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<blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 4573687" data-attributes="member: 48469"><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/05/floating-bomb-disclosed-documents-reveal-path" target="_blank">Anger in Beirut after missed warnings over 'floating bomb'</a></p><p></p><p>"With Lebanon’s capital still smouldering, an emerging paper trail linked the blast to a <a href="https://apple.news/AWxU28Qt1N3W452vYN5i1PA" target="_blank">mammoth stash of ammonium nitrate</a> that was once described as a “floating bomb” and housed at the port since 2014. As recently as six months ago, officials inspecting the consignment warned that if it was not moved it would “blow up all of Beirut”.</p><p></p><p></p><p>"The Lebanese prime minister on Tuesday night had blamed the explosion on 2,750-tonne store of ammonium nitrate, a chemical used in bombs and fertilisers, that had been stored at the port. Media reports from 2014 claimed a Russian-owned vessel carrying that load <a href="https://apple.news/AuyH5MfODPq-PnkktfTWBFw" target="_blank">was impounded at Beirut’s port that year</a>, after making an emergency stop in the city and being denied permission to leave by customs authorities because it was deemed unseaworthy.</p><p></p><p>The former captain of the vessel, the Rhosus, alleged in an interview with Russian journalists six years ago that the owner of the ship, reported as Igor Grechushkin, had abandoned it along with the crew, who were being “held hostage” by customs authorities. “The owner has abandoned the ship. The cargo is ammonium nitrate. It is an explosive substance. And we’ve been abandoned. We’ve been living for 10 months on a powder keg.”</p><p></p><p>The Guardian has not been able to verify the claims Grechushkin was the ship’s owner and has attempted to contact him for comment.</p><p></p><p>In another letter published by a journalist in touch with the crew, the ship was described as “a floating bomb and the crew is a hostage aboard this bomb.”</p><p></p><p>The mostly Ukrainian crew were held onboard the ship for nearly a year before they were released, <a href="https://shiparrested.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/The-Arrest-News-11th-issue.pdf" target="_blank">their lawyers said</a> in a 2015 note, and the ammonium nitrate was confiscated and held at the port in a warehouse."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Box Ox, post: 4573687, member: 48469"] [URL="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/05/floating-bomb-disclosed-documents-reveal-path"]Anger in Beirut after missed warnings over 'floating bomb'[/URL] "With Lebanon’s capital still smouldering, an emerging paper trail linked the blast to a [URL='https://apple.news/AWxU28Qt1N3W452vYN5i1PA']mammoth stash of ammonium nitrate[/URL] that was once described as a “floating bomb” and housed at the port since 2014. As recently as six months ago, officials inspecting the consignment warned that if it was not moved it would “blow up all of Beirut”. "The Lebanese prime minister on Tuesday night had blamed the explosion on 2,750-tonne store of ammonium nitrate, a chemical used in bombs and fertilisers, that had been stored at the port. Media reports from 2014 claimed a Russian-owned vessel carrying that load [URL='https://apple.news/AuyH5MfODPq-PnkktfTWBFw']was impounded at Beirut’s port that year[/URL], after making an emergency stop in the city and being denied permission to leave by customs authorities because it was deemed unseaworthy. The former captain of the vessel, the Rhosus, alleged in an interview with Russian journalists six years ago that the owner of the ship, reported as Igor Grechushkin, had abandoned it along with the crew, who were being “held hostage” by customs authorities. “The owner has abandoned the ship. The cargo is ammonium nitrate. It is an explosive substance. And we’ve been abandoned. We’ve been living for 10 months on a powder keg.” The Guardian has not been able to verify the claims Grechushkin was the ship’s owner and has attempted to contact him for comment. In another letter published by a journalist in touch with the crew, the ship was described as “a floating bomb and the crew is a hostage aboard this bomb.” The mostly Ukrainian crew were held onboard the ship for nearly a year before they were released, [URL='https://shiparrested.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/The-Arrest-News-11th-issue.pdf']their lawyers said[/URL] in a 2015 note, and the ammonium nitrate was confiscated and held at the port in a warehouse." [/QUOTE]
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