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Emergency personnel work near the scene of an explosion in downtown Nashville on Friday. (AP\/Mark Humphrey)<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n
By Solange Reyner
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Nashville Mayor John Cooper on Sunday suggested that Anthony Quinn Warren, the man identified as the Nashville bomber, targeted an AT&T Inc. switching station.<\/p>\n
Speaking on CBS\u2019s \u201cFace the Nation,\u201d Cooper said, \u201cTo all of us locally, it feels like there has to be some connection with the AT&T facility and the site of the bombing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Intelligence officials have also considered whether the AT&T building was targeted in the Christmas Day bombing. The blast heavily damaged the facility, knocking out cellular service in much of Tennessee, Kentucky and Northern Alabama.<\/p>\n
Nashville investigators on Sunday identified Warren, 63, as the suspect behind the explosion. They said he died in the blast.<\/p>\n
AT&T said Sunday morning that it had restored 96%\u00a0of its wireless network, 60% of business service and 86% of consumer broadband and entertainment services. A switch station connects phone calls sent and received in the neighborhood.<\/p>\n
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