Re:ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville
by Guthur on Friday December 25, 2020 @09:59PM
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There are many strategies that don't necessarily involve large human collateral damage but are still politically motivated.
The Provisonsal IRA in N. Ireland during the Troubles was often times either targeting security forces, collaborators or commerical activity. Ostensibly the goal was to make the UKs continued involvement in N. Ireland untenable from an economic and political stand point. The IRA was quite aware that too many indiscriminate killing of N.Ireland civilians would be detrimental to their cause.
Re:ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville
by PIKAL on Saturday December 26, 2020 @12:11AM
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But I don’t even need to look it up to know that they made absolutely sure to get credit for every single bombing. Why is that missing here?
Re:ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville
by Guthur on Saturday December 26, 2020 @01:13AM
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Most certainly, well most of the time anyway unless it was particularly botched.
I'm actually not meaning to claim that this particular incident is political at all.
Re:ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville
by im3w1l on Friday December 25, 2020 @11:39PM
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> The fact that nobody has claimed responsibility makes no sense.
It could be an enemy country probing for weakness. The goal would simply be intel / seeing what will happen.
Re:ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville
by PIKAL on Saturday December 26, 2020 @12:09AM
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At the risk of triggering a war with the most powerful military in the world?
Re:ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville
by cinquemb on Friday December 25, 2020 @10:20PM
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> And I would guess he was in the vehicle when it exploded.
Yeah, because moving an RV remotely is impossible with today's tech…
It can’t be political. Every day that goes by without someone claiming responsibility, the probability of it being political decreases exponentially.
But at the same time, this doesn’t seem like the work of a lone wolf. Lone wolfs usually try to kill people. And almost invariably they fail miserably, killing practically no people at all compared to the number of people that would have been killed at the hands of someone smart or competent with a weapon. And bombs stand out as being difficult for lone wolves to get right. For a lone wolf to build a working bomb and detonation system and have everything work perfectly the first time would be the exception, although not the only one.
This was done by one person. Not a typical lone wolf but someone who was smart and methodical. And I would guess he was in the vehicle when it exploded. He was either insane ala templeOS, had no motive ala Mandalay bay, or a disgruntled employee.