Acts of Terrorism megathread

[mongers]

It seems likely to me it was a suicide bombing... they have released video of the RV as the location it was parked at is in full view of cameras, but no video of anyone exiting the RV.  Not sure why they would be holding that back if they had it?

Well, if they are holding in back they might not want to have public out searching for this guy.  Hopefully it is a suicide, some one fired by AT@T and decided to the noble thing in blowing up the building but trying to hurt anyone in the process.  Much better than a mad shooter.

I done know about that, but given the various comms knocked out it could be a targeted attack at local state infrastructure?

[Razgovory]

I dunno.  It looks like an office building.

[mongers]

I dunno.  It looks like an office building.

Raz, this bbc item had some details, still could just be luck;
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55448832

The van blew up outside a building belonging to the telecoms giant AT&T, which also occupies an office tower nearby.

Buildings suffered structural damage, windows were blown out, and trees were felled. Videos posted on social media showed water from damaged pipes running down walls as alarms howled in the background.

Police emergency systems were knocked out across much of Tennessee. Flights out of Nashville International Airport were briefly halted as a result of damage done by the blast but have now resumed.

[Razgovory]

Well, if were targeting communication infrastructure it would be so that you could do something that you couldn't do with the infrastructure intact.  Since there hasn't been a follow up attack or any other exploitation of time when the communications were disrupted it is probably safe to assume that wasn't the reason.

[Caliga]

It seems likely to me it was a suicide bombing...

I was right.

[Admiral Yi]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaQKcXuU-k8

Dude identified.  Possibility he was a 5G kook.  That would explain the AT&T connection.

[HisMajestyBOB]

Driver intentionally drives through crowd in Tucson 
https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/article248726860.html
The video is pretty brutal. You can't see any details but you can see the SUV clearly run over people.
https://twitter.com/jasonjgauthier/status/1353185183512465410

[Razgovory]

What the fuck?

[Syt]

Wait, that was a police car?

[11B4V]

Driver intentionally drives through crowd in Tucson 
https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/article248726860.html
The video is pretty brutal. You can't see any details but you can see the SUV clearly run over people.
https://twitter.com/jasonjgauthier/status/1353185183512465410

Tacoma, WA

[HisMajestyBOB]

Driver intentionally drives through crowd in Tucson 
https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/article248726860.html
The video is pretty brutal. You can't see any details but you can see the SUV clearly run over people.
https://twitter.com/jasonjgauthier/status/1353185183512465410

Tacoma, WA

Oops, you're right.

[HisMajestyBOB]

Driver intentionally drives through crowd in Tacoma 
https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/article248726860.html
The video is pretty brutal. You can't see any details but you can see the SUV clearly run over people.
https://twitter.com/jasonjgauthier/status/1353185183512465410

[Maladict]

Wait, that was a police car?

Yes it was, no fatalities fortunately.

[Threviel]

Something happened in Vetlanda, Sweden yesterday. An Afghan youth with a criminal past went haywire and stabbed 7 people before police shot him. No-one seems to have died yet, but the situation is critical for a few of the stabbed.

Initial reports claimed terrorism, but the reasons of the perp is not yet clear.

A few weeks ago a masked guy went into my old High School in Varberg carrying swords and other weapons, no-one was injured but that was possibly just luck. In that case a mentally ill person affected by the Swedish equivalent of Qanon, retards on the right.

We are building a cold and hard society without any kind of safety net for people with social issues. The guy in Varberg had no family, little contact with welfare and was more or less left alone in a shitty apartment with a computer and all the time in the world. I don't know, but I expect that the Afghan dude has more or less the same story. Alone, physical needs satisfied, nothing to do and all the time in the world to fall into the hands of propaganda. No wonder that a few of all the thousands act out in this manner.

[The Brain]

Stabby McStab and BladyMcBlade don't seem like people you want to be friends with. Maybe if you're a youth with a criminal past you should still be serving jail time and not be out stabbing.