Clues about the Nashville bombing include Petula Clark’s scary song and questions about location

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) – Now that investigators have confirmed that Nashville’s suicide bomber, Anthony Warner, died in the Christmas Day explosion, his attention is turned to “why”.

Why would anyone do such an atrocious act?

Researchers have been searching hundreds, even thousands, of clues, trying to answer the question.

One possible clue, potentially suggesting Warner’s mental state, came when the police revealed Sunday morning that a scary song was playing in Warner’s explosive trailer before the explosion.

This song, Petula Clark’s recording of “Downtown” in 1964, reaches a melancholy tone.

“When you are alone and life is leaving you alone, you can always go downtown,” begins the song.

“When you have concerns, all the noise and rush seems to help, I know, in the city center.”

The song is also sung in celebration of a violent attack on Vietnam in the 1991 war film, Flight of the Intruder.

But the questions also increasingly focused on the location of the city center that the bomber chose, outside an AT&T switching station.

The explosion severely damaged the facility, bringing down telephone and internet service over a wide area.

At CBS Face the Nation, Nashville Mayor John Cooper suggested on Sunday that AT&T’s own facilities may have been the target.

“For all of us locally, it looks like there must be some connection to the AT&T facility and the location of the bombing,” said Cooper.

The telephone giant was criticized five years ago for its role in helping to spy on the United States on the Internet, a role revealed by Edward Snowden’s leak of National Security Agency documents.

But Tennessee Security Commissioner Jeff Long also recently warned of violence associated with wild conspiracy theories blaming 5G mobile technology for spreading COVID-19.

“There are some people who believe that the 5G network is somehow connected to the coronavirus,” Long said during budget hearings before Tennessee Governor Bill Lee.

“They caused the destruction of some of the 5G tower locations. We had several in the Memphis area and some of our others. And we had three Tennessee highway patrol towers that were vandalized.”

The researchers confirmed that it is one of the areas they are exploring.

In May, US Homeland Security warned: “We assessed the conspiracy theories that link the spread of COVID-19 to the expansion of the 5G cellular network are inciting attacks against communications infrastructure worldwide and that these threats are likely to increase as that the disease continues to spread, including calls for violence against telecommunications workers. ”

One conspiracy theory that has emerged since the bombing is that the AT&T building contained electronic voting machines that could change the outcome of the presidential election.

There is no evidence that this is true.

So far, no public manifestos have emerged that give us a definitive view of Warner’s intentions.