Lebanon is one of General Wesley Clark’s notorious 7 countries in 5 years:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNt7s_Wed_4 , as Pepe Escobar points out: Who Profits from the Beirut Tragedy http://thesaker.is/who-profits-from-the-beirut-tragedy/ https://asiatimes.com/2020/08/who-profits-from-the-beirut-blast/ along with a surprisingly identical bomb after effect of a new bomb tested by Israel in Syria in January 2020: https://www.voltairenet.org/article210672.html Israël détruit Beyrouth-Est avec une arme nouvelle par Thierry Meyssan [in French - see escobar's piece for a summaly in English, but see that link for images comparing and showing the high similarity of the blast effects of these two bombs] Speaking of wicked webs... Lots more datails in the Escobar's "Who profits" article. On Wed, Aug 05, 2020 at 11:22:09AM +1000, Zig the N.g wrote: > Our collective condolences to the (yet to be assessed) hundreds of Lebanese > who have recently lost their lives. > > > 'It's Like Hiroshima': Terrifying Seismic Shock From Blast Devastates > Beirut > > https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/did-nuke-just-go-beirut-terrifying-mystery-blast-shockwave-filmed-over-lebanon > > ... Lebanese Prime Minister says Beirut explosions caused by an > estimated 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate left unsecured for 6 years in a > warehouse > > > > > > <BE WARNED: The following is a RANT, speculation, possibly entirely > hypothetical postulations of an intense, sad and altogether unfortunate > situation> > > There is something remarkably short sighted about the Israelis - they seem to > imagine that the following are simultaneously true: > > 1) That Americans will believe that "securing the Lebanese-Israeli border" > is the USA's #1 national priority. > > 2) That creating such "friendly" relations with __Israel's immediate > geographical neighbours__, is somehow a good thing. > > > Go figure, muh j.gger wh.iggers… > > And a message to the Lebanese: it seems you may have missed the memo that > EVERYBODY needs to clean up their back yard. As in "Are you firetrucking > serious, you _really_ left 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate left unsecured for > 6 years in a warehouse" ???!!?! > > Speaking about off your nut, I guess you decided that leaving such low > hanging fruit around was too much effort to do anything about? > > > > A note to the entire fricken world, since everybody seems to have missed > the memo: > > CLEAN UP YOUR BACK YARD ALREADY!! > > (2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate, in ONE warehouse, in downtown $MAJOR_CITY?? > Please! This is nothing but negligence of the first order!) > > > > and before you can even say "boo", Trump is running round like an Israeli > parliamentarian on crack desperately trying to implicate America in "securing > the Israeli-Lebanese relationship": > > Trump Calls Beirut Explosion "A Terrible Attack - A Bomb Of Some Kind" > After Briefed By Generals > > https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/trump-says-beirut-explosion-attack-bomb-some-kind-after-briefed-generals > > .. Trump says military experts tell him Beirut blast a 'bomb of some > kind'. > > .. Trump said he had been briefed by “our great generals” and that they > “seem to feel” that the explosion was not an accident. > > .. "It was a bomb of some kind, yes" — he emphasized when questioned on > it. > > > > How can such statements of "feeling" be useful on almost any view? Sometimes > Trump ought consider that when he speaks WITH HIS GENERALS, perhaps he should > ACTUALLY ASK THEM what they think might be worth communicating to the public, > BEFORE communicating with the public. If he really believes that they are > "great generals", surely he should seek their advice a little more? One > imagines that the generals may finally have had a wake up call that Trump > tends to tweet out the other ear, what comes in the one ear... better late > than never I guess (that the generals realise Trump's nature). > > > > At least both Isreal and Hesbollah seem to be both in agreement _and_ in > totally unequivocal denial that this was any sort of "security related > incident": > > Israeli military sources tell Israeli 10 News reporter: > Israel didn't bomb Beirut. > The explosion did not occur in a Hezbollah weapons depot. > This was not a security-related event. > https://t.co/hgDXFVxZdH > — Elizabeth Tsurkov (@Elizrael) August 4, 2020 > > > There is certainly no doubt that a few thousand tons of "ammonium nitrate > left unsecured for 6 years" may well have experienced degredation in the > storage and or electrical cables in the warehouse - on this planet we have > these things called rats, and mice, and other critters which sometimes gnaw > through electrical cables (and data cables, and some cables which carry both > power and data) and cause problems, also vessels (especially metal, but also > plastic) can have problems too (sufficiently hungry rats do gnaw right > through plastic if they think there's a chance of food on the other side of > that plastic). Also, a piece of degraded metal which falls, may strike other > metal and cause a spark. >
