{"id":175674,"date":"2020-12-27T22:28:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-28T03:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/12\/27\/nashville-bombing-update\/"},"modified":"2020-12-27T22:28:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T03:28:00","slug":"nashville-bombing-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/12\/27\/nashville-bombing-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Nashville Bombing Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<div style=\"border-color: black; border-image: none; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 330px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Zx06XNfDvk0\" width=\"320\"><\/iframe><br \/><i>Profoundly Odd<\/i><\/div>\n<p>And it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2020\/12\/27\/nashville-explosion-anthony-warner\/\">has gotten profoundly weird<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>First, it appears that this was a suicide bombing with the remaining tissue samples found on site being identified as Anthony Quinn Warner , a 63-year old &#8220;IT Guy&#8221;, who transferred his house to some random woman in California in late November, and the truck was blaring the Petula Clark song <i>Downtown<\/i> before it detonated.<\/p>\n<p>There are also scattered reports that the bombing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2020\/dec\/27\/nashville-blast-investigators-examine-5g-paranoia\">might have been motivated by 5G conspiracy theories<\/a>:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">Anthony Quinn Warner was responsible for the Christmas morning explosion that rocked downtown Nashville, officials said Sunday, and he was killed in the blast.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators matched human remains found at the scene with Warner\u2019s DNA, confirming suspicions that he blew himself up in a recreational vehicle, Tennessee Bureau of Investigation Director David Rausch told reporters. Law enforcement said they were still investigating a motive behind the incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Warner, 63, was unmarried and rarely ventured from his home, according to neighbors, living for years with his parents and then by himself. He once owned an alarm company, and he protected his home with an array of security cameras, rarely returning a neighborly wave and not responding to an offer of Christmas dinner, neighbors said in interviews.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>In November, Warner transferred his property at 115 Bakertown Rd. to a Los Angeles woman for \u201c$0,\u201d according to property records of a quitclaim deed. The woman said in a brief telephone interview that the FBI told her not to discuss the matter and declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>A Nashville real estate firm, Fridrich &amp; Clark Realty, confirmed that Warner worked there as a computer consultant for about 15 years before announcing his retirement earlier this month. \u201cThe Tony Warner we knew is a nice person who never exhibited any behavior which was less than professional,\u201d co-owner Steve Fridrich wrote in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The officers heard a strange recorded warning, which started to play a 15-minute countdown, coming from the RV. Officers started knocking on doors, contacting dispatch to get access codes to buildings, clearing them floor by floor, warning residents who answered to gather family members and safely evacuate. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s stuff that I\u2019ll never forget, the sound of the announcement saying \u2026 \u2018Evacuate now,\u2019\u201d said Amanda Topping, one of five officers who spoke to reporters during a morning news conference. \u201cJust odd. And I\u2019m pacing back and forth because I kept on having to turn pedestrians around.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The RV began to play music \u2014 officer Tyler Luellen told reporters he later learned it was \u201cDowntown\u201d by Petula Clark. The officers prepared themselves, some going back to their cars for heavier gear.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>While it is unknown whether the AT&amp;T building was the intended target, experts on critical infrastructure said the Christmas morning episode makes clear that federal and local authorities and the private sector ought to find ways to reduce their vulnerability, either through moving key pieces to more fortified locations or building in redundancies.<br \/><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As Alice Liddell would say, &#8220;Curiouser and Curiouser.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Profoundly Odd And it has gotten profoundly weird.&nbsp; First, it appears that this was a suicide bombing with the remaining tissue samples found on site being identified as Anthony Quinn Warner , a 63-year old &#8220;IT Guy&#8221;, who transferred his house to some random woman in California in late November, and the truck was blaring &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[482,373,421],"class_list":["post-175674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-breaking-news","tag-terrorism","tag-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175674"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}