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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Baron, do you want to check in on what you think it is?
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Lebanese "security" said it was a warehouse ("Warehouse 12") full of fireworks and chemicals. That's a lot of fireworks if so. Could be industrial/chemical. Maybe an ammo dump or ammo manufacturing facility. There was a grain elevator right there and dust from that would contribute to the explosion. I think it's quite reasonable that the fire started at a fireworks storage facility - you can see/hear in one video what could be fireworks exploding - and then something else blew. That explosion was too big for fireworks in my opinion.
The plume almost looks like a Davy Crockett nuke. Not saying that was what exploded, just trying to put some context to the size of that blast.
There is no evidence right now to suggest it was an attack (from Israel, for example). That is, no airplane or missiles tracked. However, Evan Davies from BBC interviewed Layla Melana from France 24 who lives a few blocks from the explosion and she stated that moments before she heard an incredibly loud jet at a "very, very low altitude". She looked up and there was a "blinding flash". All windows "went" immediately; an entire apt destroyed and "doors blown off hinges everywhere". "Whole building and whole street in same condition."
"At the moment I feel that we must [assume a plane]."
So, all kinds of narratives out there.
https://twitter.com/user/status/1290669848872333312
https://twitter.com/user/status/1290675205229051906
https://twitter.com/user/status/1290678590133030918
Quite the damage:
https://twitter.com/user/status/1290679331052826624
https://twitter.com/user/status/1290667092488986624
https://twitter.com/user/status/1290678776557338626
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https://twitter.com/user/status/1290684774756102144