FBI Report: No More Than 552 Tonnes Of Ammonium Nitrate Exploded In Beirut On August 4th

  • Date: 31-Jul-2021
  • Source: The961
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  • Country:Lebanon
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FBI Report: No More Than 552 Tonnes Of Ammonium Nitrate Exploded In Beirut On August 4th

No more than 552 tonnes of ammonium nitrate exploded at the Port of Beirut on August 4th, 2020, according to an FBI report released in October. The report, viewed recently by Reuters, says that only a fifth of the ammonium nitrate shipment that had arrived in Beirut in 2013 exploded last year. The document does not explain what might have happened to the remaining 2,754 tonnes of the explosive material. An unnamed senior Lebanese official familiar with the FBI’s findings […]

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No more than 552 tonnes of ammonium nitrate exploded at the Port of Beirut on August 4th, 2020, according to an FBI report released in October. The report, viewed recently by Reuters, says that only a fifth of the ammonium nitrate shipment that had arrived in Beirut in 2013 exploded last year. The document does not explain what might have happened to the remaining 2,754 tonnes of the explosive material. An unnamed senior Lebanese official familiar with the FBI’s findings […]