A scientific approach
As law enforcement officials continue to search for a motive in the Christmas Day explosion in Nashville, analysts are turning their attention to a related and seemingly significant question. When Anthony Warner blew himself up in his RV, he created one heck of a blast. The explosion was big enough to damage pretty much every building on an entire city block. I’m sure there was quite a bit of room inside that recreational vehicle, but it wasn’t that big. So what kind of bomb did he create that was capable of generating such destruction? Some experienced blast investigators from the FBI have been reviewing the publicly available photos and videos and have reached a rather startling preliminary conclusion. They are describing Warner’s bomb as being “unique in the annals of” improvised explosive devices used by terrorists. If they’re correct, Warner would have had to have pulled off a very tricky design to create any sort of significant explosion. Also, they suggest that if we want to learn more about how he did it, officials should be looking for his test sites because there was no way he could have made it work on the first try. (Daily Beast) Find his test sites, top bomb experts say. Anthony Quinn Warner’s device, although probably made of common over-the-counter components, is unique in the annals of mayhem, according to seasoned FBI bomb experts consulted by SpyTalk. “We’ve never seen an improvised thermobaric device before in this country or any country,” says Dave Williams, who conducted the FBI’s on-scene investigations of the World Trade Center, Oklahoma City, Pan Am 103 and Unabomber bombings, among other notorious incidents.
