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Explosion pics from Lebanon (enhanced still from video)
Beirut blast area housed highly-explosive materials, says Lebanese internal security chief
Lebanon’s internal security chief Abbas Ibrahim said that a massive blast in Beirut’s port area occurred in a section housing highly-explosive materials, and not explosive as had been reported earlier by the official state news agency NNA.
Updated: Aug 04, 2020 23:02 IST
Lebanon’s internal security chief Abbas Ibrahim said that a massive blast in Beirut’s port area occurred in a section housing highly-explosive materials, and not explosive as had been reported earlier by the official state news agency NNA.
Speaking to reporters in televised remarks, he declined to speculate about the cause of the explosion in Lebanon’s capital, saying “we cannot preempt investigations”.
Georges Kettaneh, the president of the Lebanese Red Cross, referred to “hundreds of wounded” in a statement on Lebanese LBC television, adding: “We are overwhelmed by phone calls.”
The powerful explosions that rocked the port of Beirut on Tuesday left “people dead and injured”, the Lebanon’s National News Agency reported.
Georges Kettaneh, the president of the Lebanese Red Cross, referred to “hundreds of wounded” in a statement on Lebanese LBC television, adding: “We are overwhelmed by phone calls.”
Lebanon’s Prime Minister Hasan Diab has declared Wednesday a day of mourning, and President Michel Aoun called for “urgent” defence council talks.
https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/lebanon-s-capital-beirut-blast-area-housed-highly-explosive-materials-says-lebanese-internal-security-chief/story-6nJklC7beGki1njiZFkOmO.html
Is this E trying to be the new Q? "The Friend" is so gay, lol.
Agreed. Most likely an accident. Dock area where there was storage of explosives and possibly chemicals (according to Reuters). What was the tall dark building in the middle though?
Okay, ridiculous. I thought I missed something. Could that steinlarp as well? My rule is to extremely doubt anyone claiming to have "inside" info. Because I do know people with inside info and they would never put it on Twatter, lol.
Fox reported sodium nitrate was at the explosion site.
Sodium nitrate appears as a white crystalline solid. Noncombustible but accelerates the burning of combustible materials. If large quantities are involved in fire or the combustible material is finely divided an explosion may result. May explode under prolonged exposure to heat or fire. Toxic oxides of nitrogen are produced in fires. Used in solid propellants, explosives, fertilizers, and for many other uses.
Sodium nitrate is the inorganic nitrate salt of sodium. It has a role as a fertilizer. It is an inorganic sodium salt and an inorganic nitrate salt.
https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Sodium-nitrate
Secretary-General Of Lebanon's Kataeb Party Critically Wounder In Beirut Blast - Reports
MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 04th August, 2020) Nazar Najarian, the secretary-general of Lebanon's Kataeb political party, was critically injured as a result of a Tuesday powerful blast in Beirut's port, the Al Arabiya tv channel reported.
According to the local Lebanon24 news outlet, Nazarian fell into a coma. Doctors are currently treating the politician.
Hundreds of people were wounded in the powerful blast, according to Lebanese health authorities.
https://www.urdupoint.com/en/world/secretary-general-of-lebanons-kataeb-party-c-992884.html
Kataeb Party
is a Christian Democratic political party in Lebanon. The party played a major role in the Lebanese Civil War (1975–1990). In decline in the late 80's and 90's, the party slowly re-emerged in the early 2000's as a modern, youthful and developed party. It is currently part of the March 14 Alliance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kataeb_Party
Jill Biden goes to the grocery store or is hanging out "on the street"? I call BS!!!
Fire safety site says:
Natural materials such as unfinished wood will change to tan or brown colored smoke, whereas plastics and painted surfaces appear to be grey in color. However, black smoke can appear grey when it is mixed with moisture from other heated materials.
Birds, I think, there is a video where you can make out the shape and wings quite clearly. Any drone strike or projectile would be bigger and faster I think?
FBI raids offices at downtown One Cleveland Center building tied to Ukrainian oligarch
Updated 1:32 PM; Today 10:18 AM
CLEVELAND, Ohio — The FBI on Tuesday raided the Cleveland offices of a real estate company tied to a Ukrainian oligarch that owns several downtown buildings.
FBI spokeswoman Vicki Anderson said agents were searching the offices of the Optima Management Group in One Cleveland Center at East 9th Street and St. Clair Avenue. Optima is a conglomerate of companies across the United States that has interests in real estate in Cleveland, including One Cleveland Center, the 55 Public Square building and the Westin Cleveland Downtown.
Optima’s offices are visible from an entrance and windows on the side of One Cleveland Center, and on Tuesday multiple agents were seen carrying and moving computers, boxes and other items in the office. The plaza in front of the building was otherwise relatively quiet.
Anderson said agents also executed search warrants at an office in Miami.
Federal authorities in Cleveland have been conducting a wide-ranging probe involving Ukrainian oligarch Igor Kolomoisky that has been ongoing for quite some time. Kolomoisky is a principal of the Privat Group, a large Ukrainian business company, and principals of the company are also part of Optima.
Optima had a much larger presence in Cleveland about a decade ago when it bought several buildings under the leadership of executive Chaim Schochet. Its presence in Northeast Ohio has dwindled in recent years.
Optima also controlled Warren Steel Holdings, a mill northwest of Youngstown that closed in 2016.
Kolomoisky and a fellow Ukrainian billionaire formed PrivatBank in the early 1990s. It became one of the Ukraine’s key financial institutions, according to Forbes. The Ukrainian government nationalized the bank in 2016 after an investigation suggested there was large-scale fraud over a decade-long period, Forbes reported.
The financial news outlet places Kolomoisky’s net worth at about $1 billion. He remains a complicated political figure in his home country. He is a former governor of Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region.
Published reports said that Kolomoisky had refused to set up a meeting with President Donald Trump’s ally Rudy Giuliani and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in an attempt to dig up dirt against Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden last year.
Kolomoisky’s attorney Michael Sullivan could not be reached for comment.
https://www.cleveland.com/court-justice/2020/08/fbi-raids-offices-at-downtown-one-cleveland-center-building-tied-to-ukrainian-oligarch.html
Good. Not to many Mask Police around TX that I've seen anyway. Nearly everyone grumbles in the parking lot about having to wear them. It's hot as hell and we're just too pissed off to care. Hang it around your ear or wrist and if anyone says anything just say you took it off for a second to take a drink of water, just like Dr. Fauci does.