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OU bomber had huge explosive stash; Mystery remains over suicide outside Sooners game
World Net Daily ^ | 10/3/05

Posted on 10/03/2005 1:06:13 PM PDT by hispanarepublicana

© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com Local and federal agents were carting away what was described as a huge cache of explosives from the apartment of the 21-year-old student who blew himself up outside the stadium where 84,000 watched a Sooners football game.

Joel Henry Hinrichs III, 21, a junior from Colorado Springs, Colo., died in the explosion, according to FBI officials.

Investigators believe Hinrichs detonated a bomb about 8 p.m. Saturday, just 100 yards away from the packed football stadium.

Police were overheard telling residents it would take "several trips and could take up to 24 hours" to remove it all, according to the Daily Oklahoman.

A canister trailer used for detonating or transporting potentially explosive material was being used to haul items away.

Officials said Hinrichs' motive for blowing himself up Saturday near the Gaylord Family - Oklahoma Memorial Stadium during the second quarter of OU's game against Kansas State remains under investigation.

OU President David Boren said Hinrichs was a student "who had very, serious personal problems that led to this tragic death."

Because of what happened, Boren said, the FBI had taken over the investigation.

Boren said the student had explosives strapped to his body.

Investigators would not say whether they believe Hinrichs intended to go inside the stadium before the detonation happened.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: Oklahoma; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: hinrichs; norman; normanbombing; ou; oubombing; sooners; suicidebomber; terrorism
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To: hispanarepublicana

No, we can link to WND. They are one of the few 'net friendly sources that don't require an auto-excerpt, in fact.

I just duplicated your post. I searched for it while you were busy posting it. By the time mine went live, yours was already posted. Missed you by a couple of minutes.

I've done the same thing with wagglebee in the past. We tend to gravitate to the same content.


41 posted on 10/03/2005 1:39:13 PM PDT by ovrtaxt (Relying on the MSM for news is like using suppositories for recreational purposes.)
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To: sono

What is their agenda? Just curious. I'd never heard this before. Is it different from the agenda of the MSM that seems to be spiking this story?


42 posted on 10/03/2005 1:39:24 PM PDT by hispanarepublicana (No amnesty needed...My ancestors proudly served. [remodel of an old '70s bumper sticker])
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To: konaice
But before he gets in, while arming it, the cell phone gets a call, or he pushes a button accidently on it, causing the speaker to sound (the easiest circuit to tap for trigger pulse is the cellphone ringer and/or speaker).

Could be. My cell phone chirps when I lose coverage, then it returns.

43 posted on 10/03/2005 1:40:29 PM PDT by ko_kyi
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To: adgirl

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That way if they have a bomb, they can blow up alone. Is that rude?
<<

Great, simple and effective idea.

Just try getting it past the ACLU.

Hell, try it out on the ACLU.


44 posted on 10/03/2005 1:40:38 PM PDT by noblejones
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To: hispanarepublicana

Farah 's site is similar to Debka in reliability - Verify, Then Trust.


45 posted on 10/03/2005 1:42:20 PM PDT by sono
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To: konaice

Yeah.....I've been wondering if/why a SUICIDAL person would do themselves in and leave all those valuable explosives untouched in his apartment.
I read somewhere that one of the warning signs of a suicidal person is that, in addition to the other signs, they start giving their possessions away.


46 posted on 10/03/2005 1:42:43 PM PDT by hispanarepublicana (No amnesty needed...My ancestors proudly served. [remodel of an old '70s bumper sticker])
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To: livius

Actually, that particular footage was shown on local news (carrying off the bomb materials). You're right about the source of the Islamic materials information, and folks can give it as much weight as they like. I kind of like seeing all the info out there and letting people decide which parts don't work, and which parts do.


47 posted on 10/03/2005 1:43:48 PM PDT by MizSterious (Now, if only we could convince them all to put on their bomb-vests and meet in Mecca...)
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To: ovrtaxt; hispanarepublicana

I kind of figured that out, but offered a stage whisper for the studio audience. ;^)


48 posted on 10/03/2005 1:47:17 PM PDT by Majic (Science is applied philosophy.)
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To: Hyzenthlay

I'm not discounting theories here, but today's paper is the more likely judge of whether it is being suppresed. By the time it happened on Saturday, Sunday's papers were pretty much put to bed. If it showed up in Sunday's papers it probably would just be a short story.


49 posted on 10/03/2005 1:49:24 PM PDT by GOP_Proud (Those who preach tolerance most, have the least for my views.)
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To: hispanarepublicana
From a site for pious muslims, via google, (Hair, According to Quran and Sunnah, at: http://muttaqun.com/hair.html)

* Do not pluck grey hairs [dyeing is recommended]
* Get rid of those braid extensions and hair pieces!
* Clip the moustache and nails, etc, within 40 days
* Women should not put all her hair up on the top of her haid like a camel hump. She may put it up at home as long as some hair lays on her neck still, but not when leaving the house in hijab where the hump can be seen to be under the hijab and drawing attention to her hair.
* While doing salah [prayers], a man should not have his hair braided or pulled back in a knot
* Comb your hair from the right side first
* Destroy your clipped nails and hair after cutting it by collecting it and burying it. It is not a sin if you don't destroy your hair, but it is preferable.
* A woman should not have a hairstyle that resembles a man's hairstyle.
* Do not imitate the hair styles or colors of the Jews and Christians; do the opposite!

50 posted on 10/03/2005 1:49:32 PM PDT by yatros from flatwater
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To: konaice
You can not get into a Sooner game without having a purse or backpack searched. Mind you, it is not a very thourough search, but it is a search. Also, there is a limit to how big of a bag or backpack you can carry in. It really makes sneaking a flask in tricky!
51 posted on 10/03/2005 1:53:29 PM PDT by gulf1609
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To: yatros from flatwater

These people are just NUTS!


52 posted on 10/03/2005 1:56:41 PM PDT by mlc9852
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To: hispanarepublicana

He was probably going to shoot it inside the stadium but forgot to buy a ticket.


53 posted on 10/03/2005 1:58:21 PM PDT by Busywhiskers ("...moral principle, the sine qua non of an orderly society." --Judge Edith H. Jones)
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To: hispanarepublicana
My guess is Hinrichs was kept from reaching his target by a premature detonation.

Sheep hate this.

54 posted on 10/03/2005 1:58:41 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (When a Jihadist dies, an angel gets its wings)
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To: gulf1609
You can not get into a Sooner game without having a purse or backpack searched. Mind you, it is not a very thourough search, but it is a search. Also, there is a limit to how big of a bag or backpack you can carry in. It really makes sneaking a flask in tricky!

And maybe that's why he made an explosive vest rather than a backpack.

55 posted on 10/03/2005 2:02:01 PM PDT by konaice
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To: konaice; Majic
I became convinced the media is controlled when I read the Nelson Demille novel Nightfall and the author's note at the end: TWA 800 was downed by a missile, and the media is cooperating with the government to suppress this information. Why? I am not sure. I think it is to reassure the public that air travel is safe; the collapse of civil aviation would be economically disastrous and a big victory for the terrorists.

And that airplane that went down in Queens? What's the true story on that?

56 posted on 10/03/2005 2:02:05 PM PDT by megatherium
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To: Prime Choice

I read at the time, at a website Freepers apparently loathe, that the LA Airport shooter was a member of Islamic Jihad.


57 posted on 10/03/2005 2:03:53 PM PDT by popdonnelly
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To: battlegearboat

Does anyone know where it exploded? It looked like it was near Gould Hall, my old geology department, but someone said near the Microbiology Dept.


58 posted on 10/03/2005 2:05:43 PM PDT by job ("God is not dead nor doth He sleep")
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To: megatherium

Of course you realize that questioning the official version of anything is a quick way to be labeled a "tinfoiler". ;^P

For my part, I wear aluminum foil for cost reasons.

After all, the mind rays adapt if you don't change the resonant frequency of your hat frequently. <8^O

Knowing that there's something fishy going on in the commercial media (aka "MSM") and has been for decades still doesn't blunt the impact of witnessing a nationwide news blackout in a case like this.

I don't have a TV and rarely listen to the radio, but today I've been following my local affiliate -- and continuing to be amazed by the ongoing and deliberate absence of this story.

Un-freakin'-believable! :^(


59 posted on 10/03/2005 2:09:26 PM PDT by Majic (Science is applied philosophy.)
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To: megatherium

But one of the NBC anchors let it slip on 9/11. Kouric or her sidekick, I don't recall which, actually said "...when they blew up flight 800..."


60 posted on 10/03/2005 2:10:30 PM PDT by MizSterious (Now, if only we could convince them all to put on their bomb-vests and meet in Mecca...)
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