Beruit Blast

[macdon02]

A fireworks depot near an AN storage facility protected by a concrete storage terminal likely full.

A lot of coincidences coming in.

Anyway there was a similar explosion some 60 yrs ago in Texas just about the same amount of AN.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_disaster

Not totally out of the ordinary for a ship to leak diesel into a hold to create an explosive, but in the middle of the desert are they really going to store uncoated 34 in a confined space? The chances of this being a fireworks/fert "accident" are more then a million:1. OHSA doesn't have much say in Lebanon, but they are not complete idiots. Anfo needs an accelerant, a concrete divider will provide more then enough separation, according to my 10 years experience with explosives in the oilfield and beaverdams .... is a really big stretch in idiocy. But having said that, it's only arms of govt that purchase in Lebanon, no private importers. Maybe they did store "Big Mabel" with 34?

[sumdumguy]

Trump talked to army core engineers and they believe it could have been a bomb.

[jazz]

Was there a crater in OK city? Strange result from a surface explosion.