Police: Nashville Explosion Believed To Be An “Intentional Act”


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NC Scout is the nom de guerre of a former Infantry Scout and Sergeant in one of the Army’s best Reconnaissance Units. He has combat tours in both Iraq and Afghanistan. He teaches a series of courses focusing on small unit skills rarely if ever taught anywhere else in the prepping and survival field, including his RTO Course which focuses on small unit communications. In his free time he is an avid hunter, bushcrafter, writer, long range shooter, prepper, amateur radio operator and Libertarian activist. He can be contacted at [email protected] or via his blog at brushbeater.wordpress.com .

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  1. Anonymous December 26, 2020 at 07:42

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  2. Johnny Paratrooper December 26, 2020 at 08:48

    Right in front of the AT&T building?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iag6cTWpgq8

    This witness sounds VERY credible. She tell’s the whole story. I have listened twice. Lots of great information.

  3. Matt Bracken December 26, 2020 at 09:45

    No crater, lots of broken windows. I’m wondering what the explosive was? ANFO? Or even just a gas bomb: fill the RV (high interior volume) with gas and ignite it? Position in a “concrete canyon” contains the pressure wave for maximum pressure wave damage. If the bomber did not suicide himself inside, is there video of him leaving the RV? Many questions, few answers, and nobody trusts FLE in the least to tell us the truth.

    • NC Scout December 26, 2020 at 09:54

      If I had to guess I’d say it was ANFO in small-ish containers connected in series (only way to rig it in an RV).

      The charring looks like an ANFO blast from the handful of pics I’ve seen.

      • Johnny Paratrooper December 26, 2020 at 10:38

        I have ZERO explosives training except how to respond to your typical day in Baghdad(Of which there were many; cause Baghdad)

        No-one reports any gassing issues in the area or downwind. And the smoke rises nearly straight up, which implies little to no wind(Maybe 2-3 miles per hour). I think I remember first responders have to wait for ANFO gasses to clear out before responding or you risk damaging your lungs. There are lots of videos of people filming nearby after right after the blast. They would be choked out if it was ANFO or Black Powder.

        1) If it was Black Powder there would be unburned powder EVERYWHERE and we would see a lot more smoke in videos. Including the symptoms of choking and stinging eyes.
        2) Reports of real, not recorded, series 5-6 very loud gunshots-twice(AR?)
        3) Multiple warnings using a female’s voice. (Psychologically more convincing)
        4) My bet is on high octane aviation/racing fuel and tannerite. All of which are readily available in the area.
        5) The countdown for “15 minutes” took more like 22-25 minutes. Which means someone was checking the area to make sure it’s clear. I’m guessing they waited for some local police, or citizens, to clear out. And then shot the tannerite charge.

        Judging by the spread of the debris, it looks like a scaled up tannerite blast relative to what my buddies and I have achieved in PA.

        There is a tread here.

        https://twitter.com/FordFischer/status/1342574792227094528

        Read the whole thing. VERY curious. Sounds like an honest to god lone wolf random act. Or, they did a great job creating the impression of a lone nut. This appears to be legit to me.

        • NC Scout December 26, 2020 at 10:55

          The damage to lungs comes from blast overpressure. All explosives exhibit gasses as part of the exothermic reaction. Its part and parcel of why it does what it does. EOD teams would hold back with the cordon elements to make sure any secondary detonations were cleared. Done it once or twice (the wrong way as well). It definitely was not tannerite (ANAL). There was too much flame. Further, that much tannerite would be hideously unstable, too dangerous to drive around with. Any amount of tannerite is unstable, that’s why it does what it does.

          Since exploitation tells us everything we need to know about an attack of this type, and there still appears to be none, there’s little else to be said.

      • SOG December 26, 2020 at 10:49

        https://twitter.com/AwakenedOutlaw/status/1342518794606968833

        weird post from HRC note key words Warm (hot) healthy (minimal human casualties) Small scale (lite bombing) and Christmas date to act.
        not 1993 post card or Christmas Photo, references same MO in 93 vehicle born
        twitter is how they communicate and activate

        https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1342521448414539782

        audio warning with countdown,

        https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1342535264950956032

        reports of firefight prior

        https://twitter.com/Questio36070692/status/1342585653540888579/photo/2
        intentional infrastructure attack?

        • Johnny Paratrooper December 26, 2020 at 15:05

          That’s SUPER Weird. Using an old 1993 Christmas Card?
          Weird.

      • Matt Bracken December 26, 2020 at 11:30

        IMHO, even a few 100# of ANFO would have left a visible crater several feet deep and 20 feet wide under the RV.
        I’m sticking with a fuel-air “gas bomb” until proven otherwise. That’s the purpose of the RV: to contain a large gas cloud. A hundred # of ANFO would have been much more easily concealed in a van or even a car. Even just 100# of ANFO (roughly equals 30# of C-4) would have left a crater.

        I think this was a fuel-air gas bomb, propane or another gas released into a container and ignited. “The method was the message.”

        Our enemies who would love to see the USA destroy itself in a CW would like all sides in that conflict to know just how easy it is to pull off a Nashville. I would not rule out the CCP, using radical Antifa/BLM/RevCom stooges.

        I don’t see Christian conservatives detonating a bomb on Christmas, and Islamic terrorists would not have given a warning, they would have gone for max casualties.

        • NC Scout December 26, 2020 at 11:38

          Depends on how it was mixed. The ratio was probably wrong, if it was ANFO. A propane, or fuel air detonation would have been extremely unstable as well, but not to the point that Tannerite would have.

          Of the actors, I have zero doubt who the culprit is.

          • Matt Bracken December 26, 2020 at 11:50

            Back in the day, I had very extensive training in this area, from soup to nuts. If it was ANFO and badly mixed, it would not have done the distant pressure wave damage that we saw in Nashville. That much damage in Nashville from ANFO would have left a crater, no doubt about it. It’s just chemistry and physics. The ATF knew exactly what it was and how much of it to within 10% an hour after they arrived on scene, for certain. Now, it’s all on a smart phone. Back in the day, it was on little circular slide rule tools. Take some samples, make some measurements, and they know what it was and how much in under an hour.

            There is nothing “unstable” about releasing a gas cloud into a sealed container like an RV with all openings sealed with silicone etc, just leaving one door with good rubber gaskets for the driver to exit. All the rest is remote control. Read the Miami example, that damage was done from 10 cubic feet of gas released in trash bins. The Nashville RV could contain a thousand cubic feet. No need to purchase controlled demolition materials.

            I would not count on the FLEAs to tell us the truth, even if I am correct. They would rather put out a story that makes the Nashville explosion seem like it was very hard to pull off, requiring high explosives etc. The last thing they want people to know is what I wrote about in the Miami comment. IMHO, in Nashville, “the method is the message.”

          • NC Scout December 26, 2020 at 12:04

            I’ve got extensive training in it too. Thermobaric weapons, based on gas vapors, are horribly unstable. Everyone who’s ever dealt with a ruptured gas line knows this. What you described would not have made it very far- the friction from the brakes alone would have made it risky enough and that’s just one factor. And ANFO doesn’t require a stick of dynamite to detonate, all it needs is a small amount of urea nitrate and a battery. Been there, done that, survived it and get free checkups from the VA every six months now.

            The crater or the lack thereof depends as much on the composition of the city street as it does the composition of the charge.

            Not saying you’re wrong, but a gas-based charge seems very unlikely in a motorized vehicle.

          • Johnny Paratrooper December 26, 2020 at 14:38

            What if it (ANFO) was stacked in an “L” shape facing into the target building with the fuel cradled inside of the “L”? That would explain the extensive damage to the one facade of the commercial building across of the the AT&T center.
            Directional flame weapons are potent, and well understood. Did you watch the cellphone video of the officer clearing the scene before the explosion? It almost looks like the blast occurs in the center of the street, next to the RV. Which sounds directional to me. Watch the video frame by frame. Obviously, it’s to slow of a frame rate to catch the whole blast, but it kinda looks right.

            If the ignition trigger was placed at the bottom of the “L” that would direct most of the blast up, and over, into the building. Potentially preventing a crater. Watch the video frame by frame. There is a bright flash, and then the explosion is basically in the middle of the street.

            https://twitter.com/RTerriers2/status/1342565069180162048

            Not trying be annoying, or contradictory. Just brain storming because they aren’t gonna tell us anything.
            I think they used this as an excuse to destroy, or steal, servers(the tray, not the rack at least) in Tennessee. Server cabinets are heavy. Obviously you would just take the rack. The FBI blocked out the Local PD(Which is absolutely NOT SOP).

          • NC Scout December 26, 2020 at 16:10

            They absolutely made it a directional blast.

    • SOG December 26, 2020 at 10:50

      you called it! irish troubles, weatherunderground etc… expect more of these events

  4. Anonymous December 26, 2020 at 10:01

    4.5

  5. Matt Bracken December 26, 2020 at 11:16

    For historical and educational purposes only:

    In the mid 1980s, Americans were allowed to visit Cuba by taking flights via the Bahamas or Mexico. The travel agencies in South Florida which arranged these trips were not popular with the anti-Castro Cubans. A simple and clever method was used to attack several of these agencies on the same night. Big plastic commercial-size 2-wheeled trash bins were placed by the sidewalk windows of the agencies. These rolling trash bins run from 60 to 100 gallons in volume, so call them 80. They looked innocent when placed outside a business at night.

    A simple camping gas bottle was opened at the bottom, and a plumber’s candle was taped near the top. The lid of the bin kept the candle from blowing out, or the rising gas from blowing away, and the lid hid the candle light from view. But the lid did not totally seal the bin, so the candle would keep burning. The rising gas reaches the lit candle, and BOOM.

    These simple trash bin gas bombs totally gutted the travel agencies, blowing out their interior walls and ceilings. The businesses on either side were heavily damaged also. (This happened without the greater effect of the gas bomb trash bin being located in a tight alley with walls on either side, that is, there was no “tamping” effect to contain and amplify the blast wave.)

    Now move from Miami in the 1980s to Nashville at the end of 2020 and do some SWAG extrapolation, from an 80-gallon wheeled plastic trash bin, to a pretty big RV. The Nashville bomber/s didn’t detonate a propane tank full of liquid propane in the tank, he/they just let the bottles fill the entire RV with a thick cloud of gas. The trash bins that totally wrecked the travel agencies contained a max of about ten cubic feet of gas upon ignition. A rough guess of the interior of the RV might be 20’L X 8’W X 6’H or 960 cubic feet, or call it a thousand. One hundred times the volume of flammable gas in the Miami trash bins.

    Possibly the bomber/s used acetylene instead of propane for a bigger blast, because I seem to have seen some pictures of a rising fireball in Nashville. I’m ruling out high explosives, or even a low-explosive like ANFO, because there was no crater. (TNT is the yardstick of explosives, given a power factor of 1.0. C-4 is rated at 1.4, and ANFO, depending on its quality and “mix,” is rated about 0.4.) But even ANFO would have left a crater under the RV.

    My Boxing Day musing is that “the method was the message” in Nashville. The FLEAs already know exactly what happened, the chemical signature will be as clear as a bell. For example, if my theory is correct, they will already know precisely what type of gas was used. This is the “message” of the blast: that a gas bomb in a vehicle is something that anybody can put together. Even ANFO requires a stick of dynamite or a bundle of blasting caps to detonate, and these are tightly controlled. But anybody can steal or rent a truck or van and obtain bottles of propane. (Acetylene is also readily available, but it would be more trackable.) A regular workman’s van would fall between the trash bin (10 cubic feet) and the RV (a thousand) and would be much lower profile than the big Nashville RV. If a van is parked in a tight alley, the “tamping effect” of containing the blast between walls will increase the damage.

    The IRA forced the Brits to negotiate a peace deal when they began to park car bombs in London, at night, usually with warnings to minimize civilian casualties. They were economic bombs, blowing out thousands of plate-glass windows in “The City of London,” the mile-square financial district. In Nashville, the AT&T building (the standard NSA cover, to the uninitiated), was the immediate target, but the real purpose of Nashville might have been “educational.”

  6. ConSigCor December 26, 2020 at 12:28

    ATT service is down in Nashville and surrounding counties. KY state police are also reporting that their system is down since the blast.

    • Johnny Paratrooper December 26, 2020 at 14:57

      Interesting.
      Data centers require coolant. Not always antifreeze depending on the area, local laws, and system.
      It was very cold last night. Probably having freezing problems because the front of the building was missing.
      Popped off the day before a massive cold front moves in. It’s possible the Christmas connection was just coincidence.

      https://journal.uptimeinstitute.com/a-look-at-data-center-cooling-technologies/

      “In legacy data center designs, heated air from servers mixes with other air in the space and eventually makes its way back to a CRAC/CRAH unit. The air transfers its heat, via a coil, to a fluid within the CRAC/CRAH. In the case of a CRAC, the fluid is a refrigerant. In the case of a CRAH, the fluid is chilled water. The refrigerant or chilled water removes the heat from the space. The air coming out of the CRAC/CRAH often has a discharge temperature of 55-60°F (13-15.5°C). The CRAC/CRAH blows the air into a raised floor plenum—typically using constant-speed fans. The standard CRAC/CRAH configuration from many manufacturers and designers controls the unit’s cooling based on return air temperature.”

      I believe Obama’s EPA made these perforated floor systems illegal in 2011.

      It’s possible the cooling system is broken. So they turned the system off.
      Been there, done that for demolition and construction reasons.
      Same reasons. Freezing temps and Dust getting into the system sans the VBIED[Chuckles]

  7. Johnny Paratrooper December 26, 2020 at 12:46

    For the record, he pulled in around 1:30am.
    That’s 4 hours to mix tannerite or produce a vapor bomb like Matt described.
    Vapor would likely have been triggered by the electronics from the warning siren and the gunshots.

    Also, there is video clearly showing the vehicle detonating as soon as an officer is clear of his initial investigation of the blast.

    Also, I didn’t know tannerite was so unstable.
    How do we explain the hell of a fireball and the burning fires post blast?

    • NC Scout December 26, 2020 at 12:54

      Tannerite, which is watered-down Ammonium nitrate and aluminum powder, is extremely unstable. It literally tells you this on the package. Once you’ve mixed the binary, don’t drop it. Its better to leave that crap alone…or maybe because I’ve been blown up. I have a severe aversion to that kinda stuff.

      Flame in any explosion is due to fuel in the mix.

  8. Dicky December 26, 2020 at 12:51

    I think a thermobaric bomb would have worked if it was done in advance. How long was the RV parked there to look suspicious? Back in the 80’s my Pa was stationed in Germany. This was before the wall came down and there was a lot of hate for GI’s. In the tower next to ours in an off base housing development there was a lady who really hated her GI neighbors. She opened up a bunch of propane canisters in the lower floor of her 3 floor apartment, went up stairs to the top, lit a candle and went to bed. When that went off it split that apartment tower from the ground floor up. It probably took hours for that mix to ignite. The woman in question was one of two casualties. Another man fell off his balcony an unknown height above the ground, landed in a rose bush, got up, tripped and bashed his head on a concrete curb. If that RV sat for 1.5-2 hours it had plenty of time to fill and never would have had to travel as a bomb. The driver could have cracked the canisters after parking and had a remote operated grill lighter somewhere in the cab to control detonation time rather than a lit candle.

  9. Tator December 26, 2020 at 14:22

    I lean towards the fuel air bomb too. No reason to have anything running to create a spark for premature ignition. In fact, the release of the gas and ignition could have easily been done remotely, as could have any messages or any other steps required in the planning. Pretty off the shelf to do these days. Was even just looking as a 4 relay wifi switch somebody posted the last few days on a forum.
    https://www.instructables.com/WI-Fi-Controlled-4CH-Relay-Module-for-Home-Automat/
    Some interesting vids from different angles that are worth consideration. And certainly save everything before it disappears.
    https://www.youtube.com/user/ak9316/videos
    Course they should have the suspect in hand already. Probably busy trying to figure out (or fighting over) who they want to take the blame.
    https://theintercept.com/2020/12/23/police-phone-surveillance-dragnet-cellhawk/?comments=1#comments

  10. Juri December 26, 2020 at 15:23

    Of course it was gas. Actually this was not an explosion, it was fast burning something using outside air. Huge fireball moving very slowly. Almost no shockwave damages and no shrapnel damages. With car bombs and city explosion’s in general, there is eternal problem that explosive damage is irrelevant but surrounding items work like fragmentation mine. Maybe I am blind but I can not see damages caused by fast flying items.

    Definitely not communist or Donald supporter or whatever political activist. Some normal guy wanted to have a proof that he can arrange sophisticated operation. He does not know who is his employer in the future civil war but he must have proof that he can get things done.

    Reminds me Yugoslavia or Soviet Union collapse. Where also “competence in 4th Gen civil war” was part of the 16 years old guy reputation like having sex or driving car

    Every society has lunatics. But when normal guys want to demonstrate, that they can also fight a unconventional war outside law enforcement, then there are turbulent times ahead.

    In the Soviet Union, we had much more innocent tricks. Make your own armor piercing shaped charge from common chemicals. Then put piece of railway rail below, your shaped charge above it, then water filled plastic bag on the charge and chicken egg on top of all it.

    Then impress your 16 years old school mates. Your shaped charge and water screen calculations must be so accurate that after the explosion, railway rail must have a hole but chicken egg must roll away without damage. You are bomb specialist who can blow things with surgeon accuracy.

    Events like this is normal society development. Every society needs a civil war time to time like every house needs cleaning. US constitution is written on the paper. As we all know, paper is cellulose. When you process cellulose with nitric acid you get nitric cellulose and you may blow away entire US supreme court with original constitution chemically handled by illegal immigrant..

    Do not lose hope. We got rid from communism and you will too.

  11. Brian S. Donahue December 26, 2020 at 16:32

    I live in the Nashville area, and work in Nashville. Amateur radio operators with formal emergency training have been closely involved in this crisis from the beginning, and the area repeaters have been buzzing with updates. There are some far-reaching second- and third-level effects.

    ATT communications were not directly damaged by the explosion, but systems have been down because the gas line to the generators that power the system had to be turned off. Temporary cell towers have been moved into the area. 911 calls for much of the surrounding area are being re-routed to other numbers.

    ATT expert engineers have been called in from Dallas, but FBI has restricted their access to the building. It may be days before they’re allowed in. The first few floors of the ATT building are under about a foot of water from ruptured pipes.

    Flights were halted at the airport for several hours on Friday. This morning, FAA declared the airspace over Nashville to be “National Defense Airspace.”

    NOAA weather radio for middle Tennessee is nonfunctional. Fortunately no severe weather is expected.

    Power to much of Franklin, a town to the south of Nashville, has been out for several hours this afternoon.

    • NC Scout December 26, 2020 at 16:38

      Thanks for this.

      • WhateverGirl December 27, 2020 at 06:20

        Yes, I actually had power outage during the storm for Christmas and I have video of the techs saying it is sabotage. They went around to the repeaters and the equipment had “curious” damage and that some of their cameras were disabled. I recorded some of the convo off my radio onto my tablet. If you want it NC scout I will send it to you and maybe you will know what they are saying as far as the components mentioned.. this is southern NY region.

    • NC Scout December 26, 2020 at 17:10

      I doubt that. The post-blast photos don’t look like what a missile strike looks like.

      • Tator December 27, 2020 at 08:13

        A better question might be what does a a RV filled with explosives look like when struct by a missile? It might not be the first time either. Back in the day, I think I was the first one to suggest that that might have been what struck the pentagon. On the other hand, maybe the blast of the RV was cover for the real target of the missile? That certainly wouldn’t be a new one either, as in OKC bombing.

        • NC Scout December 27, 2020 at 08:16

          There’s no crater, and the black smoke and fireball wouldn’t have been there.

    • Tator December 26, 2020 at 17:20

      Yeah, the original vid is on the link I posted of the guys channel. There is as I said then a few other shots of the explosion too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6aM7WHm-NA&ab_channel=AustinKellerman

      • James December 27, 2020 at 09:42

        I also have seen these videos,while by no means a expert(or even qualified amateur) on lazer/missiles ect. as seems a upward shot of energy before major explosion perhaps a small break thru in RV that let a initial energy path release before the big foom?

  12. James December 27, 2020 at 08:44

    Well,am unsure of what this attack was,a disgruntled employee/false flag/a group with causing chaos in mind(same as false flag).That said,seems whoever behind this really did try to see that people were not injured and killed,luckily,for most part,that worked.

    Imagine if say even a 100 people across a country did this,would cause all sorts of havoc for the msm/cell phones ect.

    However this turns out(doubt we get the truth)seems a good nudge for folks to look into and learning about alt comms.

    • NC Scout December 27, 2020 at 09:03

      Yup.

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