AN and KN has often (actually probably mostly) been used by Hezbollah militants
for crude rockets used for attacks on Israel – that’s matter of public record.
Whether some of this stuff was destined for such use will likely never be a
matter for public record, but it’s not a ridiculously tenuous conclusion to
draw.
Troy
From: arocket-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:arocket-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On ;
Behalf Of Tyler Adkison
Sent: Wednesday, 5 August 2020 1:15 PM
To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [AR] Re: Beirut blast due to ammonium nitrate???
With all respect, this stuff is dirt cheap and readily available with the
majority of the cost just being transporting it. If you wanted to make
munitions, you wouldn't need 2000 tons. This stuff is literally used a
fertilizer and in most countries, you could just walk into a farm supply store
and drive out with a truckload of it. In the US you need paperwork for large
amounts, but in most countries you do not. If this was some sort of exotic
chemical I could see speculation, but this is AN. It's all over the place.
On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 8:10 PM Henry Vanderbilt <hvanderbilt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:hvanderbilt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote:
Apparently lost track - or, possibly, persuaded to lose track by a powerful
local group with an interest in having that stockpile available but
unattributable?
How likely? Not enough data. But it's best to at least glance at all the
possibilities.
Henry
On 8/4/2020 7:59 PM, George Herbert wrote:
It’s been sitting there for six years. Ukrainian ship that was doing something
dodgy and the Lebanese confiscated it. And put it in a temporary safe place on
the harbor and then apparently lost track.
I’ve been doing open source intelligence analysis on the explosion all day on
Twitter with the Middlebury OSINT team.... it’s clearly sadly stupidity and
ignorance.
-George
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On Aug 4, 2020, at 6:59 PM, Henry Spencer <mailto:hspencer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
<hspencer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
