Cut The Clutter: Beirut blast, ammonium nitrate, Lebanon, economic collapse & Hezbollah

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.

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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