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75. The Explosion (Port of Beirut disaster)

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The Lebanese Government's Investigation of the Port Explosion in Beirut

There are troubling new allegations about that deadly port explosion in Beirut. Sources have told the Guardian newspaper that dozens of bags of fireworks were being stored in the same warehouse as a stockpile of ammonium nitrate, which acts as an accelerant in a fire. There were also jugs of oil, hydrochloric acid and kerosene stored there too. The Lebanese people had seen it all before: A few lower-level political lackeys would take the fall.

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