Posted on 12/26/2020 7:48:11 AM PST by USA Conservative
An explosion shook the largely deserted streets of downtown Nashville early Christmas morning, shattering windows, damaging buildings, and wounding three people. Authorities said they believed the blast was intentional. The FBI is leading the investigation.
The police came across a suspicious RV parked outside a nearby AT&T building near Second Avenue and Commerce Street before 6 a.m., when initially responding to calls of shots fired in the area, said Metro police spokesperson Don Aaron.
There was no immediate evidence of any shooting but officers alerted the department’s bomb squad, which was en route when a “significant explosion” happened about 30 minutes later, Aaron said.
Locals reported gunshots before the explosion as you can see in the video below:
Video of the explosion below:
The explosion of an RV parked near a transmission building in Nashville disrupted AT&T service in the region and caused a ground stop at the city’s main airport, officials said.
“We continue to work to restore service for customers in Nashville and the surrounding areas who were affected by this morning’s explosion,” AT&T spokesman Jim Greer said in a statement hours after the incident. “We have mobilized additional resources including our National Disaster Recovery team and are bringing in multiple portable cell sites to assist in the recovery efforts.”
AT&T is deploying portable cell towers to Nashville to support law enforcement and improve wireless service. CNN’s parent company, WarnerMedia, is owned by AT&T. An emergency responder cellular switch also exploded and shutdown the first net switch. For all not familiar with FirstNet/ATT
The FirstNet mission is to deploy, operate, maintain, and improve the first high-speed, nationwide wireless broadband network for first responders, public safety, … Many 1st responders have it.
Just two weeks ago AT&T scored a major win for FirstNet, landing a contract valued at around $92 million to provide FirstNet mobility services for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
The five-year deal is basically all new business for AT&T, according to Stacy Schwartz, VP of FirstNet Program at AT&T, and represents the largest commitment to FirstNet by a law enforcement or public safety agency to date.
“We’re extremely proud to be supporting a preeminent law enforcement agency like the FBI, we take a great deal of pride in working with them,” Schwartz told FierceWireless, adding that it’s a big accomplishment for AT&T and FirstNet.
Local patriots did post some interesting stuff and alleged that the target could have been the AT&T Nashville building, and why did someone target the building.
Some more context on the technical stuff:
The feds wouldn’t even let local PD in and the infrastructure engineers to fix it according to this brave patriot:
So bomb explodes damage AT&T building and the server farm it houses, along with switches, trunk lines, and much more. AT&T telecomms go offline throughout the Nashville region. Phones down, wifi down. Nashville airport cancels flights because comms are affected by this outage.
No doubt the FBI will make sense of this all in the end, but what will the Americans think about it?
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Intentional destruction by the left.
Nice to see there’s zero redundancy in the network.
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More likely it will politicize the investigation with leaks to its favorite media allies.
A nation-state with extensive cyber abilities would be able to do far more infrastructure damage than a small, poorly placed bomb in a US secondary city.....
Most server farms are in remote locations, partly because of cheap energy. I’m not going to tell you where they are, but I will say this:
1. Security is high.
2. They are surrounded by empty terrain.
3. The only kind of car bomb you can “casually park” near enough to them to do any damage would be a nuclear bomb.
Downdown locations for this stuff is no longer practical nor secure.
Well, either it is intentional destruction of the nework by someone, or an amazing stroke of luck.
I sincerely doubt that this was foreign-instigated or planned.
“The FBI is leading the investigation.”
I feel better already./s
They should have evidence showing Trump supporters were behind it by the end of next week.
/s/s
... part of the early attempt to cut-off patriots from each other ? or test.
If us patriots can not have internet and cell communication, think of the chaos that could ensue.
Emergency cell is just data, like Free Republic is just data.
What I find most suspicious is that CNN has yet to blame Trump for it
Most likely but the right will be blamed. This will be painted like OKC and Timothy McVeigh.
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The FBI will carefully filter information to the public through their preferred propaganda media mouth pieces.
Why just Nashville? They could have as easily done it simultaneously in dozens of cities.
“No doubt the FBI will make sense of this all in the end, but what will the Americans think about it?”
No worries, Americans will have a thousand crazy theories before lunch.
Well the FBI has probably been watching theses terrorists for the last 5 years, so it makes sense they take charge now.
They BELIEVE it was intentional? Audio from the van warns all that the van is going to explode. And they BELIEVE it was intentional?
The Keystone cops and reporters are Johnny-on-the-spot.
It was not a jihadist group, IMHO, because they warned people in the area. It may have been one of those three you mention. The Iranians are looking to avenge the Sulemeini killing. I don’t think it was Russia because they know that would start some serious retaliation. China? Maybe. Maybe they will try to make it look like Russia did it - they are good at that. How about an internal source (e.g. CIA)? Or perhaps another McVeigh type bombing? Would Antifa step up things to this level?
Lot of questions, few answers so far.
“Well, I’ll hazard I can do more damage on my laptop sitting in my pajamas before my first cup of Earl Grey than you can do in a year in the field”...”Q”/James Bond
It’s probably not a server farm that most people think of, it’s more likely a Central Office for all the data and voice circuits that run all over downtown Nashville, just like every other major metropolitan area.
A 911 call center is probably not located that far from the downtown area
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