denizaksulu wrote:Hermes wrote:denizaksulu wrote:Whose brain-child was it to store the containers where they did? Why did not the USA take the contraband (or the eu) and just left t iny Cyprus to deal with this 'hot potato'. No pun intended. I am fucking annoyed.
Me too. What on earth were the authorities doing with such a potentially dangerous cargo sitting out in the open next to a power station? Is it true that they declined offers of international help? Who declined such an offer and on what grounds? I fear this has the making of an enormous scandal. It's quite right that the Defence Minister and head of the army have resigned. What was Christofias' role in any of this?
One thing comes to mind is someone trying to curry favour with Syria -for the obvious reasons. I still suspect sabotage after the shipment was on the agenda again. Did some entity try ensure the shipment never reached its original destinstion? Perhaps a bit far fetched, but perhaps Syria wanted to embarass the RoC? Far fetched again, any plausible ideas? Excluding a real probable accident?
I was watching the news from early morning.Somehow i am very suspicious something ain't right.
First of all at 2.30-3.00 something happened at the Power station and the Engineers that were on night shift they all got injured and got carried to the hospital. These people were actually the first casualties.Immediately after that the power station stopped working! THIS NEWS was totally silenced later on, and all media kept on repeating us of what happened at the naval base 3 hours later!
So at 5.45 we had the explosion of the 98 seacontainers with ammunition at the naval base, about 1 km away.
Those 98 pieces were packed in stacks of 3, so bottom stack had 30 another 30 on top and then another 30. The sun hits each one at only one of their 4 major sides. And what kind of sun heat is there at 6 in the morning?
Furthermore all those 98 containers were on an asphalted basement, almost 50 meters away from any dried low grass.
There was indeed a fire of low dry grass at the nearby fields (very strange --> at 3-4 after midnight!). Was that fire that big to cause an explosion from a distance? Obviously not but it constituted a danger.That's why the commander of the base got in, and ordered the spreading of water on the containers. Alas at 5.45 the containers exploded killing and injuring so many people including the commander of the base.
At 11 o clock the party leaders had a meeting and made statements. One of them (Omerou) said yes the containers had ammunition inside but no ammunition can ever explode without striking a detonator.That statement was the second one that got totally silenced afterwards.
At some time later they announced they will be getting experts from Greece to investigate how the tragedy happened, also caring at the same time to announce that "from first glance the possibility of a sabotage is excluded"
And as if the whole "blurring" was not enough we had countless a rumors telling us that 2 containers have got swallowed from the pressure inside the last few weeks( !!!)- what a stupid argument... all sea-containers have 2 ventilation rails on the sides near the doors-hence they cannot swallow damn it, and then the most funny one:One week ago, they said they had a small explossion inside the containers that they managed
At about the same time (11.30) the Chief Engineer of the power station said to the media that they had a lot of damage from the blast but he cannot tell if there is any damage to the generators themselves. He said they will check each one (of the 10? generators) in the next few days before they make a final anouncement.
This statement was the 3rd one to be totally silenced later on, and all we were hearing afterwards was that the power station got fully destroyed.
Like I said don't think they are telling the truth. As for the Power station that was the NEW power station on the process of GETTING BUILT. How the hell that new power station that was UNDER CONSTRUCTION was providing us 40% of the power I really don't know!
