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Major explosion in downtown Nashville

A report I saw said that the building housed a "data center" for AT&T and the blast caused some AT&T cell service disruption, mostly limited to just the immediate Nashville area though.

I frankly don't understand the point of such a sophisticated attack in order to create such a relatively weak disruption IF that disruption was indeed the goal; but the data center is the only thing on that block that makes any sense as a target. There's nothing but restaurants and a few boutique shops across the street. I don't see someone getting angry enough about losing his job at The Spaghetti Factory to stage an event like this. There are apartments above the restaurants and shops...but, the broadcasted warning seems to rule out an individual person being the target.

The alternative is that no business was a specific target, the intent was simply as much damage with as little threat to life as possible, and the location was arbitrary.
 
Delphic Oracle said:
*tone* "This area must be evacuated now"

x3(?)

"If you can hear this message, evacuate now."

x3(?)

Repeat
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That is what is captured in the few-seconds-long surveillance video, but I've seen reports indicating there was more to the message earlier, including a direct repeating statement that "There is a bomb".
 
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Checkmite said:
A report I saw said that the building housed a "data center" for AT&T and the blast caused some AT&T cell service disruption, mostly limited to just the immediate Nashville area though.
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Looks bigger than that now. AT&T outages are now widespread across parts of Tenn and Kentucky; including 911 services and possibly AT&T owned services like DirectTV.

I wonder if AT&T or the 911 system was the target.
 
Checkmite said:
That is what is captured in the few-seconds-long surveillance video, but I've seen reports indicating there was more to the message earlier, including a direct repeating statement that "There is a bomb".
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I imagine when the cops called for an evacuation they also blasted a message...no time to go to every door. Maybe there are 2 warnings- one from the RV and one from the cops?

(I admit I have not listened to them yet- audio not working on this computer)
 
Checkmite said:
For what it's worth, the news articles I'm seeing most lately quote the police as saying they heard "announcements coming from the vehicle" to the effect that a bomb might explode in 15 minutes. This is coupled with a police statement that right now it's unknown whether anyone was in the vehicle at the time it exploded; so while it's reasonable to assume that the "announcement" was a recording, for the time being there is at least a chance that it may not have been.

Either way, that's incredibly bizarre. Obviously someone who intends to kill people - or even lure first responders to a site in order to attack them specifically - isn't going to be broadcasting a warning that a bomb is about to go off. I suspect the bomb was likely intended to damage property to the exclusion of harming people.
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Law Enforcement is puzzled;this fits no MO and makes no sense as a major terrorist attack; it's like the perp wanted to avoid heavy casualties.
Mu own gut feeling is this is an individual loon,but time will tell.
 
cosmicaug said:
I suppose if it were a different AT&T building (coastal handling main trunks), it could be considered a "Deep State" target due to association with NSA. In Tennessee, I don't think that argument would make sense.

Then again, these are folk to whom QAnon makes sense.
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I think it is really premature to pin this on anybody. I duslike rigth wing groups as much as yo do, but , in the words of Sherlock Holmes, it is always a miatake to reach conclusions base don insufficent data.
 
JoeMorgue said:
Looks bigger than that now. AT&T outages are now widespread across parts of Tenn and Kentucky; including 911 services and possibly AT&T owned services like DirectTV.
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Indeed I'm reading that now.

On one Nashville local news broadcast they just brought up the fact that it's interesting all of these outages and problems have developed in the hours after the explosion, rather than occurring immediately after the explosion and the physical damage it caused.
 
dudalb said:
Law Enforcement is puzzled;this fits no MO and makes no sense as a major terrorist attack; it's like the perp wanted to avoid heavy casualties.
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Yeah but disrupting telecoms isn't the same thing as "harmless" especially since most reasons someone would do it are as a casualty multiplier for another attack.

Sure it could be some lone nut who thinks the Democrats had a child sex dungeon or whatever, but if we move beyond "Lone nut" it doesn't leave a lot of motives that aren't almost as disturbing as "intentional loss of life."

Time will tell.
 
JoeMorgue said:
Yeah but disrupting telecoms isn't the same thing as "harmless" especially since most reasons someone would do it are as a casualty multiplier for another attack.

Sure it could be some lone nut who thinks the Democrats had a child sex dungeon or whatever, but if we move beyond "Lone nut" it doesn't leave a lot of motives that aren't almost as disturbing as "intentional loss of life."

Time will tell.
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Could be some disgruntled worker going 'postal'. But in this case they liked their co-workers (and innocent nearby humans) but despised the company, hence the warning.

Gunfire noise could be to wake people up and cops to come clear the area....then BOOM.
 
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JoeMorgue said:
especially since most reasons someone would do it are as a casualty multiplier for another attack.
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The only problem I see with that is, why the warning then? If the bomb goes off the technical disruptions will happen no matter how many people die from the explosion, which makes the effort of making the recording and providing a system to relay it - that is synced with the timing of the explosion, no less - a completely unnecessary complication. IF the intent is to cause these disruptions with the expectation that they will later contribute to a loss of life, why the lifesaving announcement during the initial attack?
 
JoeMorgue said:
Yeah but disrupting telecoms isn't the same thing as "harmless" especially since most reasons someone would do it are as a casualty multiplier for another attack.

Sure it could be some lone nut who thinks the Democrats had a child sex dungeon or whatever, but if we move beyond "Lone nut" it doesn't leave a lot of motives that aren't almost as disturbing as "intentional loss of life."

Time will tell.
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Or don't get me wrong. the people who did this need to go up the riiver for a long, long,time.
In fact, if you are looking for somehting smiliar, you have to go back to some of the infrasture attacks the Weatherman and similiar groups made on infrastructure in the 1970'.s.
 
Checkmite said:
Indeed I'm reading that now.



On one Nashville local news broadcast they just brought up the fact that it's interesting all of these outages and problems have developed in the hours after the explosion, rather than occurring immediately after the explosion and the physical damage it caused.
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Some of the att equipment was running on emergency generators. Authorities ordered that the generators be shut down.

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8enotto said:
The vehicle will be traced back to an owner, or last known owner within a day. From there a chain of events can be constructed. The explosive will be identified and possibly back to a source.

Barring anyone taking credit for this the event will be traced back to someone fairly quickly.
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because they wouldn't steal one, or buy one with fake ID or cash.
 
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