Fifteen tons of fireworks. Jugs of kerosene and acid. Thousands of tons of ammonium nitrate. A system of corruption and bribes let the perfect bomb sit for years.
The dangerous, officer, captain, who was from the State Security Agency, warned his supporters what the threat of immediate security posed.
But it was revealed that other Lebanese authorities already knew. Many authorities.
A Team of The New York Times, which conducted dozens of interviews with port, customs and security officials, shipping agents and other marine trade professionals, revealed that a corrupt and de-de-foncanal system failed to respond to the threat when the country's political elite was unable to respond to the threat.
Previously unknown documents have shown how many government agencies have accepted responsibility for the situation. Special pictures from inside the hangar show the haphazard, and ultimately the destructive, explosive handle. And the analysis of the high-security video explains how the burning garbage material has come to create the most devastating explosion in Lebanon's history.
Six years later, 2,750 tons of Ammonium nitrate had arrived in the port of Beirut and hangar was made in 12.
No one took action to protect this chemicals, more than 1,000 times, which is used to bomb a federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995.
The year of negligence and employment in the duster was approved by a Desfoncanal government that has public safety for the high-pressure business of bribery and graft.
Perhaps nowhere is this system more obvious than the port, a profitable prize in the FFS, overturned by Lebanese political parties, which see it as a "clear" way to distribute itself, contracts and jobs to loyalists and to illegal goods.
In seconds, the explosion was roofing through buildings for miles around, falling to historic houses, reducing the hollow frames and skyscrapers on Compton streets with countless upended life-detratos. The explosion killed more than 190 people, injured 6,000 and caused billions of dollars in damage.
The government's ill-fated attempt to destroy Lebanon was taken as an economy on the path of poor infrastructure and the movement of continuous unofficial protests. The explosion that is overshadowed, raising alarms about the system's stoicism in a giant and terrifying new way.
The port is vertical to all the things That Lebanese protesters say is wrong with their government, difficult with sickness and corruption in almost every aspect of the process.
The daily business of cargo, currently found, is found, multiple parties need a chain of cakeboxes: allowing multiple parties to import For the Customs Inspector, and for the military and other security officers to allow claims of transparent fraud, and to the Ministry of Social Affairs, a luxury vehicle The tax was exempted from disability.
Corruption is stronger than disease. For example, the port's main cargo scanner has not worked properly for years, reducing the bribery-based system of manual cargo inspection.
After the blast, the president, the prime minister and the leaders of Lebanon's security agencies – all of whom were warned about the Ammonium knight - met at the presidential palace to assess what had gone wrong. The meeting is immediately pointed to the divine and the finger, according to one attendee and the other is brief on the discussion.
There wasn't much blame for going around. There is a port of all the main parties and security agencies in Lebanon. Nobody took action to protect him.
"The administration has failed since the birth of Lebanon," Judge Ghassan Oydat, Lebanon's chief public prosecutor, replied.
And a port is running.
Prime Minister Hassan Diab was noticed about the chemicals in early June and planned to visit the port to raise the issue but canceled it, a senior security official said. A statement from Mr. Diab's office said that the visit was "normal inspection" which was due to other, important matters.
In late July, state security warned the top Security Council in a report to the country's most powerful officials, including the heads of Lebanon's security agencies, the president and the prime minister.
On August 4, the government sent a team to fix the hangar.
It is not clear whether his work accidentally lit up the fire that caused the explosion on the same day but this is the most likely situation.
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