Hello Kostie,

 LL>> A terrorist organization, such as Hezbollah, certainly should have
 LL>> known better than to continually building store a 2,750-ton stockpile

 KM> Very probably, but in my experience if a given problem can be reasonably
 KM> explained by ignorance or incompetence, that's more often than not the
 KM> reality.

At appears that, for whatever reason, or for no reason at all,
they kept dumping, and dumping, and dumping ammonium nitrate, for
almost 50 years, at the same spot, until somebody set off a spark
and things went .

There is video of the explosion in Beirut. There is also video of
explosions caused by tactical nukes. It is almost impossible to tell
the difference. Maybe impossible. How can anybody know for sure if
it really was ammonium nitrate that caused the explosion?

In comparison, McVeigh's "OKBOMB" had 3.5 short tons (3,200 kg
or 7,000 pounds) of ammonium nitrate. Blew up one federal building,
killing 168 men, women and children. Along with the truck holding
the bomb.

--Lee

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