NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The vulnerability of the telecommunications system in Nashville and beyond became clear Christmas Day when AT&T s central office in downtown became the site of a bombing.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The vulnerability of the telecommunications system in Nashville and beyond became clear Christmas Day when AT&T s central office in downtown became the site of a bombing.
Mayor John Cooper called the blast on Second Avenue an attack on infrastructure. The effects of that attack are sure to ripple through the region for weeks, as the telecom giant scrambles to restore services while maintaining the integrity of an active investigation site teeming with federal agents.
Nashville bombing exposed Achilles heel in area communications network
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The vulnerability of the telecommunications system in Nashville and beyond became clear Christmas Day when AT&T s central office in downtown became a crime scene.
Mayor John Cooper called the bombing on Second Avenue an attack on infrastructure. The effects of that attack are sure to ripple through the region for weeks, as the telecom giant scrambles to restore services while also maintaining the integrity of an active investigation site teeming with federal agents.
State and local officials and experts say the fact that a multi-state region could be brought to its knees by a single bombing is a wake-up call, exposing vulnerabilitiesmany didn t know existed and predicting it would lead to intense conversations about the future.
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“We’ve come to the conclusion that Anthony Warner is the bomber,” Donald Q. Cochran, the U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee, said at a news conference Sunday. “He was present when the bomb went off, and he perished in the bombing.”
Investigators said they believe that he acted alone. He was identified through remains found scattered among the wreckage.
Hundreds of federal investigators had flocked into Nashville after the blast, chasing the leads that poured in by the hundreds to locate the culprit. Now that they have found him, they are still trying to make sense of who he was and why he would set off an explosion that shattered a district where the lights are indeed bright and people flock to forget their trouble and cares in a year with no shortage of them.