CNN’s Kayyem on Nashville Explosion: ‘This Was a Well Planned Out, Coordinated, Nonmass Casualty Event’

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KAYYEM: "So the clarity by which they said the state or city weren’t under threat is a clue. In other words, they’re not going to tell the public you’re safe if they believe there are other bombs out there. Do they have someone in custody, they’re not saying yet that they’re hearing from. Something that we may find out in the next couple of hours. I want to focus on what Evan said about the building. So if you want a lot of people dead for a political reason, you don’t do this because this is serious, serious explosives. This is something that would have killed a lot of people but for the fact it is at 6:30 in the morning or 6:00 in the morning Christmas morning in a sort of industrial part of downtown. When your producer first called me this morning, the first thing I asked is was it a church. Because it is Christmas. This is my fear. So that gratefulness makes you wonder well, what’s going on here. So you’re looking at the building. It is a piece of critical infrastructure. I know people will look at AT&T and its relationship with CNN. We don’t know, but what we know, it is a piece of critical infrastructure. If it was the target, that’s where the investigation is going to head. And the final thing I’ll say is these are serious explosives looking at the pictures. This was a well planned out, coordinated nonmass casualty event. Someone is thinking this through what they wanted to do. That’s where the investigation will head."