Opinion: What Really Happened at the Port of Beirut?
The author explains why he feels certain that explosives, ammunition, and missile fuel, which are highly volatile and flammable substances, were stored by Hezbollah in the Beirut warehouse after being shipped from Iran.
By Mordechai Kedar, BESA Center
The official report of the Lebanese authorities on the massive August 4 explosion at the Port of Beirut is that a warehouse near the water containing 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate exploded. They claim that this material had been in the warehouse for over six years, with the approval of the court, and confirmed this claim with documentation.
With all due respect to the Lebanese authorities, I do not buy this story. I believe that explosives, ammunition, and missile fuel (which are highly volatile and flammable substances) were stored by Hezbollah in this warehouse after being shipped from Iran. There are several reasons why I believe this.
There was a series of at least three explosions, each of which had a different result. The first created a gray column of smoke that remained for several minutes. The second, a column of red smoke, also remained for several minutes, while the third created a white mushroom cloud that dissipated within seconds. This suggests that at least three different materials were stored in that warehouse.
Anyone familiar with how a port operates knows that the front row of warehouses, which are closest to the water, are used for short-term storage. Cargo that is meant to be stored long-term is moved to warehouses further away from the water.
Anyone who ships sensitive cargo and does not want it to be seen, photographed, or targeted by others from air, space, or ground tries to hide it as close as possible to the water. The warehouse that exploded was on the water’s edge.
After Israel (according to foreign sources) attacked the warehouses at Damascus Airport several times, Beirut Seaport replaced Damascus Airport as the destination for Hezbollah’s ammunition and explosives imports from Iran. What used to arrive at Damascus Airport by air is now brought to Beirut by ship. For Hezbollah’s purposes, the warehouses at the port of Beirut have replaced the warehouses of Damascus Airport.
What probably happened on August 4 was an explosion of volatile and flammable materials that were incorrectly stored by Hezbollah for at least a day in a metal, non-airconditioned warehouse. As it is midsummer, temperatures are very high. I believe missile-fuel fumes evaporated from a container and touched the hot wall or ceiling, where they ignited and caused a chain reaction of explosions.
Will Nasrallah Suffer ‘Heart Attack’?
Less than an hour after the explosions, Hezbollah announced that the exploded material was ammonium nitrate. Hezbollah was the first to report it. The reason: Hezbollah was looking for a way to cover up its own negligence and establish an official version that deflected attention away from itself, because no one in the government would dare contradict them.
I suspect that very few people in Lebanon buy Hezbollah’s version of the story. I think Hassan Nasrallah is viewed by the Iranians and, indeed, by his own friends in Hezbollah as personally responsible for this disaster. I would not be surprised to hear that he has suffered a “heart attack” and is thus ending his role as Hezbollah’s secretary general. Perhaps the “heart attack” will be fatal.
Lt. Col. (res.) Dr. Mordechai Kedar is a senior research associate at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies. He served for 25 years in IDF military intelligence specializing in Syria, Arab political discourse, Arab mass media, Islamic groups, and Israeli Arabs, and is an expert on the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist groups.
Note: This is an edited version of a post from the Facebook page of Mordechai Kedar.
Opinion: What Really Happened at the Port of Beirut? https://unitedwithisrael.org/opinion-what-really-happened-at-the-port-of-beirut/
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Deon Barnard • a day ago
Dr Kedar, I agree with you. Ammonium Nitrate, Fertilizer known as LAN, was used as an explosive in my country for open cast mining to open coal seams. However when I visited a mine in the 1980's, the blast foreman explained what he termed "slurry" - the LAN spiked with diesoline to facilitate ignition[of cause, with a detonator]. LAN cannot explode by itself. So, If LAN[ammonium nitrate] of that quantity, was stored in that warehouse, what made it explode???? Just asking
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SAWolf • a day ago
lebanon, just another failed, euro peon fabricated, arabian outpost, thanks frogs. How's your arabian outpost, paris? 70+ years of a state of war, and the lebanese VOTED hezbollah into power. Too bad those 130,000+ missiles aren't medical supplies, huh, nasrallah?
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Martin Brown SAWolf • a day ago
You have that right.
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alpcns . • 12 hours ago
An intelligent article, and it confirms the assessment of quite a few intelligence agencies. Islamofascists were working on bombs there, and these wonderful Allah-approved "weapons specialists" unintentionally blew themselves up.
Trump said basically the same, for which he was of course immediately chastised. Some here on this forum also condemned him for it, because it's almost certainly correct.
And we can't have that, anno domini 2020.
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blog2038 • a day ago • edited
Author, I might agree with some of your stipulations, but lest we forget that "belief" and "proof" are two different things.
Let's see if debris investigation will provide confirmation to your theory.
Another thing that we must not forget is explanation of initial explosion and fire that triggered much bigger one.
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Martin Brown blog2038 • a day ago
Common scenes and knowledge should tell that it was not fertilizer that made this kind of explosion. It was war materiel from Iran to use on Israel. How can you believe the lies from Israels enemy's?
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blog2038 Martin Brown • a day ago • edited
"Common scenes and knowledge should tell that it was not fertilizer that made this kind of explosion"
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6,000,000+ pound of ammonium nitrate could easily do this kind of damage, maybe even more than that.
Oklahoma City truck had about 2000 pounds and had half-leveled big building.
Multiply it by 3000 and ...
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"It was war materiel from Iran to use on Israel"
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Possible and that is why I suggested to wait until debris is investigated.
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Yitzchak Kaduri MESSIAH shalom • an hour ago
ANTIFA and democratic party GOLPE lgbtq: the SATANISTS Bilderberg Rothschild masonry, occult power NWO FED ] Satanic Temple Claims Killing Babies in Abortions is a ‘Protected’ Religious Ceremony https://harbingersdaily com/satanic-temple-claims-killing-babies-in-abortions-is-a-protected-religious-ceremony/ Some of its members attempt to intimidate peaceful pro-life sidewalk counselors through gruesome protests. In 2016, pro-life advocates outside of a Detroit, Michigan Planned Parenthood faced a disturbing scene when a group from the Satanic Temple arrived to counter-protest wearing baby masks and carrying whips. They held a similar protest on Good Friday in 2017.
Years ago, former satanist Zachary King told the Lepanto Institute that the cult performs satanic rituals inside abortion facilities. King said participating in abortions is particularly important for satanists because it is considered the best way to give an offering to Satan.
He explained: “In Satanism, killing something or the death of something is the most effective way of getting your spell accomplished. As far as trying to get Satan’s approval, to give you something that you want, killing something is the best way to go. Killing something is the ultimate offering to Satan, and if you can kill an unborn, that is his ultimate goal.”
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Yitzchak Kaduri MESSIAH shalom Yitzchak Kaduri MESSIAH shalom • an hour ago
President RIVLIN ] io ho scritto bene in inglese questa volta?
chi è che ha inventato e diffuso i satanisti?
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Yitzchak Kaduri MESSIAH shalom • an hour ago
ANTIFA and democratic party GOLPE lgbtq: th SATANISTS ] [ Prior to receiving any anesthetic or sedation, look at your reflection to be reminded of your personhood and your responsibility to yourself. Focus on your intent. Take deep breaths, and make yourself comfortable. When you are ready, say the Third Tenet and Fifth Tenet aloud. You may now undergo the surgery. After the surgery is completed and any anesthetic has worn off, return to your reflection and recite your personal affirmation. Feel doubts dissipating and your confidence growing as you have just undertaken a decision that affirms your autonomy and free will. The religious abortion ritual is now complete.
The satanists said they believe in “abortion on demand” in the first trimester – meaning without regulations, restrictions or informed consent.
They oppose laws that require abortion facilities to show mothers the ultrasounds of their unborn babies or have them listen to their unborn baby’s heartbeat. They oppose waiting periods that ensure mothers have time to consider informed consent information prior to going through with the abortion. And they want to be exempted from laws that require abortion facilities to bury or cremate the remains of aborted babies.
The cult’s plan is to challenge the pro-life laws based on the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), which ensures the government does not unnecessarily interfere with people’s religious freedom.
According to the Friendly Atheist, “By saying abortions in the first trimester are a religious ritual for their members, any states that have their own RFRA laws — and most anti-abortion states have them — would theoretically have to show why their … restrictions should override the Satanists’ religious freedom.”
So far, all of the Satanic Temple’s lawsuits against pro-life laws have failed. In June, a federal appeals court rejected their latest attempt at challenging Missouri’s informed consent law. In 2019, the Missouri Supreme Court dismissed another one of the Satanic Temple’s lawsuits. But every time they lose, they try again with a new approach.
The Satanic Temple is heavily involved in abortion activism in the U.S. Breitbart once described its work as a “pro-abortion crusade to come to the aid of America’s largest abortion provider,” Planned Parenthood.
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Yitzchak Kaduri MESSIAH shalom • 2 hours ago • edited
Satanic Temple Claims Killing Babies in Abortions is a ‘Protected’ Religious Ceremony
https://harbingersdaily com/satanic-temple-claims-killing-babies-in-abortions-is-a-protected-religious-ceremony/ The Satanic Temple admitted proudly Wednesday that, in their belief system, killing an unborn baby in an abortion is a religious ritual similar to communion or baptism for Christians.
“The Satanic Temple is proud to announce its Religious Abortion Ritual, a ceremony rooted in our deeply-held beliefs,” the group said in a video announcement on YouTube. “Thyself is thy master. Hail Satan!”
The disturbing announcement is part of the cult’s new plan to overturn pro-life laws using a religious freedom argument.
“Many states have laws that interfere with our members’ ability to practice their religious beliefs,” said Satanic Temple spokesperson Jane Essex. “No Christian would accept a mandatory waiting period before they can partake in communion. No Christian would tolerate a law that insists state counseling is necessary before someone can be baptized. Our members are justly entitled to religious liberty in order to practice our rituals as well.”
According to the Friendly Atheist blog, the satanists described their surgical abortion ritual in detail Wednesday. They said it involves two tenets of their religion involving bodily autonomy and adherence to “best scientific practices.”
This is how the Satanic Temple described its “ritual” for slaughtering unborn babies in surgical abortions:
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Yitzchak Kaduri MESSIAH shalom • 2 hours ago
end financial system
https://monarchiabancaria blogspot com/
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Yitzchak Kaduri MESSIAH shalom • 2 hours ago • edited
Xi-Jinping from Chyna ] [ Satanist Masons LGBTQ and Islamists will defend Christians and israeli peoples?
they are killing them!
you have to save them! respect fundamental human rights and demand them!
Xi-Jinping ] [ satanisti massoni lgbtq e islamici difenderanno i cristiani? loro li stanno uccidendo!
tu devi salvarli! rispetta i diritti umani fondamentali e pretendili!
The ruling mullahs are selling off the country to China, just as some African governments did. Beijing appears more than happy to make deals with dictators, ignore their human rights abuses and plunder their nations to advance its own global hegemonic ambitions.
I mullah al potere stanno svendendo il paese alla Cina, proprio come hanno fatto alcuni governi africani. Pechino sembra più che felice di fare accordi con i dittatori, ignorare le loro violazioni dei diritti umani e saccheggiare le loro nazioni per promuovere le proprie ambizioni egemoniche globali.
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Yitzchak Kaduri MESSIAH shalom • 2 hours ago
Allah akbar, bum bum bum, sharia bum Erdogan bum jihad bum bum bum, Hezbollah IRAN bum bum bum ]
[ 1. Il primo ha creato una colonna grigia di fumo che è rimasta per diversi minuti.
2. Anche la seconda, una colonna di fumo rosso, è rimasta per diversi minuti,
3. mentre la terza ha creato un fungo bianco che si è dissipato in pochi secondi.
Ciò suggerisce che almeno tre materiali diversi erano immagazzinati in quel magazzino. BUMMMMMMMMMMMMM BBBBUUUUUMMMMMMMMMMM ALLAH
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Peter Joffe • 9 hours ago
Big Mistake, Huge mistake. Hezbollah eliminated thousands of human shields in one massive blast and now they cannot even blame Israel. Israel would not do such a thing so Hezbollah can only blame themselves. It was Hezbollah's bomb storage unit and it needs to be noted that Hezbollah does not need more storage places for their weapons of self destruction.
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Alex Peshansky • 20 hours ago
I suspect the initial explosion was as author stated - of Hezbollah munitions or missile fuel, but the final enormous explosion was of long-stored (and maybe forgotten) fertilizer.
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S. Segal • a day ago
This article is quite accurate. My theory is that Ammonium Nitrate was brought to this port and left there. It was initially reported that the Lebanese government confiscated the load for some odd reason. I believe that Hezbollah discovered the Ammonium Nitrate and planned to infiltrate Israel and use it as a weapon of mass destruction. I also believe that they were preparing to ship it to Haifa or Tel Aviv when an accidental explosion occurred. It was easy to ship it down the Mediterranean outside of Israeli waters and then make a mad dash to one of these ports and be either detonated by a timer, set to explode, or by a suicide bomber. Ammonium Nitrate should be considered as the poor mans atomic bomb. Israel should be on high-alert believing that Hezbollah may attack to hide intelligence that will link them to this foiled plot against Israel.
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HaroldT • a day ago
This email should be posted onto every Lebanese site so that as many people as passable can read it.
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Avi Haaetz • a day ago
Surely explosives owned by Hezbollah. Who blew them up? The end of G-D. G-D makes no mistakes.
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Martin Brown Avi Haaetz • a day ago
It's to bad the Israels don't accept God's help and want to bite the hand of God who is doing what they pray for.. Giving aid to their enemy is self denial of their Gods help. What a bunch of fools. .
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lesrun5k Avi Haaetz • a day ago
Amen,i agree.
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Flik Amos • a day ago
sounds logical
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aonghais • a day ago
With all due respect to the author of this article, I do not buy his story. Expert witnesses who provide Court evidence abroad have stated there were two explosions - the initial mild fire followed by that of
ammonium nitrate that produced the white cloud similar to a nuclear explosion in physical appearance and the reddish brown smoke as a result of the nitrogen dioxide being produced as a result of the decomposition
of the ammonium nitrate over a long period of time, ie the years that the ammonium nitrate had been stored since it was confiscated.
Anyone using explosives would take adequate precautions for their storage but storage of fertiliser such as ammonium nitrate does not require such high level of precaution.
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Martin Brown aonghais • a day ago
You speak Bull sh*t. These are Leb' with a ignorant Government.
aonghais Martin Brown • a day ago • edited
We are all entitled to our own opinions and beliefs. I gave mine, as understood from what I have studied.
Incidentally it should be "an ignorant" and not "a ignorant" and government does not require a capital "G".
Opinion: What Really Happened at the Port of Beirut? https://unitedwithisrael.org/opinion-what-really-happened-at-the-port-of-beirut/
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