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25 Dec 2020, 5:18 pm

https://torontosun.com/news/world/vehic ... tional-act

Who’s it gonna turn out to be? Some victim of a country song who lost his job, home, wife, and dog? Maybe another MAGA bomber? Hmm


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25 Dec 2020, 5:39 pm

Why "annual"?

Does Nashville get at bomb every Xmas?



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25 Dec 2020, 5:41 pm

What We Know So Far:

• Around 1:22 am CT, a suspicious vehicle entered the area around 2nd avenue in downtown Nashville. Initial reports suggested that the car was actually an RV, and it has now been confirmed that the vehicle indeed appears to have been an RV.

• Metro Nashville Police Department officers were responding to a call of shots fired around 5:30 a.m. CT Friday when they found a motor home parked in front of an AT&T transmission building at 166 2nd Avenue North.

• A recorded message from inside the RV indicated a bomb would explode in 15 minutes.

• The explosion caused significant damage but no serious injuries to anyone nearby. Multiple social media users in the area report that they felt the blast miles away.

• The FBI is now investigating the bombing which indicates a potential terror plot of some kind.

• Three people have been hospitalized but they’re not believed to be in serious condition.

• Nobody has claimed responsibility on social media including Twitter; Facebook, Telegram, or Whatsapp groups, or local media channels.

• New data are being analyzed and confirmed as they come in.


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25 Dec 2020, 6:09 pm

WHY for heavens sake would you bomb nashville , uhm.. what stragegic important value , would possibly be related
Bad music. Poor sounding voice ? .


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25 Dec 2020, 6:32 pm

naturalplastic wrote:
Why "annual"?

Does Nashville get at bomb every Xmas?


Because there are terrorist bombings ~every Christmas. Usually somewhere in the Middle East vs US soil, but it’s still an ~annual headline.


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25 Dec 2020, 6:32 pm

Jakki wrote:
WHY for heavens sake would you bomb nashville , uhm.. what stragegic important value , would possibly be related
Bad music. Poor sounding voice ? .


Well, a few suggestions:

1. Someone wanted to launch a symbolic attack at the The AT&T building (The tallest building in Tennessee).
2. Someone didn't like Dolly Parton (who lives in Nashville)
3. Someone wanted to take down the secret Chinese underground Clinton-Soros-Fauci-Gates-Bilderberg-NWO bioweapons lab in the city.
4. Someone was in it for the LULZ.
5. Someone was tired of those goddamn kids next door making so much noise.



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25 Dec 2020, 6:38 pm

I wonder if it has something to do with 5G and covid.



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25 Dec 2020, 6:50 pm

Whatever the perpetrators' purpose, they certainly learned the effects of their effort,
https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/l ... 045278001/

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AT&T outage: Planes grounded, 911 disrupted in wake of Nashville explosion.
Mariah Timms Nashville Tennessean
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AT&T internet and phone service were disrupted in the area about 12 p.m. Friday. The outages continued into the evening.

Users around the country reported disruptions in service, but there was a concentration in the Nashville area and Middle Tennessee, growing in reach from Kentucky to Alabama as more reports came in.
911 access, flights grounded

A handful of local police departments reported the outage was disrupting 911 access, including some non-emergency lines, in their jurisdictions. Most took to social media to share landlines and alternate access numbers where residents could seek emergency assistance.


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25 Dec 2020, 6:53 pm

Like you really give a s**t.


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25 Dec 2020, 6:55 pm

Shame.
I know some terrorists target popular places that are popular with Tourists.
With a strategy to ruin the tourism.

Which is a shame and shameful.
But hard to tell.

so many different people on the planet, so many people who are mentally unstable, driven by dark emotions.
Attachment.

It can be hard to ascertain why people do such acts.
It is really saddening, from an onlookers perspective, but also from the terrorists perspective.

As a person who commits such atrocities really isn't a happy person in themself and thus are also suffering.



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25 Dec 2020, 6:57 pm

Hmm, interesting,

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Cincinnati Police investigating RV outside Federal building 'out of an abundance of caution'
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Cincinnati Police said District 1 and CBS officers are on scene near the John Weld Peck Federal Building on 6th Street investigating an RV with the engine running.

Police said the van was reported to them by security and police at the Federal Building.

"Out of an abundance of caution, based on the incident in Tennessee we are using Explosive Detection K9s to clear the scene," officials said. "At this time there is nothing else indicating there is anything else of a suspicious nature."

An explosion rocked downtown Nashville early Christmas morning, an incident that rattled residents for miles and is being called "intentional" by authorities.

Fox19 reporters on the scene are reporting that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is on the scene. The Cincinnati Fire Department hazardous devices unit is also on scene.

As of 6:50 p.m., roads Downtown had reopened. Police had closed 6th Street, 7th Street and parts of Main and Sycamore due to the investigation.


https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2 ... 046345001/


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25 Dec 2020, 8:18 pm

There was already a thread about this.



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25 Dec 2020, 8:40 pm

Fortunate no lives were lost, a pity, however, the terrorists didn't take out music equipment .



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25 Dec 2020, 8:58 pm

Got an email from my brother who lives around an hour drive from Nashville; he said the blast damage took out his cellphone service.


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31 Dec 2020, 12:11 am

the whole thing is blinkin' eerie what with the recorded message countdown then playing "downtown" just before the blast.



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31 Dec 2020, 12:26 am

The best part is that only the bomber died. 8)


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