<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>papercrane</author><text>FBI has expertise in the matter and was invited by the Lebanon government to help with the investigation.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theguardian.com&amp;#x2F;world&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;aug&amp;#x2F;15&amp;#x2F;beirut-explosion-fbi-lebanon-investigation-us&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theguardian.com&amp;#x2F;world&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;aug&amp;#x2F;15&amp;#x2F;beirut-explosi...&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain><item><author>wwwhizz</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not American, and I am genuinely curious, why does the FBI investigate this?&lt;p&gt;I can imagine the US government wanting an investigation in cases like this, and I can understand Beirut wanting (or maybe just allowing) different countries to investigate, but isn&amp;#x27;t foreign investigations a job of the CIA (or, at least, not the FBI)?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>FBI probe: nitrate amount in Beirut blast was a fraction of original shipment</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/fbi-probe-shows-amount-chemicals-beirut-blast-was-fraction-original-shipment-2021-07-30/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>From the article:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; FBI investigators came to Beirut after the blast at Lebanon&amp;#x27;s request.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; A senior Lebanese official who was aware of the FBI report and its findings said the Lebanese authorities agreed with the Bureau on the quantity that exploded.</text><parent_chain><item><author>wwwhizz</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not American, and I am genuinely curious, why does the FBI investigate this?&lt;p&gt;I can imagine the US government wanting an investigation in cases like this, and I can understand Beirut wanting (or maybe just allowing) different countries to investigate, but isn&amp;#x27;t foreign investigations a job of the CIA (or, at least, not the FBI)?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>FBI probe: nitrate amount in Beirut blast was a fraction of original shipment</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/fbi-probe-shows-amount-chemicals-beirut-blast-was-fraction-original-shipment-2021-07-30/</url></story>