[LightDestory]

Agreed.  And what really took my breath away was that confiscated explosive armaments were allegedly stored in the same silo as the ammonium nitrate. It kind of boggles the mind but is also an indication of how chaotic things are "mis"managed in Lebanon.  I both feel very sorry for the Lebanese, I admire and like them very much - I love their cuisine and I love their passion for and sense of community and caring for one another.  But wow, on the Government front things suck really very badly to the point of a tragic joke.  Once one starts reading on their politics one could possibly develop a better understanding for how very complicated everything is in Lebanon with so many factions at loggerheads with one another, and how difficult it is to create a Government that makes every one happy.  That in its own right is a miracle - to create a democratic Government.  But looks as though it hasn't been working well for many years, so much so that greed and corruption have become institutionalized in the Government. Irony is that the same corrupt political players are still there reaping benefits and they are the only ones trained and experienced to be voted into a new Government.

I am sure that the Lebanon's political status can be listed as a cause. Some newspaper said that the explosion was cause by a bad management of the stock of nitrate. Ammonium nitrate is well know for its explosive problem, they magazine's owner didn't just care about WHAT he was stocking and HOW handle it.

Confiscated or legit stocks... the government doesn't havy resposability because it assigned the job to stock it to a "professional", but this one didn't take the right safety precautions