WHAT HAPPENED IN BEIRUT?

[PeteS in CA]

WHAT HAPPENED IN BEIRUT?

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/08/what-happened-in-beirut.php

As the Lebanese people struggle to recover from the catastrophic deaths and destruction wrought by the Beirut explosion, more questions than answers continue to arise. The official story, that in 2013, Lebanese port officials impounded a Moldovan flagged ship bound for Mozambique, laden with explosive chemicals, does not address other facts which have emerged and must be investigated:

1. Sections of the Beirut port are under the control of the Hezbollah terrorist organization. ... As UN Ambassador Danny Danon recently stated: “Israel discovered that Iran and its Quds Force have been exploiting civilian maritime channels, and specifically the Port of Beirut.”

2. Hezbollah has a long history of illegally acquiring and stockpiling ammonium nitrate in civilian areas. In 2015, Britain’s M15 and Metro Police carried out a raid on a secret Hezbollah warehouse in London that contained 3 tons of ammonium nitrate. ...

3. The same year, police in Cyprus discovered a Hezbollah warehouse storing 8.3 tons of ammonium nitrate. ...

4. Israeli intelligence gave German police information, earlier this year, of the location of a Hezbollah stockpile of ammonium nitrate in southern Germany. ...

This article points out a pattern of behavior that may or may not be in play in the Beirut explosion. Storing that much Ammonium Nitrate for that many years is, IMO, suspicious.

[Cyber Liberty]

WHAT HAPPENED IN BEIRUT?

This article points out a pattern of behavior that may or may not be in play in the Beirut explosion. Storing that much Ammonium Nitrate for that many years is, IMO, suspicious.

I've been applying Hanlon's Razor to this one.

Hanlon's razor is an aphorism, "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity", known in several other forms. It is a philosophical razor which suggests a way of eliminating unlikely explanations for human behavior. Similar statements have been recorded since at least the 18th century. It is probably named after Robert J. Hanlon, a person who submitted the idea to a joke book.

I think the Lebanese just crammed an entire cargo hold of a ship they confiscated from Russia into a warehouse, then simply forgot about it.  Envision the final scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark.