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VIDEO: MASSIVE Explosion in Beirut Caused By 2,750 TONS of Ammonium Nitrate In Unsecured Warehouse
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‘It’s crystal clear Hezbollah are in charge of the port and warehouse’: Leading Lebanese politician blames terrorist group and ‘corrupt’ government for catastrophic explosion – as aerial images reveal blast even sank a cruise ship
- Bahaa Hariri, 54, has said everyone in the city knew that Hezbollah controlled Beirut’s port and airport
- Blast has threatened to reignite anti-government protests in Lebanon that have been ongoing since last year
- At least 137 people have so far died, with some 5,000 wounded, 300,000 homeless, and widespread damage
- Investigators say 16 employees of Beirut’s port have been detained and 18 questioned in total
By: Chris Pleasance, Nigel Rosser, and Raven Saint, Daily Mail Online, 7 August 2020
A leading Lebanese opposition figure has blamed Hezbollah, along with the country’s ‘corrupt’ government, for the devastating explosion in Beirut which capsized a cruise ship and has so far claimed 137 lives.
Bahaa Hariri, whose father, Prime Minister Rafiq, was assassinated in 2005, said last night everyone in the city knew Hezbollah controlled Beirut’s port and airport and it was inconceivable that the authorities did not know the deadly ammonium nitrate was stored in a warehouse there.
Speaking for the first time Mr Hariri, 54, said: ‘The question we have to ask is how come for six years this combustible material was allowed to remain in the middle of this city of two million people?’
‘It is crystal clear Hezbollah are in charge of the Port and the Warehouse where the ammonium nitrate was stored.
‘Nothing goes in and out of the Port or the Airport does so with them knowing. Nothing.‘Their decision to put it there in the middle of a city of two million people was an utter disaster. And now we have a destroyed city centre.’
The explosion on Tuesday night, which was the size of a small nuclear bomb, has left at least 137 people dead and a further 5,000 wounded.
There are now thought to be 300,000 left homeless and wide-spread damage estimated at up to $5billion – including a 120-metre long cruise ship which capsized as a result of the blast.
A military judge leading the investigation into Tuesday’s blast said 16 employees of Beirut’s port, where the explosion took place, had been detained. He said 18 had been questioned, including port and customs officials, according to the state news agency.But while investigators focus on port officials, many Lebanese put the blame squarely on the political elite and the corruption and mismanagement that even before the disaster had pushed the country to the brink of economic collapse.
Cypriot police say they have questioned a Russian man over alleged links to a ship and its cargo of ammonium nitrate said to have caused the devastating explosion.The explosion has threatened to reignite anti-government protests in Lebanon that have been ongoing since last year amid allegations of entrenched incompetence and corruption.
Emmanuel Macron offered France’s support for the Lebanese people as he visited Beirut on Thursday, but warned the country would ‘continue to sink’ unless its leaders carry out reforms.
A leading Lebanese opposition figure has blamed Hezbollah, along with the country’s government, for the devastating explosion in Beirut on Tuesday which capsized a cruise ship (pictured) and has so far claimed 137 lives
A leading Lebanese opposition figure has blamed Hezbollah, along with the country’s government, for the devastating explosion in Beirut on Tuesday which capsized a cruise ship (pictured) and has so far claimed 137 lives
Bahaa Hariri, whose father, Prime Minister Rafiq, was assassinated in 2005, said last night everyone in the city knew Hezbollah controlled Beirut’s port and airport and it was inconceivable that the authorities did not know the deadly ammonium nitrate was stored in a warehouse there
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44 Comments
3 years ago
Hezbollah controls the majority of ministry positions in Lebanon, and Aoun, the president, is technically a Christian, but he is a Hezbollah puppet. Trump has applied strong economic pressure on Lebanon, to dump Hez from power. Their currency is now worthless, they defaulted on their public debt in April, and poverty is now endemic. Last night, demonstrators tried to storm the Lebanese parliament.
But Hez is still in control, 100% financed by Iran, and still constantly threatening war with Israel.
3 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
Lebanon is now a muslum majority state, as such, it will never be a friend to Israel or the free world because the fascist, antisemitic ideology that is islam is incompatible with such goals.
3 years ago
16 Detained in Beirut Blast Investigation
https://www.theepochtimes.com/16-detained-in-beirut-blast-investigation-report_3453352.html
“Judge Fadi Akiki, a government representative at the military court, said Lebanese authorities had so far questioned at least 18 Beirut port and customs officials, as well as individuals involved in maintenance work at the warehouse.”
The Beirut harbor master sent multiple warnings to the Hezbollah-controlled government about the danger. Now they arrest him.
Rule # 77: Never get someone to investigate themselves.
3 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
But Hillary did that! She self investigated Benghazi and there was no wrong doing. It was amazing!
3 years ago
Better a muslum state gets smoked/burned/blown-up than what the eventual target was for these munitions: Israel. This is just another case of premature jihadulation.
3 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
Yes, but most of the damage was in the Christian sector. Ditto casualties.
3 years ago
Reply to
lostlegends
The only option for Christians in Lebanonistan or Egypt is to leave. Things are never going to get any better for them in those muslum sh!teholes only worse.
3 years ago
Reply to
lostlegends
I also was considering what group actually was most affected by the blast, where the Christian enclaves in Lebanon are located. While the”war” is technically over, death and even worse destruction continues.
3 years ago
Whatever happened to blaming Israel for everything that happens?
3 years ago
Reply to
mjazzguitar
well, i think we all know who’s behind getting rid of this 3,000 tons of explosives that was destined to kill jews.
3 years ago
Reply to
tituspullo
They have a history of minimizing enemy casualties, not doing mass civilian hits. Besides, all they had to do was wait. Arabs have a history of blowing themselves up. Fireworks factory, ammonium nitrate, corruption, Hezbollah – hell, all they had to do was wait.
3 years ago
The Lebanese public will have to get their guts up and ride Nasrallah out on a rail and take the Iranains with him. If not Lebanon will continue to be a failed state and the misery meter will go off the charts.
3 years ago
Reply to
Ron rockit
that’s why i love american imperialism, we make the world better wherever we take over. i say we should invade lebanon, build the biggest air force base on the planet, and rebuild beirut as the paris of the middle east with an american flag flying over it. the alternative is allowing iran to turn it into mogadishu.
3 years ago
Reply to
tituspullo
What’s the point? Lebanon is now a majority muslum state. It’s O-V-E-R for Lebanese Christians they lost that fight decades ago.
3 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
well, the american govt would expel the iranians and their murderous army of god, re-open the churches and invite the Christians back to Lebanon, and divide the country into muslim areas and Christian areas
3 years ago
Reply to
tituspullo
It’s too late, your idea might have worked twenty or thirty years ago but not now.
3 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
After the Marine barracks suicide truck bombing with many Marines killed in their sleep, America pulled out of Lebanon for good.
3 years ago
Reply to
tituspullo
Nice dream but only God can deal with that as many muslims are coming to Christ as they are sick of murderous Islam and it was only other week hezbullah tried and was spotted trying to enter Israel as they were probably going to use either a tunnel or the cruise ship to set off this bomb in Israel and been amassing troops so the army are involved up to their necks with the terrorists planning an invasion!
3 years ago
Reply to
Ron rockit
Time for them to buck up and defend their own country. Why should should OTHERS have to do it if they don’t care to do it? I am tired of the U.S. military being used as unpaid mercenaries and not appreciated.
3 years ago
Reply to
Ron rockit
Lebanonistan is now a muslum majority state — part of the reason it is now a member of the fascist muslum NGO called the OIC.
3 years ago
when you say “hezb’allah” you are saying “iran”. this explosion and the thousands killed and maimed by it can be laid at the feet of jimmy carter and the democrats, who threw the shah under the bus and gave us the muslim nutcases who now run persia, terrorize the world, and who have killed and maimed tens of thousands of american soldiers and civilians over the last 40 years. also, the muslim aka as barry soetoro gave them pallets of our money 4 years ago to help them build a nuclear bomb. tehran should be been turned in a smoldering pile of bricks in 1979, and maybe trump will finally get around to ridding the world of those pests during his next term
3 years ago
Reply to
tituspullo
No one threw the Shah under the bus. The Shah had been diagnosed with cancer before he abdicated. He was in no position to resist the Ayatrollah’s forces or their Communist allies because the cancer was already well advanced. Shortly after he abdicated the Shah left Iran to get cancer treatment abroad. He didn’t live more than a year or two after he abdicated.
3 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
Carter and CIA played a role, although likely documents documenting their actions likely were shredded decades ago. Carter forced the Shah out, or at least stopped supporting him and his regime due to human rights abuses, and made it possible for the Ayatollah K. to return from exile in France.
The Iranian people chose the Ayatollah to be their country’s leader, and the Ayatollah and the Revolutionary guards have run the country since.
The CIA reportedly didn’t have a clue.
CIA had installed the Shah’s regime many years before, so Iranians hated the Americans.
Thousands of Iranians were killed by the regime which didn’t tolerate political dissent.
American foreign policy,especially under the Carter administration, was a disaster.
3 years ago
Reply to
StevenRobert
No one forced the Shah out, he was DYING of cancer. There was no regime to support. The Shah should’ve appointed a successor BEFORE he abdicated. It’s obvious the Ayatrollah enjoyed the support of a large proportion of Iranians (as well as the Communists).
3 years ago
COLLATERAL DAMAGE – ” … at least 137 people dead and a further 5,000 wounded. There are now thought to be 300,000 left homeless and wide-spread damage estimated at up to $5 billion – including a 120-metre long cruise ship which capsized as a result of the blast…”
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Let the Muslim nations offer assistance – – relief for their own religious followers. (QURAN)
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Abu Huraira narrated that the Prophet said: The best charity is that which is practiced by a wealthy person. And start giving first to your dependents. (Bukhari)
Salman ibn Amer reported that the Prophet said: To give something to a poor man brings one reward, while giving the same to a needy relation brings two: one for charity and the other for respecting the family ties. (Ahmad, Ibn Majah, Nasai, Tirmidhi)
3 years ago
Hezbollah, 2750 tons of ammonium nitrate, corruption, fireworks factory, hell, what could go wrong?
3 years ago
The Lebannese pound was worth 0.00066 USD before the blast. Their money is worthless for all practical purposes. Got gold, got silver? I do. In the ground at my mine. Investor inquiries welcome. Lost Sierra location.
3 years ago
Lebanonistan’s fewer and fewer Christians are the only victims in all this. I have some sympathy for them, none for the muslum bastards.
3 years ago
The Lebanese Government should sue Hezbollah for all the deaths and destruction !!!!
3 years ago
This explosion was probably not intended but maybe not all the 2750 tonnes was still there. Assad needed plenty of explosive materials for his barrel bombs and Hezbollah could have been getting another batch ready to sneak over into Syria when they got it wrong.
3 years ago
His father (former muslum PM of Lebanonistan), brother (also muslum and recently PM of Lebanonistan) and he had no problems w/his fellow f’ing muslums bombarding Israel with Iranian knock-off Katyusha rockets from 2007 to 2015 — they certainly did nothing to stop it. I’m sure if the NH4NO3 had been successfully used against Israel as intended he wouldn’t have had any problems with that either. Ongoing persecution of Christians has hardly been problematic for his tribe of rich muslum bastages either.
3 years ago
Pick Me! Pick Me! Pick Me!
“It was set off by an Elite Squad of Mossad Agents ‘cos the Israelis heard that the Hezbullshitters were going to load it on a ship to move it to safety but really sail it into an Israeli Port for detonation!
3 years ago
They definitely meant to be used on Israel’s Haifa port and of course the terrorist hezbollah were responsible and didn’t care how many Christians could die as Iran funds them 100% Those people killed were innocent ordinary folk and of course there must’ve been a few terrorists who accidentally committed a pre mature eruption who are now in front of God whose wrath will give them a fear of God and been judged . Lebanon was Christian TIL they agreed a power share which led to a war and Christians massacred for their kindness and good will and since then it’s become another Arab hellhole run by terrorists who grow fat while normal folk go hungry and no work plus corona , may God wrap his arms of comfort for the bereaved and add the number of dead to Jesus martyrdom army who will accompany Christ when the word of truth in the form of a sword cuts down the wicked amen
3 years ago
Reply to
Michelle
The NH4NO3 certainly could have been packed into multiple cargo ships and an attempt made to get into the port at Haifa, but they could also have packed the NH4NO3 into many, many, many trailer trucks or panel trucks or vans and used them on Israeli checkpoints as well. Or even packed them into tunnels dug under Israeli checkpoints. I’m just glad the muslums blew themselves up before they were able to initiate any of their plans.
3 years ago
Hmmm things mysteriously blowing up in ANTI iSRAELI COUNTRIES – Might not be accidental –
3 years ago
they are antifa
