Beirut Explosion Was 2750 Tons of Ammonium Nitrate

Sounds good.  Certainly makes a convincing cover story.  

Except that:

1  You must also mix it with diesel fuel. Somehow they forgot that part of the story.

2   Jets were heard and seen during it all.

3   Others claim that a large shipment of Iranian missles were in the warehouse.

4   Exactly who in this world remains stupid when it come to amonium nitrate and for seven years?

I knew the drill long ago because i worked around the mining industry when everyone still thought that dynamite was the cats meow.  That is no longer the case.  This stuff no longer moves without someone controling it.  Having a warehouse of this stuff next to grain silos would make for a very angry harbor master.

Now imagine a shipment of fireworks next to a shipment of ammonium nitrate right next to grain silos.  Even wiley coyote could not match this act.

Beirut Explosion Was 2750 Tons of Ammonium Nitrate 

Brian Wang | 

August 4, 2020 

 https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2020/08/beirut-explosion-was-2750-tons-of-ammonium-nitrate.html 

I eyeballed the big Beirut explosion and thought it was 1000 tons of explosive, however, it was 2750 tons of Ammonium Nitrate. 

Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab said an estimated 2750 tons of ammonium nitrate had been stored at a warehouse for six years. Buildings as far away as 10 kilometers from the site of the explosion were damaged. Windows were broken throughout Beirut. 

The blast registered as a 3.3 magnitude earthquake, the U.S. Geological Survey said. Ammonium Nitrate is an ingredient in fertilizer – and some bombs. The chemical has been behind several explosions in the past, both accidental and deliberate. It was used in a terror attack in 1995 in Oklahoma City – the worst domestic terrorism on US soil. An extremist, Tim McVeigh, created a bomb of ammonium nitrate, diesel fuel, and other chemicals. 

 Nextbigfuture commenter Dr. Pat Latest reports are that 

1. There was a confiscated shipment of 2750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored in the warehouse for the last 7 years. Just sitting there. 

2.. There was a large shipment of fireworks stored next to it. 

3.. The fireworks caught fire, that was the initial fire, which was itself pretty big. 

4.. Then the ammonium nitrate detonated. Calculating the yield based just on the fertilizer gives about a 2 kiloton yield.