Special report: Speaking to Lebanese port officials, government sources, firefighters and eyewitnesses, and reviewing a dozen documents, Bel Trew, Oliver Carroll, Samira el-Azar and Richard Hall trace the paper trail of negligence and incompetence that led up to the devastating explosion
The first warning was raised before the cargo was even offloaded in an internal memo dated February 2014 and seen byIn it Colonel Joseph Skaf, head of the Lebanese narcotics control division, warned Beirut’s anti-smuggling department that the material was “highly dangerous and a threat to public safety”.in July 2014 to officials at Beirut port and the ministry of transportation “warning of the dangers of the materials carried on the ship”.
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