An explosives expert has claimed the Beirut blast was caused by burning military missiles - not ammonium nitrate. Danilo Coppe, 56 and from Parmesan in Italy, is one of the country's leading explosive experts. He believes the August 4 blast, which killed 160 people, wounded 6,000 and destroyed 300,000 homes, was not caused by ammonium nitrate because the colour of the cloud was orange. The explosives expert, nicknamed Mr. Dynamite ...