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2020-12-30 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

FBI Found Port Blast Caused by 500 Tons of Fertilizer, Says Diab

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Posted by trailing wife 2020-12-30 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top
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#1 I could see this as a "possibility" also.
Google the April 16, 1947,
Port of Texas City, Texas,
Galveston Bay.
An start comparing Pictures... many will see a lot of similarities.

With that said. The detonation process being used to explain the Beirut Port explosion leaves some EOD logic gaps.

Posted by NN2N1 2020-12-30 06:50|| 2020-12-30 06:50|| Front Page Top

#2 To get what amounts to a version of a high explosive out of a low explosive, you need confinement. See the Boston bombings. They used black powder in kitchen pressure cookers.
When an unconfined low-order explosive is lit, you get a "whoosh". A fiery, smoking "whoosh". So when you get a defective firework and it fizzles...don't stomp on it or you'll confine it and blow a hole in your foot.
It's a good possibility that some of the harbor stash was confined, possibly by having tons more sitting on top of it. If that went up as an explosive, the outer layers would have "whooshed" as in flashed to fire--damaging as hell--but without an explosive's overpressure (shockwave).
Back a few years, I saw a couple of speculations that McVeigh could have done more damage in OKC if he'd figured out how to get the total energy in his load to explode. Possibly that's the issue here.

Posted by Richard Aubrey 2020-12-30 09:39|| 2020-12-30 09:39|| Front Page Top

#3 I like the fact that the FBI found something.

Posted by SteveS 2020-12-30 13:42|| 2020-12-30 13:42|| Front Page Top

#4 ^ New guy, already reprimanded

Posted by Frank G 2020-12-30 13:49|| 2020-12-30 13:49|| Front Page Top

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