Featured A Powerful explosion rocks Beirut.

[Gomig-21]

So you had no trouble blaming Hezbullah based on no facts no evidence and you blamed them for being bunch of unprofessional armatures who where storing Ammonium Nitrate there and got half of Beirut blown up.

Never said anything of the sorts. Please don't put words in my mouth to help suit your argument. That's rather amateurish.

And again this was not an industrial accident that happened in a factory in a middle of nowhere at a location that was zoned to store and produce such materials! Get this through your head, someone brought that shipment to Beirut and paid a hefty fine and used political clout to keep it stored there for 6 years despite warnings from the Lebanese military!
Why would politicians use political clout to go against the countries own military to store explosive materials at a port for 6 YEARS? WHY? And in a matter of months after Harriri is gone and right before the new government can get its wits about it BOOM! And it's not like the authorities weren't warned about it so without political influence and pressures that came down to keep it stored there such a thing would have never happened.
The fact that the Americans & French are going around and pushing the Lebanese to bring back Hariri camp while their media attempts to put the blame on Hezbollah also speaks for itself.

I told you, you're entitled to think whatever conspiracy theory you would like to believe. Trying to force me or anyone else to believe a certain conspiracy theory based on all these imaginative scenarios without anything except circumstantial events and probabilities and such might be your way of looking at things, it's not mine. So feel free to think whatever you wish.

And the ONLY thing Hezbullah has announced so far is that they do not want to rush to judgment and that there needs to be an impartial bipartisan investigation preferably led by the Lebanese Military and whomever was at fault needs to be judged and punished accordingly and publicly!

There you go. Let's see what turns out.

 

[kenyannoobie]

I knew it! I earlier mentioned the importance of certain dates. THEY'RE NOT EVEN HIDING ANYMORE!

"As an aside, former Likud MK Moshe Feiglin tweeted a quotation from the Bible about the disaster:

“There never have been such great days in Israel as the 15th of Av [the day of the bombing] and Yom Kippur."
https://geopolitics.co/2020/08/06/israel-bombed-beirut/

I highlighted this specific date.

 

[khansaheeb]

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/business-53712679

Beirut: Anatomy of a lethal explosion

Beirut: Anatomy of a lethal explosion

The explosion in a warehouse in Beirut ripped through a city known for both a heyday of glamour and a history of civil war.

Lebanese people are calling it their 9/11.

Starting with the epicentre, here we follow how the blast sent shock waves through Beirut, bringing life to a halt.

The Lebanese are famed for their resilience, rebuilding after 15 years of civil war, invasion and foreign occupation.

But this disaster comes on top of an unprecedented economic crisis – and the Covid-19 pandemic. Will the country ever be the same again?

Narrator: Caroline Hawley

Producer: Kate Forbes

Edit producer: Megan Fisher

Graphics: Terry Saunders

Published
3 days ago
Section
BBC News

 

[Ich]

IAEA Mission Detects No Radiation Increase in Beirut After Recent Blast

An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) team of experts has not detected elevated levels of radiation in areas surveyed during a mission to Beirut which was carried out in the aftermath of the massive blast two months ago. There were no artificial radionuclides in the measurements the team conducted during the visit in mid-September.
The team’s findings confirmed those previously reported by Lebanese authorities which had requested the IAEA assistance mission to support their emergency response efforts following the explosion in the Beirut port on 4 August. Even though the mission took place more than a month after the explosion, it would still have detected any subsequent increase in radiation.
The team, comprised of four experts from Denmark and France as well as four IAEA staff members, also gave advice on nuclear safety and security matters during the mission conducted from 14 to 18 September.
In a report presented to the Lebanese Atomic Energy Commission (LAEC) this week, the IAEA said radiation surveys conducted during the mission did not find any unusual radiation levels, only natural background radiation.
“The IAEA assistance mission, with the involvement of experts from Member States, conducted radiation surveys and analysis at specific sites to confirm that there were no elevated levels of radiation following the explosion,” said IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi. “The IAEA stands ready to provide further support to Lebanon as it strives to recover from the devastating explosion.”
The IAEA team also assessed the impact of the blast on radioactive material and sources. They confirmed that radioactive sources at two hospitals were safe and secure.
The team recommended some actions to be taken in scrapyards, hospitals and the port to strengthen nuclear safety and security, including training for scrapyard workers, better signage to indicate the presence of radioactive material and increased security for the storage of such material. Supporting the authorities with equipment was an important part of the mission, and the IAEA team provided training on the use of handheld radiation detection equipment which was also donated to the country.
"As Lebanon faces this challenging period, after the Beirut explosion and in the presence of COVID-19, we welcome the support the IAEA assistance mission provided for the response efforts of LAEC,” said Mr Bilal Nsouli, Director General at LAEC. “We look forward to continuing to cooperate with the IAEA as we strengthen nuclear safety and security in the country.”
The assistance mission was carried out at the request of Lebanon with the involvement of Member States registered in the IAEA’s Response and Assistance Network (RANET), a network of states which offers assistance to minimize the actual or potential radiological consequences of nuclear or radiological emergencies irrespective of the origin.
“We activated RANET based on the specific request of Lebanon to support response efforts in Beirut. After receiving offers of help from fourteen countries registered in RANET, the IAEA assembled and deployed an assistance mission to Beirut to monitor various locations throughout the city and to report official findings to Lebanon,” said Elena Buglova, Head of the IAEA’s Incident and Emergency Centre.
The IAEA has also supported Lebanon in other ways, including in the area of health, as many hospitals were damaged in the explosion.

IAEA Mission Detects No Radiation Increase in Beirut After Recent Blast | IAEA

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