Investigators have a Google Maps photo of the address of the person of interest that shows a similar looking camper in the yard. Google Maps says the picture was taken in May 2019.
oh god. the police have learned how to use google maps. criminals watch out.
it still seems notable to me that the police(*) rolled in, immediately shot and killed the white man who had killed a right wing protestor in oregon. im not holding my breath that anybody’s ever going to be held responsible. it’s almost like they have some specific political agenda.
(* i say police, but i guess their special task force included such well trained people as prison guards. because when you want something to go wrong you send your very best. )
When I heard this was in close proximity to a telecommunications hub and 911 services were comprimised, my first thought was maybe this was a dry run for another attack elsewhere. Disrupting regional communications in order to hamper police response seems tactically sound. Of course, now they have tipped their hand and other communications facilities will be more closely watched. On the other hand if these types of facilities haven’t been provided with adequate security up to now, what is the likelihood they be in the future?
If you want to disrupt telecommunications, its an unreliable way to do it. What if the data center’s UPS had actually worked? Or if the real gear had been three stories down in the car park?
A far better way would be to go after the data cables which feed the building. They will all be in pipes under the street, with inspection covers which you can just open (watch the opening scene in Sneakers).
A road worker with an auger once took out a chunk of our CCTV network, and he wasn’t even trying.
When aligning with Black movements in solidarity, then it’s far more likely they’ll be killed by the police. See Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner.
For the most part, white men committing crimes get much better treatment from law enforcement. the case of the guy they shot in Oregon is a case of the exception sort of proving the rule.
But it’s premature to even call it an explosion. There was a shock wave, superheated air, fire, a boom, and widespread damage. But maybe each of those things happened independently and the timing was mere coincidence? /s
The 15-minute warning makes that a curious possibility. An AI-directed meteorite, previously undetected, that beams a message ahead. Wasn’t that scenario in an X-MEN comic?
The IRA had a mixed bag of attacks. From bombings and mortar attacks with no warning, to large car bombs with plenty of warning, to coordinated complex attacks.
The late '80’s saw the car bomb with warning type gain more prominence as it was seen to show the IRA in a more sympathetic light overseas and helped with fundraising in the USA. Even with warnings, the risk of grave injury was never eliminated (someone posted earlier about the Omagh bombing by the “Real IRA”).
Then you have the Enniskillen bombing of 1987. It killed a bunch of elderly civilians, drove away Libyan support, ruined the IRAs image and became immortalized in the concert film Rattle and Hum with a rant by Bono.
I fully expect that to be the case. That said, I’m not speculating until someone official says things. The state of tennessee has handled covid disasterously, resulting in the worst case management in the nation. Hundreds of thousands of people lost their jobs in the state, and the state’s “pick yourself up by the bootstraps” mentality has put people in very desperate positions. AT&T employs a huge number of people and fired a lot of them this year in the state.
So yeah, while I fully wouldn’t be surprised if it’s a Trumper, I also wouldn’t be surprised if it was just a random guy who got shit-canned and was about to lose everything, getting no help from his state, and decided to do some damage on his way out.
If this was organized as an infrastructure attack by parties outside the US, I guess it is iffy with the current administration as to whether we will hear what really happened at all.
