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Large explosion recorded in Beirut

Either hezballah is some powerful global terrorist group funded and armed by iran, or it's a poor group that has to skim nitrogen fertilizer that's readily available around the world from a warehouse to conduct it's operations. I don't think it's the latter. I'm assuming they have access to actual military level explosives if needed.

Isn't that stuff basically just 34-0-0 fertilizer you can buy at home depot anyway? I might be off
 
Climber said:
How is it that you appear to believe that you know much more about the country than most of us? Have you lived there or done extra study of the country or region? Just curious.
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Where did I claim that I knew more about it than you guys?
 
asdfghwy said:
Either hezballah is some powerful global terrorist group funded and armed by iran, or it's a poor group that has to skim nitrogen fertilizer that's readily available around the world from a warehouse to conduct it's operations. I don't think it's the latter. I'm assuming they have access to actual military level explosives if needed.

Isn't that stuff basically just 34-0-0 fertilizer you can buy at home depot anyway? I might be off
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Common stuff is much harder to trace the buying source, especially if paid in cash.

Remember the shape charge they used at the beginning of the movie Heat to blow open the armored truck doors? In the movie, it was stated as a common explosive used in demolitions that can be purchased in cash with a simple driver's license (yeah, I know that's Hollywood for you) so it made it difficult for the police in the movie to trace the sale.

I'm just spit balling here.....

If you go around to Home Depot and Lowe's over a period of time and buy 40lb bags of 34-0-0 fertilizer for $15 cash, to get to Timothy McVeigh 2-ton level, you need 100 bags that would cost you, what $1,500. If you spread that activity out over a period of a year, it would be very difficult for something like that to pop up on the FBI's radar.

I suspect that military grade munition purchases is a bit easier to trace than common fertilizer purchases.
 
scootergmc said:
The telegraph must also have a lot of classified ads for bridges.
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Yeah I guess so. Since the Wall Street Journal and NYT reported the same facts the next day, there’s a lot of bridges for sale, huh? :rofl
 
yodaisgod said:
I'm just spit balling here.....

If you go around to Home Depot and Lowe's over a period of time and buy 40lb bags of 34-0-0 fertilizer for $15 cash, to get to Timothy McVeigh 2-ton level, you need 100 bags that would cost you, what $1,500. If you spread that activity out over a period of a year, it would be very difficult for something like that to pop up on the FBI's radar.

I suspect that military grade munition purchases is a bit easier to trace than common fertilizer purchases.
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OK NOW you on a gubment list for sure!

:laughing
 
Craziest video I've seen yet:

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Eldritch said:
I always laugh when I see hand grenades and C4 used in Movies. I think most people have no idea.
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Yeah for sure. My fav tropes are the grenade explodes and people just fall over dead vs. being torn to shreds via shrapnel, or the grenade exploding way too slowly...like that scene in Die Hard 2 the fuses are like 30 seconds...

Or the best is when it sends the good guys flying through the air with zero damage.
 
HappyHighwayman said:
Yeah for sure. My fav tropes are the grenade explodes and people just fall over dead vs. being torn to shreds via shrapnel, or the grenade exploding way too slowly...like that scene in Die Hard 2 the fuses are like 30 seconds...

Or the best is when it sends the good guys flying through the air with zero damage.
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Yeah, you never get to see a guy killed by an arm that came off another guy in those scenes. It is kind of like when you see a gunfight in an elevator in a movie. :dunno
 
I always found the old atomic bomb test videos to be fascinating, especially the shock wave. Powerful stuff.
 
Climber said:
I always found the old atomic bomb test videos to be fascinating, especially the shock wave. Powerful stuff.
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Not so fun fact: The battleships that used to get blown up in those Nuclear Tests out near the Bikini Atoll would get towed back to the Hunters Point naval base behind where Candlestick Park used to stand.

They would get chopped up and the effects of the blasts would be studied down there. :nchantr
 
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