Posted on 10/04/2005 4:11:44 PM PDT by hispanarepublicana
NORMAN, Okla. -- The general manager of a Norman feed store said Tuesday that Joel Henry Hinrichs III had inquired about purchasing a significant amount of ammonium nitrate, the primary ingredient used in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
Dustin Ellison, the general manager of Ellison Feed & Seed on Porter Avenue, said that a man matching Hinrichs' description had come into the store days before he blew himself up on OU's campus. Ellison said the man asked about ammonium nitrate, but couldn't offer a reason why he needed it.
After the bombing, Ellison said he thought nothing of it. However, when he saw Hinrichs' photo, it triggered his memory.
To this point, authorities still suggest Hinrichs' only motive for blowing himself up was suicide. The FBI released a statement Tuesday evening saying that "there is no known link between Hinrichs and any terrorist or extremist organization(s) or activities."
The release also indicated that the FBI believes there is "no known current threat posed by any additional explosive materials."
Ellison noted that his store doesn't carry ammonium nitrate any longer after recent legislation required new paperwork for stores to sell the product.
Stay tuned to Eyewitness News 5 for further details.
Doogie Houser grew a beard!!!!
You might go do a search on eBay, and see.
I don't think this is the time of year they fertilize, though....is it?
"I might be on the phone every time someone came in asking for AN. (And yes, some do wear cammos, more or less often depending on if they're doing some hunting after they put in the order for fertilizer.)"
No tan, no calluses on the hands, unfamiliarity with the product to the point of not knowing 10-10-10 from double ought six. My father grew up on a farm, all my neighbors growing up were farmers and I worked summers on those farms before I got my driver's license and "escaped," lol. There are obvious visual cues, and this guy would know them just as well, if not more so, than I do.
Let's hope KOCO has also talked to a forgetful Ryder rental employee in Norman in the meantime.
Ping to #123--I can't use newsok.com, but I think most folks can. (Their coding doesn't like my browser, or is it the other way around...)
"Contiuing saga of missing ammo, guy on ebay told me he had my dorm address, didn't register that address with ebay"
Some on this weekend's thread checked the EBay policy on guns and ammo and determined they weren't allowed.
If "ammo" = AN, then the whole fraternity should be heavily investigated. I'm sure they are anyway although what they tell us is "Move along, little doggies".
Sure. Winter crops.
No one discuss all the hubub from a couple years ago when we were warned the islamo-terrorists were trying to recruit non-Arabs to facilitate attacks inside our country....
shhhh.....
Kit.
Actually I would rather not check that, thanks.
Whatever. Since you're the expert, let's just put it all on your shoulders. The facts are, this is farming country. Lots of farmers buy fertilizer. Some clerks in farm supply stores haven't worked there all their lives, and they hope they won't have to either, because it's a minimum wage job. You want to unload on a clerk, go ahead. You look like a bully, though. (It's not as though he sold him any of it anyway.)
LOL--me, neither!
I think the link to that Channel 9 video would qualify as an entirely seperate thread with a brief synopsis. It IS from a different news outlet, after all (it's going to take a lot of BUMPS of a lot of threads to keep this story alive and point out MSM=MIA).
I agree, it might deserve its own thread.
Will you do it?
"Whatever. Since you're the expert"
LOL. I'm a bully? Well, at least I'm not passive agressive, neener neener neener.
Look, I'm just saying don't unload on the clerk. He wasn't the one who tried to blow up OU.
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