There was red flags with him. So much so that they had an informant in their group for more than half a year. She warned the ATF they were going to bomb the federal building so instead of going after Timothy McVeigh they fired her a month before the bombing and then rehired her after. The government seems to have wanted it to happen.
It almsot definitely was ammoniam nitrate as numerous sources said it was stored at a warehouse there and is highly explosive. Also in the smaller first explosion you can see something like fireworks going off. it is very plausible that in shitty negligent conditions a fireworks warehouse caught on fire and took off and the heat and flames set off the ammonia nitrate in that purple cloud.
My ears are burning. The budding signal processor in me notes a potential explosion and/or fire propagation issue. This may mean the fireworks explosion and fire were not the cause of the major explosion. However, I have no real interest in Lebanon or Israel, for that matter, to really bother with a conspiracy theory.
Now Trump is saying it was a bomb of some sort. I'm assuming the guy has some intel from his generals that is saying that, but with Trump, who the hell knows.
"Lebanon's Year From Hell" - Death Toll Tops 100, Over 4,000 Injured After Beirut Explosion https://www.zerohedge.com/geopoliti...the+survival+rate+for+everyone+drops+to+zero)
Yahoo says it was 2750 metric tons of Ammonium nitrate which is 2748 more tons than used in Oklahoma city. Apparently a cargo ship full of the stuff was abandoned 6 years and the Ammonium nitrate was put in a warehouse and they just forgot about it. https://www.yahoo.com/news/beirut-ignored-public-warning-russian-093800755.html
I find that very hard to believe. Tons of explosive material left in the middle of a city for years - just like that. My opinion is that that was a shipment on its way to Israel coming from Iran to thank them for all the help assisting them in putting together a nuclear bomb. Yes, the same bomb Obama tried to helped them so much with.