FBI Probe Shows Amount of Chemicals in Beirut Blast Was a Fraction of Original Shipment
31st July 2021
The FBI’s Oct. 7, 2020 report, which was seen by Reuters this week, estimates around 552 tonnes of ammonium nitrate exploded that day, much less than the 2,754 tonnes that arrived on a Russian-leased cargo ship in 2013.
The FBI report does not give any explanation as to how the discrepancy arose, or where the rest of the shipment may have gone.
Of course the Middle East, with its hundreds of square miles of fertile soil, has a crying need for fertilizer.