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i was in the i me 6 or 8 pm, august for 2020 that's been a large explosion in lebanon's capital bay roof within the last hour. the not only heard it's adrian celebrities,

capital me. some reports are suggesting that it happened as a vote for me. i was love at 1st away, the glass broke everywhere. d the with so much is destroyed baby support is in the heart of the capitol along a busy highway and close to densely populated neighborhoods. the without warning, one of the largest non nuclear blast in history kills more than 200 people into 1000 and leaves hundreds of thousands homeless. ah, authority saith the blast was caused by highly exclusive material stored at

a warehouse in before. ah, that highly exclusive material was ammonium nitrate at the time authorities problem is that transparent investigation they promised results in 5 days, but it's been a year and the lead judge in the case has been facing fierce political backlash as he attempts to prosecute some of those beliefs to be responsible for unsafely storing the chemical out the ports. there are still many questions surrounding the ammonium nitrate and how much of it was inside the warehouse. at the time of the blast. the multiple videos that were taken moments before the blast pill part of the story. there was a fire at warehouse twelth at $554.00 p. m minutes before the explosion. the fire brigade received a call from the police 9 fire fighters and

a female paramedic. immediately responded the short drive to the port would be their last journey on board. she said it would be, it would be the fact that this of the solid been have been chavez, law over capital. and how this, how does it love it? and then how the, how do i look for so knowing how to show it, how does it come on? i don't know. i told michelle, if any, my so i'm retiring, look at her, the lumber seca alma hadn't initial fee it had to do their colleagues. they were sent to their almost certain death. they weren't told about the dangers. they weren't prepared and they couldn't protect themselves.

some of the firefighters are seen in the photo trying to force open one of the doors of the burning warehouse because no one at the court had the key. ah, that was moment before the explosion. there was a smaller one before a larger blast. seconds later, believed to have been caused by the soft pile of ammonium nitrate board. i'm one of my trade can mottled mamma. well then you hear the fuel as miss and all if and all her daughter alcohols had the most would my thought here last got it. can feel my web site. it hadn't been much time that the famine vapors, vapors mar, ammonium nitrate, horner abolish hopper in ammonium nitrate is used as a fertilizer, but it's also a component to make box. the photos that have since emerged showed

a disaster and waiting a cocktail of label materials were unsafely stored together. ammonium nitrate or not? is it not directed? that's not a 100 fish. mother, he figured a law as an art by nearly ammonium nitrate mechanical trick. either mechanical trigger, it was a billboard, can filed them on fireworks the a cam center and the not bless. you allow a firework and mechanical trigger. the pressure actor, ammonium nitrate behind lucille. but what started the fire investigators who have still to find the answer? say it may be hard to find the trigger. the sight of warehouse 12 was pulverized

replaced by a large water filled crater the lead judge in the case, stoddick baton has been looking into 3 possible theories. the 1st is a mistake in the welding process during repair work that was being done to the warehouse. the 2nd is an intentional fire. some have suggested there might have been an attempt to hide evidence of theft. and the 3rd theory is that the explosion was caused by a targeted air rocket attack. this was later downplayed following a report by french investigators. in the days and hours before the blast was pear work was being done on warehouse 12. they were the 1st of their kind to secure the facility. since the ammonium nitrate was confiscated from amal dove and flagged cargo ship and stored there in 2014 lebanon's

chief prosecutor on our debt gave the order after state security warrant about possible theft. not the potentially explosive material stored there. this photo purportedly shows the syrian laborers who were doing the work, but they don't appear to be taking any precautions with the materials inside days after the port explosion, they were detained along with the owner of the contracting company. there's still no proof, they had a role in starting the fire and our beliefs to have less support and our before the black. but they're still being held without charge documented surface showing that throughout the years. top officials, politicians, civil servants, military and security officers, knew about the dangerous chemicals and did nothing about it. ah, now me,

braxton, the head of the manifest department, the court was among those who warned about the potential for disaster. his wife or roar says mammy has documents that show bracks began warning about the ammonium nitrate in 2014, after learning it was being stored in warehouse 12 and the kids inside. out at the oberlin beyond what i want to get there, it will be out of our she interesting that i will, i found out about tosh, you know, look at what the target at the now. i mean, i don't either. lambert fema would want to have your name, but the coffee there for my would want to have to stay my where the how do you live in shot? how sorry. what was that? how do i modify on the lawn and the whole name of food you have to be mazda? must be but my thought and that i pick up my number on the, on the, on the can kid while the potomac or, or says her husband feel compelled to go above his authority to raise the alarm

bells. she says he's now paying the price for speaking up now be brax is being held without charge along with other ports and customs employees and security officers. and i may, but so it has that, or i became the one beside miss ali on hire. who come was the mckenzie. i'm with dr . mon heck, oxide and heck, my fiance, about adobe. i found with the sash number cut, the fellow here, to whom i know i suddenly my love leisure, his i'm an attorney now the cup, the seller, have to sell them and bella flora and joseph in the day and who will be on the dollar a low now mom, but a dollar in cash, i'm at it, but keep it a dollar can come and dollar weeks before the explosion. the now caretaker, prime minister, has done dear and the incumbent president michelle and acknowledge received a letter from state security warning about the presence of ammonium nitrate. they said they referred the case to the relevant authorities. the state security report

dated july $22020.00, says there was negligence on the part of the port authorities and various stages installations in securing the warehouse so that the ammonium nitrate will be stolen or catch fire. it also mentioned the 2016 correspondence between the army command and the customs director. it in which the arm command suggested offering the ammonium nitrate to a local explosive company or sending it back to the country of origin. it was signed by the commander at the time, john was she who was among a number of suspects who could face criminal charges. unfortunately, the army did not take any measures, not in and containing them and not taking any measures. we export them below the $137.00 munitions law that states that the,

the force of the army is responsible for them. i shall sophie dean is a lawyer who specializes an export compliance. he has analyzed scores of documents and explains why he believes the shipment was not legal from the start. these are slows as all the nitrate ammonium. they need a lot of administer of process. before thinking of importing them. there's a process by law that should be done before entering them. and what's included in this process is the responsibility of the army, the liberties army that's included in this process. so when they entered, they did not get the approval of the army. they just, you know, just took a decision and unloaded the product inside lebanon to find out how the ammonium nitrate ended up inside warehouse 12. a team of investigative journalists have been

digging deeper into its origins. what they discovered is that the shipment involved a network of shadow actors who they say use secretive companies and took advantage of lacks government oversight. and the weaknesses in the maritime shipping industry discovered that this company was, was it a just an added ok? that usually is used to just the companies that act, that companies have to me is an investigative journalist who has been trying to piece together the circumstances that led to the explosion. including the origins of the explosive material. it's believed to have started with a russian vessel called roses, which set sail from the port of a to me and september 2013. while dr. greece, the crew was told to make an unscheduled stop and bay route to take on extra cargo

to be able to pay for passage through the swiss canal. the official, the russian captain boris brokercheck z said the order came for the man. he believed to be the ship's owner, russian businessman, igor, gretsch's skin and that morning we pulled together an international team of generalists in europe and in the middle east. and just look through public documents in registries. we found in the old doug registry that the roses was in fact earned by panama corporation that was ultimately earned by a business men in cyprus. and that was being leased by the russian businessman, ego creatures can and who had previously been named as the owner of the ship. this photo is purportedly of the supreme businessman shipping magnet sharon lumbers mon . only his name has been implicated in offshore finance and money laundering activities. he has admitted that one of his companies once owned the roses,

that ended in june 2012. then there's the company that organized the shipment of ammonium nitrate. a u. k. registered chemical trading firm called civil row, which purchase the material from a georgia factory by all appearances. so vara was acting as a show company, which has since been de registered, but it shares the same address as the businesses of 3 syrian nationals, george ha, swanny. and brothers a mad and middle haughty, they've denied legs to savari, but all 3 have been under sanctions by the us government for aiding the government of syrian president bashar asset. in 2015, we're done and who was accused of serving as an intermediary for us government for

attempting to procure a bony of nitrate in late 2013. that was with have been question with the chemicals on board arise in beirut. pseudo said to says he has information that links the owner of the roses, the 3 syrian nationals and the supreme bank. that bank was called f b. m, which was lebanese, owned and based in cyprus. so we had the owner of the ship and athena business men of the acting order, the clients of the thing bank, which is by the way, it closed that. i mean, it's not a bank that you can come in and like to open an account or to take a loan, or to take a check book of checks or something. no, it's just a close langley to the lines in 2014, the us treasury department sanctioned the bank for alleged money laundering and

financing terrorists, including the iranian back. lebanese armed group has bhalla and facilitating the purchase of chemical weapons for the syrian government. it went out of business, not long after f b m in the very notorious bank has been connected to multiple corruptions, smuggling sanctions, but in cases around the world, it's something that ad bears further investigation when the ship docked and they report in november 2013, it wasn't able to load heavy cargo because the ship was in a state of disrepair. there was a lengthy legal dispute over port fees and debts, which meant the captain and $3.00 crew were held there for nearly a year. that was until the baby authorities impounded the ship in 2014. this captain and his crew were allowed to leave the details surrounding the ship's true destination. still remain

a big question. it wasn't until the 4th explosion that journalists discovered shipping records, which indicated the ammonium nitrate was supposed to be delivered to an explosive company in mozambique. but it never arrived because the roses were stuck in bay route. when the company was contacted, it confirmed, it ordered the chemicals from silverado, but because it was such a route that was the end of the transaction. not everyone buys this. let's be professional. it was not intended for muslim big. that's my, that's my view of the shipment. why? because these are international laws, even if you want to some these for this product to muslim, be there are lots of administrative processes that didn't happen. you don't have only a bill of lading saying that this shipment is going to mozambique is not enough for

this type of shipment to go ahead. another question, journalists are trying to answer is exactly how much of the chemical compound was inside warehouse 12, at the time of the blast government documents and officials say 2750 tons were offloaded from the ship and stored in that hanger. when the ship was was unloaded, there was a document that said that out of the $1750.00 bag that was unloaded. 1950 bag, which is that 2000 bags was damaged and they could not be used anymore. last, actually we talked to several people who witnessed the whole process. one of them was the driver of the claim who unloaded ship. one of them was the owner of the company that was hired by the port authority to unload the ship. they doubt that

the amount that was removed from the ship was $2750.00. they said they believe it was much less. i'm all ok. and the 11 of the guys who signed the document that says 1950 bag with damaged he, he said he says it's clearly that he did not count sign a paper. this is not unusual given that many state institutions are riddled with corruption. the way the port operates, leaves room for security lapses and theft. more often than not, the equipment used to scan cargo doesn't work. emily and b, b, c, dot, tennessee. and it ought to modify another analogy, america, and i'm the only one that i'm going to do home me lick and mckee. she has had them had the the who knew thought, well,

because it was there is little audit and oversight. proper inventories are rarely conducted. i believe those 2000 and phone $1000.00 that $2900.00. they were removed from the ship before it was unloaded. the missing amount was there was any move in one way or another from the city in an illegal way. of course. what many experts have said is the size of the blast indicates that the amount of $2750.00 tons did not explode. the u. s. domestic intelligence agency, the f. b i, and french forensic teams provided some technical assistance in the investigation. and even though their findings have not been made public, it's believed the f b, i concluded, the amount that exploded is 500 times the evidence available, so far, just point to incompetence, bureaucratic ineptitude,

and endemic corruption. the perfect groundwork for what some call a man made national catastrophe. me when they did not select, it's very tempting to look for and made him simple solution that this was all a big conspiracy and everything. and it was a criminal effort to smuggle ammonium nitrate to syria on the evidence we have right now, we can conclude something like that. what we do see was that there was the use of a lot of very typical tricks that a used to hide ownership and to make things complex and buried them underneath. behind this might be criminality. it might also be incompetent, and more likely it's a mix of the thir love. it is in a country where there has been a culture of impunity. the battle for justice has rarely been one of

those and it has a meanly oval. i'm a lead emission of us that possible dimension on the, on the higher when the blast happened, lebanon was already a broken country, a state close to collapse, after decades of corruption and mismanagement by a political class, still in power. it's that corrupt system that many blame for the failure to respond to the threat. i'm looking for to know for whom this nitrate came. who kept this nitrate in lebanon, who allowed this nitrate to answer lebanon, who knew about it and kept this nitrates here? i mean, we how we want a whole complete justice. we don't want partial justice. oh

yeah i we're not beneath their portraits and want to be able to busiest intersections or reminder that justice can seem to be searched ah do nice to short by the worst piece time disaster in a tree with a turbulent and dark pass where the truth has often been i

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