Massive blast rocks Beirut's port area, killing at least 25
BartSimpson @ Thu Aug 06, 2020 9:47 am
xerxes xerxes:
The aftermath...
Now he just needs to install a floor to ceiling window and run with the new view! For now though a guard rail might be a nice idea.
DrCaleb @ Thu Aug 06, 2020 11:59 am
Canada will not offer direct aid to Lebanese government, funds will go to 'trusted' partners
Because if we gave it to the government, it would just go toward their new BMWs.
Thanos @ Thu Aug 06, 2020 12:17 pm
Karmic fortune, as such, that the granary absorbed so much of the shock wave. If it hadn't been right next to the blast then a lot more of the port, and probably a good chunk of downtown too, would have got clobbered even harder.
xerxes @ Thu Aug 06, 2020 1:42 pm
Closest view yet of the blast: The people survived.
BartSimpson @ Fri Aug 07, 2020 9:29 am
Lebanon's President Michael Aoun is now investigating reports that the initial fire that resulted in the explosion may have been started by a missile or an air dropped bomb. The French military is assisting with satellite and radar tracking data.
And by "French" what's probably meant here is "Israeli".
llama66 @ Fri Aug 07, 2020 1:44 pm
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canadian ... -1.5678077
Sunnyways @ Fri Aug 07, 2020 2:52 pm
This is one occasion where conspiracy theories will be hard to launch given the deep belief in government corruption and incompetence there:
$1:
Dozens of bags of fireworks were stored in the same hangar as thousands of tonnes of ammonium nitrate at Beirut’s port and may have been a decisive factor in igniting the explosive chemical compound that fuelled Tuesday’s huge explosion, a former port worker and other sources have told the Guardian.
As angry Lebanese plan a major protest in central Beirut on Saturday, scrutiny has focused on how 2,750 tonnes of the dangerous material could have been stored so close to residential neighbourhoods for years – despite repeated warnings of the risk it posed.
A former port worker, Yusuf Shehadi, told the Guardian he had been instructed by the Lebanese military to house the chemicals in warehouse 12 at the port despite repeated protests by other government departments.
“We complained a lot about this over the years,” said Shehadi, who worked at the port until emigrating to Canada in March this year. “Every week, the customs people came and complained and so did the state security officers. The army kept telling them they had no other place to put this. Everyone wanted to be the boss, and no one wanted to make a real decision.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/ ... -in-hangar
As angry Lebanese plan a major protest in central Beirut on Saturday, scrutiny has focused on how 2,750 tonnes of the dangerous material could have been stored so close to residential neighbourhoods for years – despite repeated warnings of the risk it posed.
A former port worker, Yusuf Shehadi, told the Guardian he had been instructed by the Lebanese military to house the chemicals in warehouse 12 at the port despite repeated protests by other government departments.
“We complained a lot about this over the years,” said Shehadi, who worked at the port until emigrating to Canada in March this year. “Every week, the customs people came and complained and so did the state security officers. The army kept telling them they had no other place to put this. Everyone wanted to be the boss, and no one wanted to make a real decision.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/ ... -in-hangar
This guy is even closer to the edge of his apartment:
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Strutz @ Sat Aug 08, 2020 6:36 pm
Photos from Beirut:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/photos/massive- ... -1.5676570
herbie @ Sun Aug 09, 2020 10:33 am
$1:
This is one occasion where conspiracy theories will be hard to launch given the deep belief in government corruption and incompetence there:
No shit.
But watch as those politicians try their very best to deflect any blame for letting that big a stockpile sit for that long right downtown.
DrCaleb @ Mon Aug 10, 2020 10:03 am
Lebanese government resigns as explosion fallout continues