re: 4K Ultra Slow Motion Footage of Beirut Blast

Thats insane footage

No pandemic concerns for that section of town for the time being.

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Explosives expert claims Beirut explosion was caused by burning military missiles - not ammonium nitrate

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Explosives expert claims Beirut explosion that killed 160 was caused by burning military missiles - not ammonium nitrate – because the blast cloud was orange not yellow

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An explosives expert has claimed the Beirut blast was caused by burning military missiles - not ammonium nitrate.

[quote]Danilo Coppe, 56 and from Parmesan in Italy, is one of the country's leading explosive experts.

He believes the August 4 blast, which killed 160 people, wounded 6,000 and destroyed 300,000 homes, was not caused by ammonium nitrate because the colour of the cloud was orange.The explosives expert, nicknamed Mr. Dynamite, explained that when ammonium nitrate detonates, it generates an unmistakable yellow cloud.

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'There should have been a catalyst, because otherwise it wouldn't all have exploded together.

You can clearly see a brick orange column tending to bright red, typical of lithium participation. Which in the form of lithium-metal is the propellant for military missiles. I think there were armaments there,' he said.

Mr Coppe explained that he thought there was a first, larger explosion, which may have started a fire where the ammunition was stored.

He claimed that this would have then spread to 'where there was some high explosive contained in rockets or missiles'.

The explosion was believed to be a fifth of the size of Hiroshima was so enormous that it altered the shape of not only of Beirut's skyline but even of its Mediterranean coastline.

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’ a little more serious, you gotta do your homework before you come here with it’s was a laser from outer space!’.

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Except that isn't what I said. I said it very well could be a trick of light (lens flare). The reason I brought it up was because the Lebanese Government had announced they were investigating as to whether or not there were any birds in the sky at the time.

I said what I said about the possible "laser" because if the Lebanese were thinking it came from the sky, it wasn't a missile. That video makes it abundantly clear there was no missile. But the lens flare aspect of it was intriguing. Glad someone spotted it right off.

I was far more interested in the "fireworks factory" part of the video. That wasn't no fireworks factory. It was an ammo cache. And what do ya know? The Lebanese Government has announced they're all resigning.

Forget about the satellite laser beam part of it. As I said right there in the OP, it could have been (and was) a trick of light that makes it appear that way. Bigger deal in all of this is that they appear to have been caught out in the gun running operation that was allegedly being ran through that port. Otherwise, why would they all be resigning?

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These Filmed on iPhone commercials are intense.

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Yeah.
As someone else said, it's very impressive footage for an iPhone.

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Bigger deal in all of this is that they appear to have been caught out in the gun running operation that was allegedly being ran through that port. Otherwise, why would they all be resigning?

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Because they've had a multitude of crises the last couple of years, including a major financial crisis that wiped out the savings of a bunch of Lebanese citizens. The notion that the whole government would resign in response to a gun-running operation is so idiotic, as the government has multiple factions. If it was a gun-running operation, then why wouldn't they blame those responsible, as it would be extremely politically expedient to have a scapegoat?

Anon breaks down the video:

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There aren't any lower level pawns to pin it on because it was being ran through the upper echelons of Government?

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Christ you know nothing about Lebanese politics. The multiple factions can't even organize trash collection, and suddenly are on the same side with gun-running?

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fingered in a Ukrainian gun smuggling ring where the Lebanese leaders are likely running guns to their own damn enemies?

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Who are Lebanon's enemies?

That blowed up real good!

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Government to resign en masse

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Just the PM, who is appointed by the President, who did not resign. The separation of powers in the Lebanese government is such that there is a difference between Head of State (The President) and Head of Government (The PM), and the resignation of the PM means the Government has resigned. You want to make it seem like a larger event, but it is only the PM who is resigning. Aoun is still in power, and the formation of a new government will require new elections, as is the case in every parliamentary system. Saying "en masse" to add gravitas to your claim doesn't capture the reality, as I don't think any individual ministers resigned other than the PM.

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If guns are being ran through there, coming from Ukraine, as I suspect, they're likely going to everyone in the region.

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So they their going to sell guns to everyone? Why wouldn't individual countries just buy them through above-board sources? That you don't think they are going to a specific buyer makes me even more skeptical of this. The Syrians can get weapons from Russia, the PMF and Hezbollah are supplied by Iran, Turkey has its own native defense industry that it is trying to use, and the various other factions can get guns through the Gulf or the US. Even the paramilitaries want standardization of equipment. The notion that this supposed cache was going to supply everyone is, frankly, extremely stupid.

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Do you think the Lebanese people would be pissed to find out that guns were being ran through Beirut into Syria?

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Some would and some wouldn't. Considering the entire Lebanese border is controlled by the Syrian Army on the other side, I'm extremely skeptical that any group but the Syrian government would use Beirut as a port, which begs the question of why they would need Ukrainian weapons.