Collecting evidence to help ascertain what happened on August 4, 2020 when a huge explosion occurred at the Port of Beirut, Lebanon.
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WHAT WE KNOW SO FAR
Someone wanted that port destroyed
-Not an airstrike [continuous small 'crackles' build up to the larger second explosion]
-Not fireworks [no colours]
-Not a simple chemical reaction
Assassinations aren't done with explosions that big, and the bomb was stationary - an extremely ineffective approach to such an attack.
We can rule out single targets.
-NO RADIATION DETECTED
-Nothing to do with 'watch the water'
Starting to get a better picture of the devastation at the Port of #Beirut.
Storage warehouses 6,9,10,11, and 12 are total losses, and cannot even be identified from an aerial prospective.
Neighboring facilities are destroyed, as well.
https://mobile.twitter.com/IntelCrab/status/1290713803915776008
#Lebanese Army Major General Ibrahim “it appears that the explosion occurred in a store of high explosive materials confiscated for years”
[Pictures of devastated blast site - Port]
https://mobile.twitter.com/no_itsmyturn/status/1290702444117327880
Director General of Lebanese Customs Badri Daher tells @AlMayadeenNews "tons" of nitrates exploded in Beirut Port
https://mobile.twitter.com/DavidADaoud/status/1290705338019258370
We received a number of reports from #Cyprus (250km away) which seem related to this explosion, reporting noise and rattling windows
https://mobile.twitter.com/LastQuake/status/1290686442205839361
Fireworks or some other smaller explosions happening before big explosion
UP CLOSE VIDEO RIGHT BEFORE EXPLOSION
[Also, thread with a great deal of on-the-ground-info]
https://mobile.twitter.com/Natsecjeff/status/1290681144795639808
anon having trouble posting 5 MP4s at once - will try 1 at a time
All from >>>/qresearch/10181275
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>>>/qresearch/10181316
>Some notes on nitric acid:
>Being a powerful oxidizing acid, nitric acid reacts violently with many organic materials and the reactions may be explosive.
>Nitric acid is neutralized with ammonia to give ammonium nitrate.
>Nitric acid has been used in various forms as the oxidizer in liquid-fueled rockets. These forms include red fuming nitric acid, white fuming nitric acid, mixtures with sulfuric acid, and these forms with HF inhibitor. IRFNA (inhibited red fuming nitric acid) was one of 3 liquid fuel components for the BOMARC missile.
>Being a strong oxidizing agent, nitric acid can react with compounds such as cyanides, carbides, or metallic powders explosively and with many organic compounds, such as turpentine, violently and hypergolically (i.e. self-igniting). Hence, it should be stored away from bases and organics.
>Looks like nitric acid could be reason for red explosion cloud and big boom
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitric_acid
>Red-orange tinges to explosions can indicate thermite. Thermite is a mix of auminum and iron and burns with a distinctive red-orange flame. The Hindenburg disaster was partly caused by the silver colour in the dope used on the airship being almost the same composition of iron and aluminium. A NASA guy researched this for years and the Zeppelin Museum confirmed his findings.
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>https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gxm_qpKh7Jw (vid is demonstration of destructive power of C4)
>Possible high yield explosives detonated near incendiaries?
>Just woke up. Talked to my dad about the blast.
>He used to work in intelligence (submarine, over 30 years ago). He thinks the blast may have been caused by C4 or RDX plus incendiary. Possibly a lot of it???? That shit is known for producing some pretty powerful blasts.
>Keep in mind this is his best guess
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>Yeah it was definitely a thermobaric explosion as the vacuum effect made that clearly obvious. That helps narrow things down significantly as that is pretty high end stuff and not something that is usually in the hands of terrorists.
>1) For a deployment of that particular weapon you can either altitude, ship deploy, hand deploy through launcher, manual set up, or on site robot deploy.
>2) We saw fireworks going off before the explosion. This indicates a fire in the building beforehand. In fact we saw there was a fire going off beforehand. The fire was likely the trigger given what we saw so that means it was likely a device in place.
>3) Given the seemingly putrid levels of security on that port (could be wrong but just what it looks like to me) it could have either been setup after a docking, through a dockhand, through an aquatic drop operation, through many, many different methods.
>4) The fire is the key. When was the fire started, who started it, where was the fire origination point, why was the fire not immediately contained, and for how long did the fire burn for. Whoever started that fire is likely the same person/group who setup the device as they used the fire as a type of wick while they were able to get to safe distance if this was the method. Meaning the fire likely was started at enough distance for them to get back into the water and reach safe distance.
>5) Who came into port today? One of those ships likely carried both the device and group/person who did it as the ship would be a much easier method of transport with much less risk of discovery.
>We also need to look into:
>a) Were any diplomats/anyone special in Beirut today? I guarantee someone was, just need to figure out who.
>b) What have been the responses from the potential antagonists. They always tell us a lot about things by how they offer their statement.
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>High temps are req'd to start the thermite reaction. Most commonly used method is magnesium burning. Guess what fireworks contain a lot of?….Magnesium
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>Seems we are getting some help from E. here. Indications are this blast in Beirut is somehow linked to a targeted hit on Nazar Najarian who is connected to companies revealed in the Panama Papers.
>https://twitter.com/ETheFriend/status/1290717179063816199
>Nazar Najarian was CEO of Tetran Holding Inc., whose agent was Mossack Fonseca- the lawfirm that went down in the fallout of the Panama Papers and was found to be the creator of half of the worlds offshore shell companies. Tetran was an intermediary of N.G. Trustees and Nominees Limited.
>These offshore shell companies are about more than just tax evasion. It was found in the subsequent investigations they deliberately serve the needs of those who wish to conceal conflicts of interest, pay bribes, avoid sanctions and launder money.
>https://offshoreleaks.icij.org/nodes/11002670
>https://www.transparency.org/en/news/three-years-after-the-panama-papers-progress-on-horizon
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Does it show an incoming object on the left side?
>>10181576
>Beirut port blast was equivalent to magnitude 4.5 earthquake, Jordanian seismologists say
>https://twitter.com/SputnikInt/status/1290731979982491650
>>>10181506
>"The blast near the port in the Lebanese capital sent up a huge mushroom cloud-shaped shockwave, flipping cars and damaging distant buildings. It was felt as far as Cyprus, hundreds of miles away.
>Dig on the ports near the explosion
>https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/08/04/middleeast/beirut-explosion-port-intl/index.html
So this anon believes there is evidence of radiation.
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Guess what anons? The wind does blow NE in Beruit. On the surface. But at 27,000 feet they blow directly at thehotradiation monitoring station at PEDARA, SICILIA, ITALIA. Rehovot, Central, Israel also shows a spike. I don't enjoy saying this. But anon is callingRadiation Confirmed.
https://radmon.org/index.php
Rehovot, Central, Israel at coordinates 31.896, 34.803
Radmon+ SBM-20 outdoors 30m above ground
PEDARA, SICILIA, ITALIA at coordinates 37.6217, 15.0458
GQ GMC 300 counter with SBM-20 tube, indoor station
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/10hPa/orthographic=32.40,34.33,1379
So there are a lot of shills on QR that want to yell at anybody who is trying to find objective, verifiable data and consider whether it supports or refutes any hypothesis.
It seems they have an agenda more than I do.
Yet another anon strongly believes it WAS a nuk. Here's their post:
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>>First explosion was caused by Gabriel anti ship missile of Israel. The second explosion was caused by Israeli Delilah missile from F16 carrying 6 kiloton tactical nuclear warhead.
>>plasma ball
>>white color = extreme temps
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>Okay have downloaded and viewed the one day and one week history .csv files. There appears to be a lag in reporting. Not instantly updated online. But rather at intervals. PEDARA, SICILIA, ITALIA is in the UTC +1 time zone. I THINK the time stamps are local time. But if they are in fact UTC then just subtract one hour. Here is the portion of the one week file that has the spike in readings.
>PEDARA, SICILIA, ITALIA
>2020-08-04 14:40:44, 31.5
>2020-08-04 14:41:44, 38
>2020-08-04 14:42:44, 32.5
>2020-08-04 14:43:44, 20.5
>2020-08-04 14:44:44, 29.5
>2020-08-04 14:45:44, 31.5
>2020-08-04 14:46:44, 29
>2020-08-04 14:47:44, 28.5
>2020-08-04 14:48:44, 38.5
>2020-08-04 14:49:44, 53
>2020-08-04 14:50:44, 67.5
>2020-08-04 14:51:44, 545.5
>2020-08-04 14:52:44, 690.5
>2020-08-04 14:53:44, 799
>2020-08-04 14:54:44, 700.5
>2020-08-04 14:55:44, 719.5
>2020-08-04 14:56:44, 697.5
>2020-08-04 14:57:44, 825.5
>2020-08-04 14:58:44, 694.5
>https://radmon.org/UserGraphs/meteopedara/dataweek.csv
Thank you anon.
I like this theory pretty well too.
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>I think the answer to a lot of this is more mundane than nuclear weapons - yet also more damning in the long run, but more difficult to explain. It's not the "aha!" Moment of coming across a grand conspiracy to blow up a warehouse.
>We know hezbollah and related terrorist groups manufacture weapons. Ammonium nitrate is a key compound used in rockets and explosives. A Russian/Ukranian guy could send a ship down to one of these ports (or a captain could just defect with the cargo), the local authorities could seize it (and who knows what the paperwork says they found) - it goes into storage and can then be pilfered from as a strategic supply for manufacturing to produce less-crude IEDs or even some proper munitions grade explosives.
>What we are seeing unfold throughout the middle east with sabotage incidents is likely two prong. First - the media is suddenly reporting on industrial accidents and/or they have entered the public sphere of discussion so as to cloud which events are acts of sabotage and which ones are just run of the mill accidents.
>The second part of it is that there are likely a number of shadow ops being carried out to shut down supply and manufacture for various terrorist groups and it is likely multinational with black ops doing their thing (and it doesn't really matter who your sponsoring nation is in black ops - you run across people who do things and their sponsoring nations give them slack in their leashes).
>It could also be that the whole plot to import fertilizer and store it in such a way was the attack, itself - and all that needed to be done was assign some hapless welders to go do a job and set things in motion.
>I lean more heavily toward the first idea - but the second is also plausible.