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FBI identifies Nashville bomber, sez he died of COVID just prior to explosion
2020-12-28
[FOX via WND] The suspect behind the Christmas Day bombing in downtown Nashville has been identified as 63-year-old Anthony Quinn Warner, authorities confirmed during a press conference Sunday.

Police said Warner owned the RV that exploded in downtown Nashville early Friday, and that he died in the blast.

Human tissue was found amongst the debris left behind by the explosion, and DNA examinations of tissue samples by The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and FBI were found to be consistent with Warner. In addition, the Tennessee Highway Patrol uncovered a vehicle identification number from the remains of the RV, which revealed it was registered to Warner.

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Nashville Christmas bomber claimed he had cancer and began to give away his possessions weeks before the attack at AT&T transmission building because he was paranoid about 5G technology
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • FBI investigators have identified 63-year-old Anthony Quinn Warner as the Nashville Christmas bomber

  • Freelance IT consultant, whom neighbors described as an 'oddball' reportedly told an ex-girlfriend he had cancer and gave her his car

  • The 'conspiracy theorist' also gave away his home to a 29-year-old California woman last month

  • Investigators are still searching for motive in attack but a source has said he was furious over 5G technology

  • Bomber believed he would be 'hailed a hero' for attack on AT&T building, a source told DailyMail.com

  • Investigators are now tracing his digital footprint to understand his motive

  • His father worked for BellSouth and died of dementia, perhaps fueling his paranoia about 5G
Posted by:Besoeker

#27  AT&T can't even associate a bill to a household correctly.

Heh. I am certainly not attributing superpowers to them. But they do get to look at everyone's traffic. Hey, maybe all the smart guys are up to nefarious stuff and their IT Dept is staffed with affirmative action hires.

speculation that the gunshots were also a recording, played to wake people up

That was my guess. No bodies except possibly (cue reverb) Mr Warner himself... and he is not available at the moment, what with being blown to flinders and all. Presumably.
Posted by: SteveS   2020-12-28 21:44  

#26   mention of a rapid series of gunshots before the whole mess jumped off.

I’ve seen speculation that thr gunshots were also a recording, played to wake people up so they’d be able to oay attention to the announcement. Because there weren’t any reports of people actually shot or physical evidence of a shooting.
Posted by: trailing wife   2020-12-28 21:30  

#25  Re: bong-addled, etc:

AT&T can't even associate a bill to a household correctly... let alone engage in sophisticated espionage

Posted by: Oscar Fillmore8018   2020-12-28 21:17  

#24  Sure seems like an FAE.

In early reports, there was mention of a rapid series of gunshots before the whole mess jumped off. I have not seen any further discussion of this.

Bong-addled Speculation: This was an operation against AT&T (or Solar Winds who is also in the neighborhood). The perp is a state-level actor, either a foreign govt or a faction within our own Intel Community. Warner is just a patsy. Motive: AT&T or Solarwinds was engaged in surveillance and espionage, presumably on behalf of some part of the US FedGov, maybe for someone else.
Posted by: SteveS   2020-12-28 20:04  

#23  Looks to me like a homemade fuel air bomb made from propane filling the camper shell then detonating. A propane bottle with detonator rolled into a house in Fallujah would take the roof off.

And an obvious question never asked on the ATT data center was what’ was going on there? 3 days and the case is solved, and the media is lapping it all up like a dog’s breakfast. Give me a break.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2020-12-28 17:58  

#22  Psycho's R US
Lots in the US of A.
answer TW?
Posted by: 3dc   2020-12-28 16:25  

#21  I think the 5g is a canard. His friend said he never mentioned it. He did mention tech-gov spying on us all.

Makes more sense. I think the FBI is pushing their cover the arse usual bullschit.
Posted by: Woodrow   2020-12-28 15:17  

#20   First house given to the LA lady a year ago.

LA lady (Michelle L. Swing, 29) then signed the first house over to bomber’s mother, Betty Christine Lane, the ex-wife of the bomber’s father. The mother had been living in the house all along. She had sued the bomber for self dealing by disposing of the thing without her agreement after his brother died without a will, and only dropped the suit after LA lady gave it to her. Ms Lane is still living in the first house.

My take is that he signed the second house over to the Ms Swing in the hope that this time she would accept the valuable gift.

Odds on him being dead and on ice for a few months or a year?

Who would do such a thing, 3dc?
Posted by: trailing wife   2020-12-28 15:14  

#19  I heard he was the first NON BINARY to get covid from AFRICA and the CIA and MILITARY were just doing another biological weapon test! OPERATION RV AEROSOL FRUITCAKE WITH NUTS!
Posted by: Jiling Gravitch9209 v   2020-12-28 14:56  

#18  Besoeker, are you doing double duty with the Babylon Bee?

I walked in thinking Daily Mail.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2020-12-28 14:47  

#17  First house given to the LA lady a year ago.
Second house this summer.
RV a month ago.
RV was white and no pin striping
RV that blew up was yellow with pin striping
Odds on him being dead and on ice for a few months or a year?
Posted by: 3dc   2020-12-28 14:13  

#16  the most corrupt era in modern US history
Posted by: Snuth B. Hayes4746   2020-12-28 12:53  

#15  Lack of discussion about the explosives is, indeed, curious.
package.

I don't know what it is, but something about this incident makes me twitchy - that feeling there is something we are not seeing here. Everything is just wrapped up into a nice tidy package. Move along, nothing to see here.
Posted by: SteveS   2020-12-28 11:56  

#14  The oligarch-press nexus is quietly happy that one of the legacy spectrum-owners was targeted. Conversely if the target had been Amazon or one of Googoo's data centers, our prostitute media and Big Tech would be all over it.
Posted by: Butch Tojo5284   2020-12-28 11:44  

#13  Cancer, depression, junk-science and paranoia make a pretty destructive combination I guess. I’m betting the media let’s this one wobble to a quiet, ignored end if they can’t blame it on Trump or Conservatives. Right now the guy seems to have been apolitical.

I guess the liberalpress can always go after toxic masculinity since he is male, and since he had an ex girlfriend cited, that means he is “cis- heterosexual” and of course he was white.

That was a laundry list of terms... The left sure has a lot of labels and classifications they use for determining how a person is treated. Frighteningly reminiscent of the Third Reich isn’t it?
Posted by: Greater the Anonymous5721   2020-12-28 11:36  

#12  Hey it's 2020. Makes even the unabomber look sane by comparison
Posted by: Woodrow Black9808   2020-12-28 11:32  

#11  Seems curious, there appears to be no media or LE discussion or reporting on the type of explosives used. Or did I miss something again ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2020-12-28 11:18  

#10  If you believe this pat explanation a couple of days after the incident I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2020-12-28 11:11  

#9   RV boomer said he planned to spend a couple of weeks in the woods with his dogs.
Posted by: JohnQC   2020-12-28 10:45  

#8  Have the MSM will quickly labeled him a "Right-wing crazy" yet?
Posted by: magpie   2020-12-28 10:36  

#7  Besoeker, are you doing double duty with the Babylon Bee? The coffee spill is hard on my keyboard.
Posted by: JohnQC   2020-12-28 10:00  

#6  Very interesting how no one will say what material the bomb was composed of.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454   2020-12-28 09:52  

#5  I'm sure a Netflix version will be out before year end. With an all black G-man/woman/thingy squad investigating how age and whiteness cause these things.



Posted by: Dron66046   2020-12-28 09:40  

#4  COVID, it hates Winnebago's.
Posted by: Besoeker   2020-12-28 08:33  

#3  Covid kills in mysterious ways...
Posted by: Raj   2020-12-28 08:30  

#2  A 5G causes health problems conspiracy theorist?
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-12-28 07:50  

#1  Its 2020 Everybody dies of COVID no matter what the circumstances.

Prepair for Covid mutant strain 501.V2 found in South Africa the strain was detected in the country and contains a higher viral load and also, perhaps more worryingly, seems to impact young people more seriously.
Posted by: Bigfoot Clunk8532   2020-12-28 07:46  

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