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Message: [QUOTE="Kraut783, post: 591095, member: 2320"] [SIZE=7][B]A Russian ship's cargo of dangerous ammonium nitrate was stranded in Beirut port for years[/B][/SIZE] "Documents newly reviewed by CNN reveal that a shipment of 2,750 metric tons of [URL='https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/05/middleeast/beirut-port-explosion-ammonium-nitrate-intl-hnk/index.html']ammonium nitrate[/URL] arrived in Beirut on a Russian-owned vessel in 2013. The ship, named the MV Rhosus, was destined for Mozambique -- but stopped in Beirut due to financial difficulties that also created unrest with the ship's Russian and Ukrainian crew. Once it arrived, the ship never left Beirut's port, according Lebanon's Director of Customs, Badri Daher, despite repeated warnings by him and others that the cargo was the equivalent of "a floating bomb." [URL='https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/05/europe/lebanon-russian-ship-blast-intl/index.html']How tons of potentially explosive cargo were stranded at Beirut port[/URL] [/QUOTE]