Beirut Explosion: "It was clearly a military explosive"
Former CIA operative Robert Baer said videos of Tuesday's blast showed that while ammonium nitrate may have been present in the warehouse, he does not believe it was responsible for the massive explosion that ensued.
"It was clearly a military explosive," he said. "It was not fertilizer like ammonium nitrate. I'm quite sure of that."
"You look at that orange ball (of fire), and it's clear, like I said, a military explosive."
Also, a former explosives investigator for the US Department of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, Tony May, revelled his concerns about the explosion to CNN.
"I've done a lot of accident investigations with the government, both national and international, and it is clear to me that this was a large number of explosives or energetic material stored in a building that caught fire and that fire propagated to the explosives, causing the accident," He said.
Earlier today, US President Donald Trump offered sympathy and possible aids to the people of Lebanon after the tragic indecent. However, Lebanese officials are concerned about President Trump referring the indecent as an "attack" without any official clues.
-CNN
The #BeirutBlast was so huge that it literally carved out a part of the land.
— Jenan Moussa (@jenanmoussa) August 5, 2020
Aerial view š@akhbar pic.twitter.com/sFzbybVKFq
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