FBI probe: nitrate amount in Beirut blast was a fraction of original shipment

Re:FBI probe: nitrate amount in Beirut blast was a fraction ... by rickeydidio on Saturday July 31, 2021 @01:32PM (#28020075)

I am American and this was my first thought when reading the headline. “Why is the FBI involved?” I can understand the CIA, like you said. So weird but a sign of our times.

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Re:FBI probe: nitrate amount in Beirut blast was a fraction ... by raincom on Saturday July 31, 2021 @02:31PM (#28020532)

There are multiple reasons:

- Lebanese govt invited them.

- USA wants to keep tab in that part of the world.

- Talented investigators in FBI and others want to keep their brains sharp.

- Advance knowledge about explosions, how to prevent them, etc.

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Re:FBI probe: nitrate amount in Beirut blast was a fraction ... by dboreham on Saturday July 31, 2021 @02:01PM (#28020295)

FBI is just "the police", so it's very normal and happens all the time that police experts from one country are invited to help investigate crime in another country.

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Re:FBI probe: nitrate amount in Beirut blast was a fraction ... by refulgentis on Saturday July 31, 2021 @01:34PM (#28020097)

When you hear CIA think intelligence (as in espionage), when you hear FBI think investigation, never failed me

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Re:FBI probe: nitrate amount in Beirut blast was a fraction ... by ncmncm on Saturday July 31, 2021 @05:56PM (#28021879)

When I hear CIA, I think coercion to collect information, most usually information to be used to coerce somebody else. When I hear FBI I think coercion to instigate what will be well-publicized conspiratorial crime. Actual espionage and investigation are decidedly secondary activities.

They have been that way from the start.

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