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anecdotal evidence here, but I grew up on a farm. I know exactly what ammonium nitrate is. Here in America the ATF does almost everything it can to keep you fr
by nimbius 6y ago
anecdotal evidence here, but I grew up on a farm. I know exactly what ammonium nitrate is. Here in America the ATF does almost everything it can to keep you from storing or purchasing any more than a sack at a time unless you can prove youve got the soy or corn to feed with it.
a quick Wiki shows Agriculture in Lebanon is the third most productive sector in the country after the tertiary and industrial sectors. It contributes 3.6% to GDP and employs around 4% of the active working population.
Is it feasible for a subset of 216,000 people to steal this chemical rampantly over five years? absolutely. it never goes bad, and you can trade it with neighboring farmers almost like a barter system for things like seed, dung and tractor parts. Should you ever store it? absolutely not, but im willing to venture Lebanese farmers arent millionires and dont really care.
if just 300 people strated looting this chemical theyd only need 20 pounds a piece. theres 3000 tonnes right there.
TL;DR: i do not think this is being used to make explosives.
- MagnumOpus 6y ago> if just 300 people strated looting this chemical theyd only need 20 pounds a piece. theres 3000 tonnes right there That's 3 tonnes... (And as the saying goes, what's the difference between 3 tonnes and 3000 tonnes? About 3000 tonnes.)
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- perl4ever 6y agoHow many working days are there in five years?
- metachris 6y agoYour math is off by a factor of 1000. 20 pounds is about 9kg, let's say 10 for easier math. 300 people with 10kg each is 3 tons, not 3000.
- perl4ever 6y agoOver 5 years was how I took it.
- yetihehe 6y agoYeah, removing 3000tons of fertilizer with typical truck would take 8 years if you could steal one ton daily every single day. Can you imagine stealing one ton every single day? Also in 2015 bags were already ripped, so probably very hard to lift with forklift and probably already in one solid piece, so no shoveling. Stealing all of this would required big organised action with too much bribery. I don't say nothing was stolen, but probably less than 10 tons over 5 years.