Posted on 10/03/2005 7:47:06 AM PDT by sully777
A University of Oklahoma student accused of transporting an explosive device into Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City last week is still enrolled and could begin classes at the Norman campus next Monday.
OU public affairs vice president Catherine Bishop confirmed Tuesday aviation senior Charles Alfred Dreyling Jr. is still a student. Dreyling is one semester away from completing an aviation management degree, according to his lawyer Kent Eldridge.
Bishop would not comment on whether the university was instituting its own disciplinary proceedings against Dreyling, as outlined in the OU student code handbook.
U.S. Department of Homeland Security documents obtained by The Transcript detail on Aug. 11, federal agents searched Dreyling's Norman residence. In the residence, the memo states, agents found "gunpowder, carbon dioxide cartridges and wires" as well as a computer with a video of detonation of a device similar to the one transported into the airport Aug. 10.
Norman Police Lt. Tom Easley confirmed the department's participation in the search but said he would not comment on the nature of the items removed from Dreyling's Norman residence, nor would FBI spokesperson Gary Johnson. One charge of attempting to carry an explosive or incendiary device was filed against Dreyling in the Western District of Federal Court in the State of Oklahoma. Eldridge said as far as he knows, prosecutors are not planning to file new charges against Dreyling.
Though an unidentified Homeland Security official wrote in the Aug. 12 memo the Transportation Security Administration is proceeding with a recommendation that the FAA revoke Dreyling's commercial license, no such actions have taken place said FAA spokesperson Roland Herwig. Dreyling received the license May 5.
"We have not performed any actions against (Dreyling)," Herwig said.
U.S. Attorney Robert McCampbell said "he was unable to comment on the matter."
A preliminary hearing is scheduled Aug. 31. Until that point, Eldridge said his client will continue to abide by the terms of his release, as he is "representing a fine young man."
"This has been quite a shock to him," Eldridge said. "He's never been in any kind of trouble before and we are waiting for the preliminary hearing."
Eldridge said the government is "admittedly, very concerned about what happened" at the airport and that his client has, and will continue to, cooperate with prosecutors and investigators.
Melissa A. Wabnitz 366-3550 mwabnitz@normantranscript.com
Shocking story. Even more shocking appraoch by government and HSA. The whole series of events in OK City past two months are very odd. What is with the OK City area with all of these terror attack links?
Some freeper have the story?
Zacharias Moussoui sent e-mails from Nick Bergs lap top. Government called it an amazing coincidence.
Okay, one student blowing himself up on a bench could be a suicide. Two students with explosives sounds very much like a plot. Putting explosives on airplanes sounds very much like terrorism.
ping
Engineering, mechanical, and medical schools are magnets for foreign students. Then you throw in a few guilty/puny/inferior domestics and voila! instant sympathizers.
I am not convinced the OU/Kansas game suicide was just a 'suicide'. If you want to commit suicide and you are not a muslim, you don't go around with an explosive device. What would be the point of it if you WEREN'T a muslim?
Mohammed Atta, Marwan al-Shehhi, and Zacarias Moussaoui all had ties to Norman, OK.
http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:7btOWf-PQAoJ:www.usdoj.gov/ag/moussaouiindictment.htm+norman+oklahoma+moussaoui&hl=en
Wasn't Berg at OU at the time?
The Murrah Building bombing showed us no place is safe.
Norman OK is like Austin, a college town, today's last bastions of communism. The place is full of anarchists, socialists, Islamists, and yes, Democrats who will do anything to attack Bush.
Airman Flight School in Norman is also where bin Laden's personal pilot trained.
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/context.jsp?item=a0999flightschool
This thread deserves a lot more attention than it's getting.
Agreed. I am sitting here with my mouth open.
Berg, too, huh?
Becki
One theory...the student who died was planting bombs on buses which were to carry hundreds of students home after the football game. What could be more American than college football. If this theory is true the government will likely do everything it can to coverf it up.
Just another coincidence...
(Do I need a < /sarcasm > tag?)
Good Freepin', Sully. *SHIVER*
can we get a pic of this guy? I wonder if he looks like the other one... (beard no mustache)
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