a letter shared on social media indicates customs officials had warned judges of the risks associated with storing the explosives in ‘hanger 12‘ on several occassions between 2014 and 2017. major chris hunter is a former british army counter—terrorist bomb disposal specialist — here‘s what he said about ammonium nitrate. it's it‘s not designed to be left in ports for several years on end, and effectively discarded, and of course left with the other environmental conditions to degrade it, to dry it out, that sort of thing, you know, it should never have been stored there in those conditions, and certainly not colocated with fireworks. there is of course a much wider context to this. let‘s go to the scene. lebanon has just lost its port through which most of its imports pass through and in the middle of