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Suggest watching the video, which does a brilliant job of explaining the sequence of events leading to the explosion.
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This is so well put-together. Awesome! Thanks for sharing.
It is weird that there is not a single mention of Hezbollah [1]. I think this is "data washing" (not cleaning). Even, to give context in an article.
I mean, this is a technical analysis on the situation. How the Ammonium Nitrate was stored, why the way it was stored was suboptimal at best, how the explosion happened etc.

It doesn't mention corrupt leaders who ignored warnings about this situation, cypriot/russian businessmen who abandoned a ship, and as you mentioned, Hezbollah. But that's not the goal of this thing, isn't it.

You ask why, they explain how.

https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/destruction-...

No issues calling the Israeli military forces “IOF”, as well as using video footage with tampered time stamps like some of the AJ coverage that was going around Twitter and YouTube. At least they have walked back on their hospital parking lot explosion analysis after a few weeks. That one was just as flashy and high tech as the Beirut one.

Much of their coverage of other events is also very politically biased.

So it doesn’t seem that your explanation actually works here.

One man's politically biased is another's politically astute.
Not really bias is a neutral term, so biased is biased regardless of your views. If you can’t see that then your judgment is clouded and you’re about as far from being astute as you can be.
>No issues calling the Israeli military forces “IOF”,

To an Israeli, they are "Defense" forces, from the perspective of the victims, they are an "Occupying" force. Either use of the phrase is appropriate, depending on which side of the bombs you are viewing the scene.

The use of "IOF" instead of "IDF" by an author just means their world views are not aligned with those of an occupying force.

It still means that what they do goes well beyond “a technical analysis on the situation”.

And considering they had to retract at least one analysis piece completely already their overall competency can be put into question also.

The IDF isn’t a descriptive term it’s the official name Israel has given it’s military, regardless of what position when you hold if you call it by a different name it does not lends credibility to your arguments.

I do appreciate the mental gymnastics tho.

I think if you are operating on your kid without anaesthetic to remove a limb that was smashed to pieces by a bomb, it won't matter much what any official has to say about your tormentors name ..

It speaks more of the person who cannot get past "IDF vs. IOF" in the discussion. If this is the issue that breaks the argument for them, while ignoring those smashed limbs, then it may be worthwhile dismissing them entirely ..

I can see that you’re trying to move the goal posts and turn this into an emotional argument but the issue at hand is still is “forensic architecture” and non biases and purely technically objective source? and the answer to that is overwhelmingly no.
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Its not weird. A factual analysis doesn't do attribution if the facts don't support it.
Are you aware that the factual analysis depends on Lebanon politics and it is a fact that the investigation was not transparent?
This does not back up your expectation that a forensic investigation will result in attribution.
I don't expect an attribution but a mention of the complexity of analyzing the explosion based on real political issues in Lebanon. And, obviously mentioning the involved actors.
You wanted a wider discussion, that wasn't given. Your baseline of investigation wasn't theirs, that's fine.
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Ok as someone who was within the shockwave when the explosion happened we heard that fireworks, tires and ammonium nitrate were stored in the warehouse. So I would like to congratulate the team for researching this well. Also one of the rumors that was going around (at least was when I was there) was that people heard sounds of helicopters. Like right before the explosion happened.
I participated in an online discussion where someone said there were reports of people hearing jet fighters, over several replies he was asking why these investigators weren't investigating that. He couldn't get it into his head that the team was doing work using available video and photos and records, and was incapable of investigating hearsay without any footage...
I wonder if those sounds could have been explained by the presence of the fireworks? I could imagine fireworks exploding inside the building could have made sounds similar to helicopters or jets.

Especially because there's no sign of them on the videos.

Geez, that must have been something. Very glad you survived! How far away were you from the explosion and how did the shockwave affect you? How has it affected your life since then?
What I would be most curious is why the epicenter is not centered over the stockpiles?

It does look like a tire fire is secondary (later) before the explosion.

And firework also looks secondary too.