Explosion in Nashville, TN

[RJ]

It is Nashville...

I've only been once...we were en route with my used '09 E92 M3 I'd bought in Indianapolis, back to Atlanta and decided to make a weekend stop in Nashville. We stayed in the JW Marriott (on points) downtown, and had a hell of a time. I recall a couple nights listening to various bands in bars and such like. A good few Jack and Cokes were consumed. We found it very enjoyable.

Back on topic: I hope they find the assholes who did this.

[HCM]

It is Nashville...

The Austin of TN.

[Totem Polar]

Video of alleged recording being reported by eyewitnesses adjacent to the RV prior to blast.

Yeah, I’m gonna go with “intentional...”

[ffhounddog]

I bet it will be liberals pissed off at businesses for staying open because unlike the coasts where people want to live in fear due to C19 these people are trying to live life and provide for their families.

[EPF]

To show the nation your capabilities.

You can also use it as PSYOPS.

Example: You put 10 units of explosives in a car. Car goes BOOM. You tell the world. That was just 3 units. Next time we will use 10 units if you don't do what we tell you. People start having fits of the vapors.

Also, the bad guys (BGs) get to gather intel. They watch response times, who responds, where they respond to and how. Basically the First Responder's TTPs (Tactics Training and Procedures). This intel then can be used against them in future operations.

When they don't kill any civilians, they retain support of a certain element of population that supports a Socialist revolution.

ETC, ETC.

Lots of reasons to set off the bomb when and where they did.

Too bad it did not go off prematurely while they were setting it up...

I would predict more of this in the near years to come as the Socialist/Communists become more bold.

That may have been their intention, but luckily for us this will be a one time event for the bad guys. As you probably know, the technologies we developed in the IED fight overseas will make short work of back-tracing this device, if the downtown surveillance cameras don’t already do the job.

We can take some solace in knowing the turd behind this will spend New Years behind bars or dead.

[farscott]

Not sure if there is a linkage, but the RV was in front of an AT&T facility. And many AT&T customers in the southeast are reporting issues. The AT&T mobile phone network is suffering from outages centered around Nashville. All the way from Lexington, KY, to Memphis, TN, to Atlanta, GA. https://downdetector.com/status/att/map/

[revchuck38]

That may have been their intention, but luckily for us this will be a one time event for the bad guys. As you probably know, the technologies we developed in the IED fight overseas will make short work of back-tracing this device, if the downtown surveillance cameras don’t already do the job.

We can take some solace in knowing the turd behind this will spend New Years behind bars or dead.

The bad guys have learned too. I hope you're right, but I'm not as confident as you are.

[TC215]

Not sure if there is a linkage, but the RV was in front of an AT&T facility. And many AT&T customers in the southeast are reporting issues. The AT&T mobile phone network is suffering from outages centered around Nashville. All the way from Lexington, KY, to Memphis, TN, to Atlanta, GA. https://downdetector.com/status/att/map/

Media is saying the AT&T location is a “transmission building.”

[Tennessee Jed]

I'm in the Nashville area. Local news is reporting that 911 service is down for some AT&T customers in the area.

(ETA: "some" AT&T customers)

[EPF]

The bad guys have learned too. I hope you're right, but I'm not as confident as you are.

I don’t mean to sound glib at all, it’s just a fact that building a bomb and detonating it on American soil is a one time deal. Our incredible impotence in overcoming the political and governance issues with foreign occupations did not stop the incredible American ingenuity from being applied to the technical problem. We have unbelievable abilities with detonated devices. I don’t want to go into specifics in an open environment.