Nashville bomb was preceded by a warning, which gave instructions to evacuate and a 15 minute countdown. (1/) tennessean.com/story/news/loc… via @Tennessean
I wrote a book and an article about this sort of behavior. Terrorist groups typically give warnings when they want to destroy property without causing mass casualties. (2/) cup.columbia.edu/book/force-of-… @ColumbiaUP @caelyncobb
Typically you see casualty-reducing warnings like this from terrorist groups that lack territory and fight democracies. This might give some clues about the identity of the perpetrators... (3/) cambridge.org/core/journals/… @IntOrgJournal
The no-territory/fighting-a-democracy profile applies to US domestic terrorist groups but not to international groups with territorial bases. (Groups with offshore bases care less about whether Americans approve of their tactics, but domestic groups might care.) (4/)
It’s way too early to know. But if I were investigating this I’d look at domestic groups first & give credit claims by domestic groups more credibility. Domestic terrorists have the most reason to warn civilians out of harm’s way, even when destroying property w/ car bombs (5/5)
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