Posted on 10/01/2005 7:05:29 PM PDT by blogblogginaway
Edited on 10/01/2005 7:21:56 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
The explosion happened at the courtyard near the George Lynn Cross Hall, Botany-Microbiology Building on OU's campus, which is west of the stadium, according to Sgt. Gary Robinson of the University police department. The explosion happened during the second quarter of Oklahoma's game against Kansas State. After the explosion, police set up a perimeter of several blocks and made fans exit the stadium to the east.
NORMAN -- An explosion near the University of Oklahoma's Gaylord Family-Memorial Stadium killed one person Saturday, OU officials said.
I agree. Back in '98, FreeRepublic was awash with investigations into strange doings. It's what made this site so addicting. Which reminds me that I've been procrastinating for too long and must excuse myself from our engrossing mystery thread.
Go to your local sporting goods or gun shop that sells reloading supplies. A 1 lb. can of SMOKELESS powder cost about $28. My firearms trainer makes flash bang bombs for tactical training and uses only an ounce or so for that, so I would image a pounds worth would make a big boom.
If it was a lone suicide then why where TWO devices found? I wouldn't trust anything the authorities in Oklahoma say.
I heard that and then haven't seen anything else on it. Do you posit that it would have coincided with Bali?
There were not two devices. That was just an early rumor.
It is nothing but wishful thikning. Lots of people wanted it to be an Islamic terrorist attack.
Muslim students tend to favor engineering. Perhaps he is a John Lind-type sympathizer who had some radical islamic buddies in his engineering class. Suicidal college students don't usually choose the jihad method to off themselves.
I believe there are indications that was a false report. All breaking incidents involve a large number of "facts" that later turn out to be wrong, that were not the result of deliberate lying or a coverup.
The key thing is not to simply pick and choose the facts you want to believe that support the preconceived story you're hoping for. They ALL need to be considered suspect.
That's true, but generally an engineer goes through design and testing phases before finishing a project with a working prototype. We need some evidence that this kid did the design and testing work, and some evidence of how he obtained the explosives. He may not have done a full explosion test--maybe he skipped that step. But they need to find some design drawings that he wrote and find out where he got the explosives. That was some powerful stuff he used and not something he could buy at the local gun shop.
Um yes there were... I know people WHO FELT THE 2nd BLAST
http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/firearms-weapons-knives.html
I would read that to say you cannot buy/sell ammo on ebay. susie
That's based on the reported explosive power of this bomb. No, it doesn't take a Nobel prize but it takes some expertise, design work, and the explosives. And to get something to work so effectively on the first try, usually it takes some live testing. He may not have been able to do that, in which case this would have been his live test ( and it worked.)
Looks like President Boren is a good politician.
8pm timeframe confirmed in this AP story published by The Chicago Tribune:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0510020308oct02,1,282781.story?ctrack=1&cset=true
Man, I'd toss in the "Master of the Obvious" graphic here if I wasn't lazy...you're right, of course.
Not sitting in front of CommieNewsNet. This "incident" was obviously planned and coordinated by more than one guy with a small explosive. It wonderful that we have this forum to kick around our ideas, theories, and concepts. The short response from me was a result of being castigated for not following the thread.
Good theory. A problem that doesn't fit with that is the purported "lack" of a crater. Others have suggested that a bomb strapped on the vest region could account for that. That wouldn't support innocent bystander at the wrong place and time.
Well, nothing out of the ordinary, except he said he had decided his life was not worth living (or something to that effect). I thought that odd, that in one breath all was normal, in another his son found his life not worth living.
susie
Should've included the paragraph in my post in case it gets a subscription needed page later...
"Officers cordoned off an area west of the stadium after the explosion and nobody was allowed out of the stadium for about a half-hour after the blast, which occurred shortly before 8 p.m. The Sooners' game against Kansas State continued."
Earlier I mentioned that the blasts in Bali were also set to go off at 8pm. Could definitely be a coincidence...
I hope the gal from Iran who saw the two ME types running away was going to be speaking to the authorities. Do you know if she has?
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