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To: LibertyRocks
I just looked at the KOCO TV site to see if they had anything online yet about the Freepers reports of the missing Paki roommate.

Not yet, but they do have a story with quotes from the father about how his son wasn't politically motivated (the one he only had recent contact with via some email.)

they also had this quote

Donald Hamilton, interim director of the Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism in Oklahoma City, said it appears Saturday's incident was not an act of terrorism.

"Scholars of terrorism immediately and categorically exclude irrational acts from their definition of terrorism," Hamilton said. "Terrorists have purpose. They have motive. It's just as simple as that ... and if that is not present, it's not terrorism."

More and more interesting tidbits come in and they really are trying to keep us from making the jump to terrorism.

141 posted on 10/03/2005 7:09:50 PM PDT by not_apathetic_anymore
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To: not_apathetic_anymore

Yeah, I noticed that... the family and the FBI are really trying to push the fact that this was NOT terrorism related - saying he had no motive. Interesting that the father is SO SURE that he had no political feelings and such after it was reported he only had occasional email contact and the last time he saw him was a year ago for half and hour when he was going through town on a "road trip" (the stuff about contact with his family was reported in the CO Springs Gazette).


144 posted on 10/03/2005 7:19:30 PM PDT by LibertyRocks
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To: not_apathetic_anymore
Donald Hamilton, interim director of the Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism in Oklahoma City, said it appears Saturday's incident was not an act of terrorism. "Scholars of terrorism immediately and categorically exclude irrational acts from their definition of terrorism," Hamilton said. "Terrorists have purpose. They have motive. It's just as simple as that ... and if that is not present, it's not terrorism."

Hamilton is as clueless as anybody else. How does he know there is no motive to method to Johnny Jihadi's madness?
154 posted on 10/03/2005 7:43:40 PM PDT by indcons (How about rooting for our side for a change, you liberal morons?)
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To: not_apathetic_anymore
"More and more interesting tidbits come in and they really are trying to keep us from making the jump to terrorism."

Along those lines is the following article/story printed. Apparently the FBI automatically considers it "merely a suicide" if you haven't actively made threats to others beforehand. *shaking my head in disbelief*

BOMBING AT OU CAMPUS APPEARS TO BE ISOLATED SUICIDAL EVENT
Monday, October 03, 2005

It appears that an explosion near the football stadium at the University of Oklahoma is an isolated incident, but federal agents and bomb squad experts are still combing through the apartment of an OU junior killed in the blast.

Joel Hinrichs, who had been studying engineering at the University, apparently detonated an explosive while sitting on a bench about 100 yards from the packed stadium, during Saturday`s football game. Agents found materials used to make bombs in Hinrich`s apartment, but an FBI spokesman says there is nothing to suggest that Hinrich made any threats to others, meaning that this was merely a suicide.

223 posted on 10/04/2005 12:01:25 AM PDT by LibertyRocks
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