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August 6, 2020

Hizballah Bears Responsibility for the Beirut Blast

There are no prizes for guessing who in Lebanon might be interested in storing such vast quantities of explosive material.

According to the Lebanese government, the explosion in its capital city on Tuesday that left over 100 dead and many more injured or homeless was caused by the accidental detonation of some 2,750 of ammonium nitrate, a fertilizer often used for making bombs. (Less than one-thousandth of that amount was used by Timothy McVeigh to destroy the Oklahoma City federal building in 1995.) Previously, police have discovered Hizballah warehouses in London and Germany storing many tons of the same explosive. Hussein Ibish comments:

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August 6, 2020

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