Who Owned the Chemicals That Blew up Beirut?

August 14th, 2020

Via: Reuters:

In the murky story of how a cache of highly explosive ammonium nitrate ended up on the Beirut waterfront, one thing is clear — no one has ever publicly come forward to claim it.

There are many unanswered questions surrounding last week’s huge, deadly blast in the Lebanese capital, but ownership should be among the easiest to resolve.

Clear identification of ownership, especially of a cargo as dangerous as that carried by the Moldovan-flagged Rhosus when it sailed into Beirut seven years ago, is fundamental to shipping, the key to insuring it and settling disputes that often arise.

But Reuters interviews and trawls for documents across 10 countries in search of the original ownership of this 2,750-tonne consignment instead revealed an intricate tale of missing documentation, secrecy and a web of small, obscure companies that span the globe.

“Goods were being transported from one country to another, and they ended up in a third country with nobody owning the goods. Why did they end up here?” said Ghassan Hasbani, a former Lebanese deputy prime minister and opposition figure.

2 Responses to “Who Owned the Chemicals That Blew up Beirut?”

  1. djc says:

    Check out the following for the culprits …
    https://www.veteranstoday.com/2020/08/14/dissecting-the-beirut-coverup-ammonium-nitrate-not-explosive-and-lebanon-was-nuked-before/

    Yes folks, another mini-nuke does the job for the psychopaths.

  2. Kevin says:

    It wasn’t a nuke because the EMP would have destroyed all the phones that took the videos of it.

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

    Nuclear explosions produce a short and extremely intense surge through a wide spectrum of electromagnetic radiation, an electromagnetic pulse (EMP), neutron radiation, and a flux of both primary and secondary charged particles. In case of a nuclear war they pose a potential concern for all civilian and military electronics.

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