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I am overcome with curiosity about who did this and why. The fact that nobody has claimed responsibility makes no sense. If this were a politically motivated at
by PIKAL 6y ago
I am overcome with curiosity about who did this and why. The fact that nobody has claimed responsibility makes no sense. If this were a politically motivated attack, domestic or otherwise, it would almost defeat the point to have the name of your cause omitted from those initial headlines. And sparing the lives of the bystanders also doesn’t make sense for a political attack. I heard the NRA gave warnings but the reason why it’s basically unheard of is because it defeats the point of terrorism. The reason why Muslim extremists, the bonafide experts, make a point of killing lots of people is because it’s effective. What political organization has it in for att?
It can’t be political. Every day that goes by without someone claiming responsibility, the probability of it being political decreases exponentially.
But at the same time, this doesn’t seem like the work of a lone wolf. Lone wolfs usually try to kill people. And almost invariably they fail miserably, killing practically no people at all compared to the number of people that would have been killed at the hands of someone smart or competent with a weapon. And bombs stand out as being difficult for lone wolves to get right. For a lone wolf to build a working bomb and detonation system and have everything work perfectly the first time would be the exception, although not the only one.
This was done by one person. Not a typical lone wolf but someone who was smart and methodical. And I would guess he was in the vehicle when it exploded. He was either insane ala templeOS, had no motive ala Mandalay bay, or a disgruntled employee.
- Guthur 6y agoThere are many strategies that don't necessarily involve large human collateral damage but are still politically motivated. The Provisonsal IRA in N. Ireland during the Troubles was often times either targeting security forces, collaborators or commerical activity. Ostensibly the goal was to make the UKs continued involvement in N. Ireland untenable from an economic and political stand point. The IRA was quite aware that too many indiscriminate killing of N.Ireland civilians would be detrimental to their cause.
- PIKAL 6y agoBut I don’t even need to look it up to know that they made absolutely sure to get credit for every single bombing. Why is that missing here?
- Guthur 6y agoMost certainly, well most of the time anyway unless it was particularly botched. I'm actually not meaning to claim that this particular incident is political at all.
- cinquemb 6y ago> And I would guess he was in the vehicle when it exploded. Yeah, because moving an RV remotely is impossible with today's tech…
- im3w1l 6y ago> The fact that nobody has claimed responsibility makes no sense. It could be an enemy country probing for weakness. The goal would simply be intel / seeing what will happen.
- PIKAL 6y agoAt the risk of triggering a war with the most powerful military in the world?
- AnHonestComment 6y agoNo time like the present: - COVID weakened economy; high stress levels. - Contested election causing high political turmoil, weakness in leadership. - Government and telecoms just suffered a massive hack, which would have revealed details about sites like this. - Other countries are under their own pressures and timelines, eg to retake Taiwan. Presumably, launching a major infrastructure attack coupled to insurrections would provide enough distraction that China could invade Taiwan or Russia could invade Ukraine. The US may not be able to respond.