Middle East Thread

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

5 minutes ago, Nummer Neunzehn said:

Yeah, man. Not a patch on that one in China a while back, though. 

Was that the chemical plant?

[Section_31]

I reckon that's a thermobarric bomb, big non nuclear effort that explodes the air. The Russians churn them out like St John's Market churn out blag Reeboks.

[Numero Veinticinco]

17 minutes ago, VERBAL DIARRHEA said:

Was that the chemical plant?

Yeah mate, unreal

[KMD7]

3 hours ago, Bjornebye said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fucking hell. Took a load of other buildings out with it as well. Horrifying

[Rico1304]

2 hours ago, Section_31 said:

I reckon that's a thermobarric bomb, big non nuclear effort that explodes the air. The Russians churn them out like St John's Market churn out blag Reeboks.

It’s not, they don’t work like that. 

[johnsusername]

4 hours ago, Bjornebye said:

Wallasey when SD gets negged 

30 people died from the explosion but they would have died anyway of other causes so the death toll is actually zero. 

[Strontium]

Officials are saying it was nearly 3,000 tonnes of ammonium nitrate that had been stored improperly for six years.

 

Do we now understand why it's important that countries like these don't get nukes?

[Rico1304]

2 minutes ago, Stront19m Dog™ said:

Officials are saying it was nearly 3,000 tonnes of ammonium nitrate that had been stored improperly for six years.

 

Do we now understand why it's important that countries like these don't get nukes?

Aaron Bastani said it was a thermobaric bomb, implied it was the Americans and then deleted his tweet. 

[Strontium]

2 minutes ago, Rico1304 said:

Aaron Bastani said it was a thermobaric bomb, implied it was the Americans and then deleted his tweet. 

 

Oh, the conspiracy nuts are having a field day. It's all Israel's doing, apparently.

[Pidge]

1 minute ago, Rico1304 said:

Aaron Bastani said it was a thermobaric bomb, implied it was the Americans and then deleted his tweet. 

Just grist to the mill for him, isn't it? A simple reflex to twist things to his agenda without any evidence whatsoever. Utter grifter.

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

It wasn't Israel. Or America. 

 

A lesson learned today. Don't piss off the pensioners. 

[Guest]

10 minutes ago, Nelly-Torres said:

It wasn't Israel. Or America. 

 

A lesson learned today. Don't piss off the pensioners. 

Imagine what they would do if they denied slots for online shopping?

[Section_31]

28 minutes ago, Stront19m Dog™ said:

 

Oh, the conspiracy nuts are having a field day. It's all Israel's doing, apparently.

To be fair large unexplained explosions in Beirut rather than, say, Dorset will raise suspicions.

[Numero Veinticinco]

36 minutes ago, Stront19m Dog™ said:

Officials are saying it was nearly 3,000 tonnes of ammonium nitrate that had been stored improperly for six years.

 

Do we now understand why it's important that countries like these don't get nukes?

I dunno about you, but this doesn’t change my view on who should or should not have nukes. 

[General Dryness]

78 dead and up to 4000 injured. One hell of a bang that.

 

[Code]

There must be hundreds of deads.

[Jhinge Machha]

yeah no way the death toll is less than a 100.  It looks like it pretty much flattened many buildings. 

 

https://twitter.com/RangeelaDesi/status/1290771773827375104?s=20

[Neil G]

1 hour ago, Stront19m Dog™ said:

Officials are saying it was nearly 3,000 tonnes of ammonium nitrate that had been stored improperly for six years.

 

Do we now understand why it's important that countries like these don't get nukes?

Yep, just as well no major accidents resulting from industrial negligence have ever occurred in countries that have nuclear weapons.

[General Dryness]

1 hour ago, Code said:

There must be hundreds of deads.

78 confirmed at last count. Will very likely be far more though.

[Jose Jones]

7 hours ago, Stront19m Dog™ said:

Officials are saying it was nearly 3,000 tonnes of ammonium nitrate that had been stored improperly for six years.

 

Do we now understand why it's important that countries like these don't get nukes?

I too remember those hundreds of posters demanding Lebanon be allowed to develop nuclear weapons.  They must be feeling pretty stupid now!

[tokyojoe]

Whe the civil war was going on artillery noise could be heard in Cyprus, it's fairly close to Beirut. The east coast anyway.

[Mudface]

8 hours ago, Stront19m Dog™ said:

Officials are saying it was nearly 3,000 tonnes of ammonium nitrate that had been stored improperly for six years.

 

Do we now understand why it's important that countries like these don't get nukes?

Absolutely.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_disaster

 

The Texas City disaster was an industrial accident that occurred on April 16, 1947, in the Port of Texas City, Texas, at Galveston Bay. It was the deadliest industrial accident in U.S. history, and one of history's largest non-nuclear explosions. A mid-morning fire started on board the French-registered vessel SS Grandcamp (docked in the port), and detonated her cargo of about 2,300 tons (about 2,086 metric tons) of ammonium nitrate.[1] This started a chain reaction of fires and explosions in other ships and nearby oil-storage facilities, ultimately killing at least 581 people, including all but one member of the Texas City fire department.[2]

The disaster drew the first class action lawsuit against the United States government, on behalf of 8,485 victims, under the 1946 Federal Tort Claims Act.

 

 

[Jairzinho]

20 minutes ago, Mudface said:

Absolutely.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_disaster

 

 

 

 

 

No, not like those.

[Mudface]

1 minute ago, Jairzinho said:

No, not like those.

Ah, just them, then.

[Jairzinho]

5 minutes ago, Mudface said:

Ah, just them, then.

Yes, you know the type.