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ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville
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Re: ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville
#52Reportedly, there was a visible countdown timer on the vehicle that exploded, and an audible warning played for 15-20 minutes prior to the blast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nygTJeu9fU
> officers and witnesses heard a broadcast coming from the RV giving a dire warning: “Evacuate now. There is a bomb. A bomb is in this vehicle and will explode." Then, the voice started a 15-minute countdown. Metro Police Chief John Drake said the six officers at the scene quickly began to evacuate the area, going door-to-door. They redirected a man walking his dog along the street. This is surreal. Almost a scene fr…
Was pretty common (though not consistent) for the IRA to phone ahead to warn where they'd put bombs.
Re: ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville
#53Reportedly, there was a visible countdown timer on the vehicle that exploded, and an audible warning played for 15-20 minutes prior to the blast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nygTJeu9fU
Local TV News managed to interview a neighbor from directly across the street where the explosion occurred[1]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iag6cTWpgq8
Interesting things to consider.
1) I heard something about "fake reports" about gunshots. But maybe the perp shot off some guns just to get the cops to show up?
2) This woman stuck around for 15 minutes or a half hour while this thing was saying "you need to evacuate, this has a bomb"???
3) This woman recalls a male voice but the news played a female voice. This goes to show how bad our memories are!
Re: ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville
#54Timing on Christmas and the lengthy list of security systems that rely upon ATT.. makes me wonder. Some variety of a Heist? Seems it wouldn’t be market related given mkts already closed. This is far fetched, yeah. Maybe it was just someone who hates 5G.
Coupled with the evacuation warning (edit: and early morning timing), presumably Christmas was chosen because the fewest number of people would be in the building and/or out and about.
For the record, I think this attack was unjustified and Operation Opera[0] was justified, but when Israel bombed the Osirak reactor, they did it on a Sunday to minimize the number of French civilians in the building.
Re: ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sensible call on the generator fuel. Thanks for thinking of it.
I would think buried utilities, they lost power?
Power loss could have been from the blast, which destroyed underground water pipes. Or they may have turned off power to the area for safety reasons.
Re: ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville
#56This article doesn't make this so explicit, but ATT infrastructure appears to be the intentional target of the bombing. You can see the building in the helicopter shot at the top of the NYTimes article on the story: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/25/us/nashville-explosion.ht... Obviously a telecommunications/switch hub, with it being a large windowless building in a downtown core. The other thing that's particularly…
AT&T says that their services went down along with the gas & power in the area, as a side effect: the gas shutoff cut off their backup generators. That doesn't sound all that targeted.
Could just be good planning if they knew that was procedure after an explosion.
Re: ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville
#57This article doesn't make this so explicit, but ATT infrastructure appears to be the intentional target of the bombing. You can see the building in the helicopter shot at the top of the NYTimes article on the story: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/25/us/nashville-explosion.ht... Obviously a telecommunications/switch hub, with it being a large windowless building in a downtown core. The other thing that's particularly…
AT&T says that their services went down along with the gas & power in the area, as a side effect: the gas shutoff cut off their backup generators. That doesn't sound all that targeted.
While that's true, I think two factors strongly indicate that this was targeted at the ATT building. The first observation is, of course, that the ATT building was the closest to the explosion. A direct witness to the RV broadcasting the evacuation message, who lives across the street, describes this fact: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iag6cTWpgq8. The second observation is the evacuation message itself. How often do we hear about bombings where the bombers broadcast an evacuation message on a loudspeaker for 15 minutes prior to the explosion? Telling people to evacuate doesn't sound like the kind of thing you would do if your primary intent was to inflict loss of life.
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
AT&T says that their services went down along with the gas & power in the area, as a side effect: the gas shutoff cut off their backup generators. That doesn't sound all that targeted.
While that's true, I think two factors strongly indicate that this was targeted at the ATT building. The first observation is, of course, that the ATT building was the closest to the explosion. A direct witness to the RV broadcasting the evacuation message, who lives across the street, describes this fact: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iag6cTWpgq8 . The second observation is the evacuation message itself. How often…
It was also around 6am that the bomb went off and the ‘gun shot‘ alarm clock was 4ish
Re: ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville
#60Anti-5G crazies? T-Mobile partisans?
Speculation at this point will get us nowhere. If there were some reason like "5g bad" or "dont kill movie theatres" (regarding HBO max release of WW1984) there would be a video from the bomber pushing their message since, otherwise, this looks like any other terror attack.