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Old 08-04-2020, 6:21pm   #1
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Default Beriut Explosion - Holee Chit !! Was That A Hydrogen Bomb?

80 dead , 12,000 injured.... Wow
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Was a big boom for sure.
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about 2,750 TONS of ANFO.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/l...clear-n1235767
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That's a lot of tons....
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That's a lot of tons....
That's what the news is reporting and why the blast was so big.
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That's a lot of tons....
5.5M lbs. or 88M oz. or 2,494,758.04 kg or 392,857.14364451 st. = big boom.
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Wow! Not fun to be in Lebanon these days.
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Same shit that went boom in Oklahoma City I believe.
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...and Texas City
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I guess mohammed should have been more careful while he was building his truck bomb...
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I guess mohammed should have been more careful while he was building his truck bomb...
Ship bomb

If you figure 30 tons of "product" per tractor trailer, that's about 90 of them
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Same shit that went boom in Oklahoma City I believe.
I thought Beruit was Sodium Nitrate and OK City was Ammonium Nitrate?
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Well, anyone that suspected Gozar can rest easy now.
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...and Texas City
My dad was living in Texas City when 2 ships loaded with aluminum nitrate exploded in the harbor killing over 600 people and destroying part of the city.
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...and Texas City
I've been in that plant where the SS Grandcamp was berthed when it blew, and you can still drive by on one of the main roads leading to the plant and see one of the propellers from the Grandcamp, a full MILE as the crow flies, from where it was docked

Crazy stuff.
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Same shit that went boom in Oklahoma City I believe.
The OKC bomb was ammonium nitrate. And if I remember correctly the there were approximately 7,000 pounds of it plus some high grade explosives and diesel fuel. I was a very large explosion! I was four blocks from the Murrah building and driving straight towards it when the bomb exploded. I won't go into the details but it was loud, devastating, and deadly. I cannot imagine the force of 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate. WOW!

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I thought Beruit was Sodium Nitrate and OK City was Ammonium Nitrate?
I read earlier tonight in the New York times that it was ammonium nitrate.
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News just reported that the product was confiscated and stored since 2014. Plenty of time for somebody to do their dirty work
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Who stores Anfo? Ammonium nitrate by itself will not explode. You have to add diesel fuel or fuel oil to it as a secondary component. No one I know stores Anfo which stands for Ammonium Nitrate+fuel oil in a volatile state.
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It's Beirut. Won't look any different than it did before.
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