The Lebanon explosions.

COLVERT · 5th August 2020, 11:30

Those dreadful explosions in the Lebanon.

The government there is saying the culprits will be found and punished !!!!!!!

It's the government who allowed nearly 3,000 tons of explosive substances to be stored there for what seems now to be many years.

Passing the buck springs to mind.---

It was him wot did it, not me.

Rick-sta · 5th August 2020, 11:58

Awful, saw all the video clips on facebook and on the news yesterday. Never seen an explosion like it with a mushroom cloud!

Initially thought it must have been a bomb, but now as more footage has emerged it looks more like a fire caused some very explosive chemicals or substances to ignite.

What an earth were they doing storing that kind of explosive material there.

Many lives lost, we'll see the death count go up in the coming days.

suzublu · 5th August 2020, 12:22

Poor storage of ammonium nitrate apparently

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KWIL · 5th August 2020, 15:29

Ammonium Nitrate = fertiliser?

Rogue · 5th August 2020, 15:32

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Originally Posted by KWIL

Ammonium Nitrate = fertiliser?

Yup... A high nitrogen fertiliser. It is also a componant of commonly used explosives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammoni...rate_disasters

wraymond · 5th August 2020, 17:55

There seems no limit to the disregard for human life, not just in that location but in our own backyard as well. The only motivational impulse is to destroy any resistance to public disapproval of minority organisations using criminal and murderous means to gain a hollow supremacy. And then even for a relatively short time. From acts of war to estate gangs, we are fools to tolerate it.

Even when they get into power their only course is to subjugate and terrorise the population to maintain supremacy. And then make spurious claims of divine support. They are sick, not ill, just sick. That material was for anything but fertiliser, unless of course for the gardener's joy - blood and bone. They certainly got that, most of it from children.

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.

Rogue · 5th August 2020, 18:04

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Originally Posted by wraymond

There seems no limit to the disregard for human life, not just in that location but in our own backyard as well. The only motivational impulse is to destroy any resistance to public disapproval of minority organisations using criminal and murderous means to gain a hollow supremacy. And then even for a relatively short time. From acts of war to estate gangs, we are fools to tolerate it.

Even when they get into power their only course is to subjugate and terrorise the population to maintain supremacy. And then make spurious claims of divine support. They are sick, not ill, just sick. That material was for anything but fertiliser, unless of course for the gardener's joy - blood and bone. They certainly got that, most of it from children.

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.

I believe it was confiscated from a non seaworthy ship 6 years ago. What is surprising is that it hadn't been moved out of the warehouse in all that time.

trikey · 6th August 2020, 07:04

I am surprised the haul didn’t get sold on the black market soon after it arrived tbh?!?

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