the ship he had leased.
Six crew members returned home, but Lebanese officials forced the captain and three Ukrainian crew members to remain on board until the debt issue was solved. Lebanese immigration restrictions prevented the crew from leaving the ship, and they struggled to obtain food and other supplies, according to their lawyers.
Prokoshev, the captain, said Lebanese port officials took pity on the hungry crew and provided food. But, he added, they didn’t show any concern about the ship’s highly dangerous cargo. “They just wanted the money we owed,” he said.
Their plight attracted attention back in Ukraine, where news accounts described the stranded crew as “hostages,” trapped aboard an abandoned ship.
The captain, a Russian citizen, appealed to the Russian Embassy in Lebanon for help but got only snippy comments like, “Do you expect President Putin to send special forces to get you out,” he recalled.
Increasingly desperate, Prokoshev sold some of the ship’s fuel and used the proceeds to hire a legal team, and these lawyers also warned the Lebanese authorities that the ship was in danger “of sinking or blowing up at any moment,” according to the law firm’s statement.
A Lebanese judge ordered the release of the crew on compassionate grounds in August 2014, and Grechushkin, having resurfaced, paid for their passage back to Ukraine.
Grechushkin could not be reached for comment Wednesday.
The crew’s departure left the Lebanese authorities in charge of the ship’s deadly cargo, which was moved to a storage facility known as Hangar 12, where it remained until the explosion Tuesday.
Ammonium nitrate, when mixed with fuel, creates a powerful explosive commonly used in construction and mining. But it has also been used to make explosive devices deployed by terrorists such as the 1995 Oklahoma City bomber, Timothy McVeigh, and the Islamic State group.
Sales of ammonium nitrate are regulated in the United States, and many European countries require it to be mixed with other substances to make it less potent.
Prokoshev, who said he is still owed $60,000 in wages, placed the fault with Grechushkin, and with Lebanese officials, who insisted on first impounding the boat and then on keeping the ammonium nitrate in the port “instead of spreading it on their fields.”
“They could have had very good crops instead of a huge explosion,” he said.
As for the Rhosus, Prokoshev learned from friends who sailed to Beirut that it had sunk in the harbor in 2015 or 2016 after taking water on board, he said.
His only surprise on hearing this, he added, was that it had not gone down sooner.
Blame For Beirut Explosion Begins With A Leaky, Troubled Ship - Forbes India
The ship, Rhosus, riddled by debts and manned by disgruntled sailors, carried a volatile cargo: more than 2,000 tons of ammonium nitrate, a combustible material used to make fertilizers—and bombs—that was destined for Mozambique
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mzkitty
I give up.
Posted before, but this one has partial translation: "It's a missile not a bomb."
View: https://twitter.com/ORWELL_00/status/1291545410390110208
View: https://twitter.com/ORWELL_00/status/1291545410390110208
big kumara
meh
That looks like two powerlines in the foreground. The circled 'object" is just part of one of those lines. Slap a ruler on it, fromthe left margin to the right and you will see.
Countrymouse
Country exile in the city
No--in the video it MOVES---I had to take two pictures to document its two positions.
A thingy on a power-line would not MOVE....
Watch the video.
Countrymouse
Country exile in the city
Why should the govt of Lebanon care?
They IGNORED the port authority officials WHO BEGGED THEM TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE AN STORED THERE FOR ^ YEARS.
Then they turn around and ARREST THE PORT AUTHORITY OFFICIALS AND WORKERS to make THEM the scapegoat for their own idiocy.
Their people have
NO power
NO water
NO food
NO shelter/ homes
NO jobs (the businesses have been destroyed, and those that aren't have no power)
NO hospitals (overwhelmed)
And---
The only thing the govt of Lebanon appears to care about is appeasing their Hizbollah allies / masters.
mzkitty
I give up.
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jward
passin' thru
This was my first, best assumption, and I'll let it be my conclusion unless something better comes along. . .
Amir Tsarfati
@BeholdIsrael
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Russian experts claim that 275 tons of ammonium nitrate would’ve completely wiped out Beirut. Everyone is asking now what else was there that actually caused the explosion. Again, all fingers are pointed at Hezbollah storing there shipments of rocket fuel from Iran.
Amir Tsarfati
@BeholdIsrael
36m
Russian experts claim that 275 tons of ammonium nitrate would’ve completely wiped out Beirut. Everyone is asking now what else was there that actually caused the explosion. Again, all fingers are pointed at Hezbollah storing there shipments of rocket fuel from Iran.
jward
passin' thru
All UN Member States are represented in the General Assembly...presume House's reference was relatedWhat is a "GA member?" Sorry, in this, I'm either out of the loop, can't find it, or just plain clueless- you, HC, make the call...
Thanks, and Bright Blessings!
OA, GNIW
General Assembly | United Nations
night driver
ESFP adrift in INTJ sea
Uhmmm, Jules, OA, the reference was "Double down like a lapsed GA member" which was a ref to a lapsed Gambler's Anonymous member.
mzkitty
I give up.
They did? What'd I miss/forget?
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