Betcha they had been following this guy. Fortunately, he seems to have been the usual case of jihadi premature detonation.
I wonder where he planned to pull off the attack? I’m not even remotely familiar with the area. If it was “just one” Molotov cocktail, it may have been something like a recruiting station or a symbolic attack of some kind. On the other hand, he may not have been working alone, and even a symbolic attack can kill people.
He can think about it on the burn ward.
What's the shelf life of a bottle of gasoline with a rag stuck in it?
Hours? Days?
How far can it be safely transported?
Blocks? Miles?
This is pretty near the heart of ‘nice’ downtown / midtown Atlanta. 10th Street runs east-west, and crosses I-75/85, the downtown connector. The west side there is the Ga Tech campus. So he was essentially in next-to-campus housing, and a short walk to the student center, the Army ROTC building, or across the bridge to any number of running-dog capitalist Great Satan company buildings.
CNN itself is way south of campus, but the Cartoon network is close ;-)
The Coca Cola building is on the south edge of campus, but it has been a secure compound for years, and he’d have to have an arm like a major league right fielder to do any damage to the building itself.
Who knows?