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Wed 5 Aug, 2020 07:07 am
...turns out to be a "terrorist attack"...or an attack by Israel on Hezbollah munitions stockpiles...
...there is no way Trump should have called it a "terrorist attack" in that phony "daily briefing."
That is not the way things are done in a government being run correctly, which obviously our government isn't.
Trump is an idiot...and apologies are due to people who actually are idiots for that comparison.
As I said...he may have been just shooting off his mouth (he does lots of that), but if he was sharing some piece of intelligence he had been given...
...THAT WAS NOT THE WAY IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN SHARED.
@Frank Apisa,
It looks like badly stored fertiliser in a warehouse. Apparently it had been there since 2014.
Someone will be held responsible, probably some low ranking menial while the real villains get off.
This is Trump all over shooting his stupid mouth off before the facts are known.
@izzythepush,
You can tell Trumps lying if his mouth is moving.
@izzythepush,
This is an ag/industrial condition more common than you think. In the San Juaquin Valley of Calif there were many Am Nitrate storage areas for use during planting (They would ue it to give a "boost" to [routing seeds and for growing leaf crops. Theyve since changed form of the Nitrate by storing in liquid holding tanks.
@farmerman,
I know, it was the explosive of choice of the IRA for some time and police would spend time advising farmers on the best way to store it.
It's trump being trump... that's what his comments are.
It's only just happened, a proper investigation doesn't just take one or two days.
In any case, it's an odd choice of target for a "terrorist attack" being in the port rather than the CBD of Beirut. And if there is a lot of highly explosive material stored in the same location, then not sure you need to be an expert to figure out that if you mix that with fire, you get an explosion. I've also read that there was a report made when the same warehouse was inspected saying that it could "blow up all of Beirut" - looks like they weren't far off in saying that.
It's a shame that this needs to be made political, when it could (and seems to be) be just pure negligence. People should know by now not to get their "facts" from trump, and be smarter enough to question whatever he says... when are people going to learn?
What is, or was, that massive looking structure seen in many photos of the explosion?
@InfraBlue,
I think it was a grain silo and that big pile of what looks like sand is spoiled grain.
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