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The IDF in its statement also notes the deadly 2020 Beirut port blast, which occurred after some 2,750 tons of ammonium ...
Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim, who is reported to have connections with the Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group, has previously ...
was caused by a fire that ignited nearly 3,000 tons of ammonium nitrate stored in a port warehouse. Lebanon’s military gets sweeping powers after Beirut blast Lebanon's Parliament on Thursday ...
Report by Lara El Hachem, English adaptation by Karine Keuchkerian Former Interior Minister Nohad Machnouk described his ...
even areas outside of Beirut. Ammonium nitrate has a number of different uses, but the two most common are as an agricultural fertilizer and as an explosive. It is highly explosive when it comes ...
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Former General Security chief Major General Abbas Ibrahim appeared before Judge Tarek Bitar, the lead investigator in the ...
The ammonium nitrate was taken off and discharged into the port's warehouses due to the risk of leaving it on board. The last time ship trackers picked up the vessel's location was Beirut in ...
On Aug. 4, 2020, hundreds of tons of ammonium nitrate detonated in a Beirut Port warehouse, killing at least 218 people, injuring more than 6,000 and devastating large swaths of the capital.
Former Lebanese interior minister Nohad Machnouk testifies in court for the first time regarding the Beirut port explosion of ...
docked in Beirut in September 2013 when it had technical problems while sailing from Georgia to Mozambique with 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate. It said that, upon inspection, the vessel was ...
The probe into the explosion caused by thousands of tons of improperly stored ammonium nitrate at the port has stalled for ...