Posted on 10/05/2005 10:22:17 AM PDT by BurbankKarl
NORMAN, Okla. -- The Pakistani roommate of a man authorities said died when he detonated an explosive device outside a crowded football stadium was led in handcuffs from a party shortly after Saturday's explosion, the head of an Islamic student group said.
Fazal M. Cheema, a finance major, shared a university-owned apartment with Joel Hinrichs III, 21, who died Saturday when a device attached to his body exploded as he sat on a bench outside George Lynn Cross Hall.
Cheema and three other Muslim students were led in handcuffs from a party by police after the blast, Ashraf Hussein, president of the Muslim Student Association, said Tuesday. They later were released.
Cheema is "a really, really nice guy," Hussein said.
OU President David Boren said authorities continue to believe that Hinrichs did not try to get into the stadium and that he acted alone. He said Hinrichs' roommate, along with his acquaintances, were questioned by federal authorities.
"All the people who lived in that building, all the people that lived in the building surrounding it, all the people who knew him well or were living in proximity to him ... have been questioned; none of those people have been held by law enforcement," Boren said.
The FBI said in a statement Tuesday that there is no current threat posed by additional explosive materials, that there is no known threat from anyone else related to the incident and that there is no known link between Hinrichs and any terrorist or extremist organization or activities.
Hinrichs' father, Joel Hinrichs Jr., said the FBI re-interviewed him Tuesday at his home in Colorado Springs, Colo. The father told investigators his son was skeptical of ideology.
"Joe would have become a Muslim fanatic when pigs fly," the father side.
Meanwhile, Norman feed store operator Dustin Ellison said Hinrichs attempted to purchase ammonium nitrate a few days before the explosion.
Ellison, whose family operates Ellison Feed and Seed, said the store no longer carries the product because of new federal guidelines regarding its sale. Ammonium nitrate can be used to build bombs and was a key ingredient in the 1995 attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.
Hinrichs' father said the FBI told him the bomb his son had was made of hydrogen peroxide. He said the FBI told him more high-density hydrogen peroxide was found in the apartment.
Who is the Freeper here who lives near OU and has commented extensively in the past on the topic of Islamist radicals at OU? Can you recall her handle?
Must be a cross between "said" and "lied".
Or:
"Sorry" POP!
FBI was afraid CAIR was going to yell at them for having him miss the start of Ramadan.
"choke" Damn.
Nailed it dude.
Twenty years ago I would have said they let these guys go so they could watch them carefully to see whom they contact. Now, post-clinton, I don't know what to say. It's just as likely that they let them go because it's politically incorrect to arrest Muslims.
Or because someone higher up in the FBI ordered them to, because that someone higher up has had compromising connections with Muslim terrorists in the past. We've already spoken about the OKC bombing and its Middle-Eastern connections which the FBI has so carefully covered up.
Who knows anymore? All I can say is that, regretably, the FBI simply cannot be trusted to tell the truth or to defend our country. Not all FBI agents, but a significant portion of them and their bosses, have been corrupted.
:)
Yeah, right. A "really, really nice guy" that hates infidels and longs for the total annihilation of all white devils.
Or, in other words, a good Muslim.
["Joe would have become a Muslim fanatic when pigs fly," the father side.]
There are so many possible punch lines to this that I can't decide which one to use.
So the father's explanation for the explosives in the apartment is....
Is PhiKapMom the one you're thinking of? She was there at the game and has written a lot about this... If so, PKMom, ping to another article connected!
Is it credible that this guy could have been making bombs in the apartment without his roommates knowing about it?
So, this student straps an explosive to himself and sets it off, and his roommate just so happens to be a Muslim.
Gee, what a coincidence.
Ping.
It's PhiKapMom who you're thinking of. She was at the stadium the night of the suicide bomb.
First I'd heard of it.
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