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There is 0 doubt that they were targeting the hub, they parked right beside that building, not on the side of the street with restaurants. There is a gaping hol
by partiallypro 6y ago
There is 0 doubt that they were targeting the hub, they parked right beside that building, not on the side of the street with restaurants. There is a gaping hole in the side of the building, though how much damage was done isn't known. Some services were affected before they had to cut the generators, per some reports. Internet and cellular is still down, and our DirecTV local channels went black right when they cut the power. I suspect they redirected that because it came back an hour later well before cellular and internet.
- tptacek 6y agoThey also had an announcement warning people to evacuate, so they clearly weren't optimizing for casualties. I don't think "which side of the street" tells us anything.
- partiallypro 6y agoHow does it not? You are going to park closest to what you want to suffer the most damage. They parked right next to the AT&T building. They wanted to damage that building, if they had parked on the side with all the restaurants it probably would have destroyed that entire side of the street, those buildings are very old, some are pre-civil war facades. The AT&T building had to have a close high impact bomb to even make a dent, it's so obvious that was the target.