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2020-08-08 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Lebanon's customs chief, predecessor, head of port arrested

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Posted by Fred 2020-08-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top
File under: Hezbollah

#1 Somehow I don't this will stick.

Posted by gorb 2020-08-08 00:26|| 2020-08-08 00:26|| Front Page Top

#2 I doubt the material was ever produced for peaceful agricultural purposes (sitting a bit too long). It has likely achieved it's intended purposes. The targeting was a bit off however, inshallah maintenance and storge.... no help.

When kept in large storage lots (2750 tons is large), you simply can't trust the stuff or the people charged with it's safe keeping:

In 1947, an explosion in Texas City, Texas, killed at least 581 people and wounded 3,500 after two cargo ships carrying ammonium nitrate caught fire. In 2013, a fertilizer plant in West, Texas, caught fire and exploded, killing 15 people. In 2015, disaster struck in Tianjin, China, when a fertilizer explosion killed 165 people at a busy seaport.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-08-08 06:47|| 2020-08-08 06:47|| Front Page Top

#3 But the usual suspects will be rounded up.

/sarc

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-08-08 07:42|| 2020-08-08 07:42|| Front Page Top

#4 I still believe this material was Nasrallah's 'Ace in the Hole' that he counted on for future usage against the jooos.

He was pretty excited the other day after it exploded.

Oh well,

Posted by Mullah Richard 2020-08-08 11:30|| 2020-08-08 11:30|| Front Page Top

#5 BBC said the cargo was meant for an explosives firm in Mozambique. So I guess it wasn't the adulterated form they sell for fertilizer, but purer.

Posted by James 2020-08-08 12:34|| 2020-08-08 12:34|| Front Page Top

#6 More details

The cargo was intended for an ammunition factory but the skipping company diverted it to Beirut to pick up a cargo. It was stuck there due to a conflict about port fees. The cargo was on loaded into a warehouse where it sat for several years. During some elding at the warehouse it ignited...

Posted by CrazyFool 2020-08-08 13:33|| 2020-08-08 13:33|| Front Page Top

#7 It was stuck there due to a conflict about port fees.

Sounds like someone didn't get paid off.

Posted by gorb 2020-08-08 14:14|| 2020-08-08 14:14|| Front Page Top

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