# Beirut explosion **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 4, 2020, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beirut-explosion/917267 "2020-08-04T18:57:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2020, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beirut-explosion/917267/141 "2020-08-18T04:09:24Z")
[Lebanese customs chief arrested over Beirut blast](https://www.yahoo.com/news/lebanese-customs-chief-arrested-over-140408906.html): > The head of Lebanon’s customs authority was formally arrested on Monday after being questioned over the massive explosion in Beirut earlier this month, the state-run National News Agency reported. _Much more at the link._ ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2020, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beirut-explosion/917267/142 "2020-08-18T09:46:50Z")
I’m not surprised they asked French investigators to help out, I am surprised they asked for the US’s FBI as well. ---
**Author:** ![SharltoCopley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sharltocopley/32/12309_2.png) [@SharltoCopley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SharltoCopley)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2020, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beirut-explosion/917267/143 "2020-08-19T16:27:15Z")
Yes, this was in a live interview with BBC Arabic. [Here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1iwI2ZwENg) is the video. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2020, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beirut-explosion/917267/144 "2020-09-12T02:40:28Z")
Let’s not forget the four-legged survivors. > **[Animal Welfare League of Arlington Takes in Beirut Rescues | ARLnow.com](https://www.arlnow.com/2020/09/11/animal-welfare-league-of-arlington-takes-in-beirut-rescues/)** > > Thirty-three pets rescued from the devastation in Beirut, Lebanon are now in Arlington, awaiting adoption. The Animal Welfare League of Arlington posted a video (below) of the Beirut blast rescues arriving at the airport and at the shelter near... ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2020, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beirut-explosion/917267/145 "2020-09-12T04:13:25Z")
Last weekend, I heard that some of their machinery may have detected life in a building. Has anyone heard anything more about that? Okay, my personal guess is that if anything was alive in a collapsed building, it was probably a dog that moved in after the explosion. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2021, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beirut-explosion/917267/146 "2021-08-05T00:18:15Z")
One year later… > **[Grieving and angry, Lebanese mark year since horrific blast](https://apnews.com/article/middle-east-business-lebanon-beirut-df101c65596fb121046e351067406c2e)** > > BEIRUT (AP) — United in grief and anger, families of the victims and several thousand Lebanese on Wednesday marked one year since the horrific explosion at Beirut's port with a moment of silence and prayers at the foot of the silos that was shredded... ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2021, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beirut-explosion/917267/147 "2021-08-05T00:42:41Z")
The classic multi-kiloton pile of ammonium nitrate! Note, the one in Beirut was hardly the only such pile in the world; it just happened to be the one to explode that day. Not too surprisingly, no one has yet been held accountable. Just wanted to remind that we are coming up on the 100-year anniversary of the BASF explosion: [https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Oppau-300x225.jpg](https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Oppau-300x225.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2023, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beirut-explosion/917267/148 "2023-08-04T10:41:56Z")
This article > **[Opinion | Three years after Beirut’s apocalypse, no one is accountable](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/03/beirut-blast-anniversary-justice-lebanon/)** > > The perpetrators of the explosion that killed 200 and left 300,000 homeless have yet to answer for it. says no one has been held accountable for the ~1 kt explosion. Happy anniversary! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beirut-explosion/917267.md?page=7)