Look at the map of Nashville

[edhopper]

The explosion happened near the top at Church St. and 2nd Ave. See how close that is to the State Capitol Bldg. My guess is it went off before it got to it's target.



you can right click map to see larger image.

Edit: While the target could have been the building it was next too, a quite Christmas morning would be a perfect time to bring in a car bomb and park it a few blocks from the eventual target.

[Klaralven]

1. It was parked across the street from the downtown AT&T building

[edhopper]

3. Disgruntled

HBO customer?

[sfstaxprep]

5. Not Funny

Did you see how much damage it did?

[edhopper]

6. Sorry

gallows humor. Glad nobody was killed.

[Klaralven]

7. Theater owner upset by Wonder Woman 1984 going direct to HBO Max?

[edhopper]

4. It's just conjecture about the target

who knows why people do these things. I hope we find out.

Anyway, why did McVeigh target the Oklahoma? It was a target of opportunity for him.
So why Nashville isn't hard to answer.

[Hortensis]

13. Good conjecture, though. RW bombers typically want to kill

or at least create major disruption, preferably with blood. When bombs go off outside arenas and such, missing the opportunity to kill many, it's virtually always because the terrorist(s) screwed up.

(LW bombers are famous with terrorism experts for generally preferring to blow up empty facilities, also for warning ahead of time to make sure no one gets killed. But LW bombers are also comparatively much rarer, especially in this era.)

So just blowing up a vehicle on a dark, mostly empty street also made me immediately wonder if it exploded prematurely, before people were around, or as you speculate, before it was moved to a bigger target.

[Bradshaw3]

19. He was inspired by "The Turner Diaries"

Neo-Nazi leader Charlies Pierce's "novel" about a RW takeover of the U.S. government, which features the protagonist making the same kind of bomb McVeigh did, then driving it into the basement of FBI headquarters in Washington. McVeigh was familiar with Oklahoma thanks to his time at Ft. Riley.

[edhopper]

20. Exactly

so we may find an equally f'ed up motive for this one.

[Midnight Writer]

22. ATF was headquartered in the Oklahoma Federal Building.

McVeigh claimed he was seeking vengeance for the ATF raid on Koresh's compound at Waco.

[edhopper]

23. Yes I know

I edited my comment to make it clearer what I was saying.

[mahina]

8. In the arts district too

What the hell

[sinkingfeeling]

17. If AT&T was the target, might tie into Qanon's theory that G5 causes Covid.

A lot if communication towers were destroyed in England earlier in the year.

[Ellipsis]

9. It's a gentrified area, with franchise restaurants.

Apparently there was a hostel close. "I guess more some good o'll boys."

Right next to the ATT building makes one conjecture an attempted effort take out communications.

Joint Press briefing with FBI briefing again at noon.

[Iggo]

12. I read the establishment hit directly was called "The Melting Pot."

Could be a coincidence, I guess.

[Ellipsis]

16. There were a many restaurants. There's even a Hooters...

The Old Spaghetti Factory

The Melting Pot is a fondue joint with the first restaurant started in the 70's. in Florida.

Rodizio Grill The Brazilian Steakhouse was right across the street.

Coyote UGLY - female bartenders with barter dancing

and a liquor store

They could all be owned by one investment group I suppose.

[Iggo]

21. Yeah, that's what I mean.

Also, I might've been led by the nose by whoever wrote the report.

They do that sometimes.

[Stallion]

10. Close to Ryman Auditorium-the Home of Country Music

[edhopper]

11. I noticed that too

and across from Titans stadium, But I don't see any events this weekend at them.

[Stallion]

14. Even Closer to the George Jones Museum

[edhopper]

15. Why would someone

bomb that?
Tammy Wynette fan?

[dalton99a]

18. Kick