<story><title>ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville</title><url>https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/2020/12/25/att-outage-internet-down-hours-after-nashville-explosion/4045278001/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joshuakelly</author><text>While that&amp;#x27;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: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=iag6cTWpgq8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=iag6cTWpgq8&lt;/a&gt;. 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&amp;#x27;t sound like the kind of thing you would do if your primary intent was to inflict loss of life.</text></item><item><author>tptacek</author><text>AT&amp;amp;T says that their services went down along with the gas &amp;amp; power in the area, as a side effect: the gas shutoff cut off their backup generators. That doesn&amp;#x27;t sound all that targeted.</text></item><item><author>joshuakelly</author><text>This article doesn&amp;#x27;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: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nytimes.com&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;25&amp;#x2F;us&amp;#x2F;nashville-explosion.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nytimes.com&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;25&amp;#x2F;us&amp;#x2F;nashville-explosion.ht...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Obviously a telecommunications&amp;#x2F;switch hub, with it being a large windowless building in a downtown core.&lt;p&gt;The other thing that&amp;#x27;s particularly odd is the fact that the attackers appear to have broadcasted some sort of warning or evacuation message from the site of the bombing prior to the explosion.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bigbubba</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;How often do we hear about bombings where the bombers broadcast an evacuation message on a loudspeaker for 15 minutes prior to the explosion?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is how the Provisional Irish Republican Army operated, at least some of the time. For instance they telephoned in warnings 90 minutes before the 1996 Manchester bombing (1500 kg bomb, 212 injuries and no fatalities.)  I&amp;#x27;ve read somewhere they had established codewords with British authorities so those authorities knew which warnings to take seriously.</text></comment>
<story><title>ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville</title><url>https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/2020/12/25/att-outage-internet-down-hours-after-nashville-explosion/4045278001/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joshuakelly</author><text>While that&amp;#x27;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: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=iag6cTWpgq8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=iag6cTWpgq8&lt;/a&gt;. 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&amp;#x27;t sound like the kind of thing you would do if your primary intent was to inflict loss of life.</text></item><item><author>tptacek</author><text>AT&amp;amp;T says that their services went down along with the gas &amp;amp; power in the area, as a side effect: the gas shutoff cut off their backup generators. That doesn&amp;#x27;t sound all that targeted.</text></item><item><author>joshuakelly</author><text>This article doesn&amp;#x27;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: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nytimes.com&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;25&amp;#x2F;us&amp;#x2F;nashville-explosion.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nytimes.com&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;25&amp;#x2F;us&amp;#x2F;nashville-explosion.ht...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Obviously a telecommunications&amp;#x2F;switch hub, with it being a large windowless building in a downtown core.&lt;p&gt;The other thing that&amp;#x27;s particularly odd is the fact that the attackers appear to have broadcasted some sort of warning or evacuation message from the site of the bombing prior to the explosion.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>uxp100</author><text>I think bombers broadcasting warning messages is somewhat more common with certain types of political violence. I know weather underground bombings tried to choose times for their bombings when buildings would not be inhabited, not always successfully.</text></comment>