Posted On August 7, 2020
#CutTheClutter ##LebnonBlast
Tuesday's explosions at a dockyard in Beirut were the result of over 2,700 tons of ammonium nitrate stored for years. In episode 542 of Cut The Clutter, Shekhar Gupta tells you the unlikely, spy-fiction like story of how this chemical got there, why many see a Hezbollah link & how this tragedy makes us talk about a nation as tiny & fascinating as Lebanon.
Read Declan Walsh and Andrew Higgins' piece in the New York Times about the Rhosus ship
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/05/world/middleeast/beirut-explosion-ship.html
Read Omar Shariff's piece in Gulf News about Lebanon's currency
https://gulfnews.com/world/mena/total-collapse-lebanons-currency-crisis-explained-1.72966660
Read this ThePrint Essential on ammonium nitrate
https://theprint.in/theprint-essential/all-about-ammonium-nitrate-chemical-behind-the-massive-blast-in-lebanons-beirut/476100/
Read and watch New York Times' coverage of the Beirut Blasts
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/05/video/beirut-explosion-footage.html
Read Hussein Ibish's piece on Hezbollah
https://theprint.in/world/why-hezbollah-will-not-escape-blame-for-deadly-chemical-blast-in-beirut/476053/
Read Bobby Ghosh's piece on why the global community fears giving financial support to Lebanon
https://theprint.in/world/worlds-dilemma-after-beirut-how-to-help-lebanon-without-empowering-its-shady-rulers/476061/
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