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The Something Awful Forums > Main > General Bullshit > Beriut Explosion
 
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MagicBoots
Mar 29, 2010

How about we pump the atmosphere full of methane?
You put me on Cargo handling optimization?! I am the premier defense specialist in the entirety of the UN!
Don't you dare pull my funding!
You can't cut back on funding!
You will regret this!
So they stored 1750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate next to (or possibly with) a warehouse full of fireworks.

pop fly to McGillicutty posted:

The world is run by absolute idiots.
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MagicBoots
Mar 29, 2010

How about we pump the atmosphere full of methane?
You put me on Cargo handling optimization?! I am the premier defense specialist in the entirety of the UN!
Don't you dare pull my funding!
You can't cut back on funding!
You will regret this!

Universe Master posted:

By "port staff" I'm sure they mean the company management who decided to store 2700 tons of ammonium nitrate in a flimsy warehouse on the capital port.

Was it being stored by a company? I was under the impression it was seized by customs at the port 6 years ago and has been sitting in that warehouse collecting dust since.

Edit, ya it did just sit there for 6 years and no one with the authority to do so could be arsed to fill out the paperwork to remove it, from the guardian:

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Lebanese officials have started blaming each other for leaving the highly explosive substance sitting so close to residential neighbourhoods for six years. The ammonium nitrate was taken from a ship that docked in Beirut in 2013 and was apparently abandoned by its Russian owner and mostly Ukrainian crew.

Badri Daher, the director general of Lebanese customs, said on Wednesday that his office had sent six letters to the country’s judiciary urging them to deal with the chemicals either by exporting the load, reselling it or giving it to the army.

MagicBoots fucked around with this message at 22:09 on Aug 6, 2020

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