Posted on 10/04/2005 8:47:12 PM PDT by LdSentinal
NORMAN, Oklahoma (AP) -- The father of a University of Oklahoma student who committed suicide outside a packed football stadium using explosives said Monday his son didn't intend to harm anyone else or push a political agenda.
Joel Henry Hinrichs III, 21, died Saturday when a device attached to his body exploded about 8 p.m. while he sat on a bench, officials said.
The blast could be heard inside the stadium less than 100 yards away where more than 80,000 people attended OU's game against Kansas State.
Joel Hinrichs Jr. said that his son did not leave a suicide note and that FBI agents told him hydrogen peroxide was used to construct the bomb.
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For some reason, I think I may have met the guy during Rush Week (he was in the Triangle fraternity). And if it was politically/religiously motivated, we probably would've found notes and messages from him on the subject.
I love it how many FReepers jump to conclusions.
Funny some say he looks Muslim in this pick.... I would have sworn he was Amish! (perspective folks!)
He may be right... For muslims it is not politics it is religion. To kill the infidel is to go straight to paridise.
Yeah, an "open area" where there are tens-of-thousands of people around waiting to exit a game. That's real "open."
How thoughtful of the terrorist maggot.
As stated before, BAN THE QURAN!
I'm not politically motivated, either. Do I HAVE to blow myself and some people up?
guy looks like doogie howser.
how many did he kill besides himself again?
oh yeah...none...
Yeah it seems pretty dang inconsiderate to me to have your body pieces strewn about for anyone to step on. I mean that has got to be a major even in the psych trauma annals.
Nice considerate suicides should write their notes. Go out to a place for from civilization and then commit the act.
Truthfully I believe suicide is horrible and I grieve for those who think death is the only solution. But to say any suicide but especially a public one is a considerate act is just assinine.
You see this?
Maybe he was an Amish wannabee?
;^)
I, too, would have thought Amish, but he's not wearing a hat.
I, too, would have thought Amish, but he's not wearing a hat.
Leni
its the new hatless sect from california...! :)
j/k
You don't have to be a tinfoil hat type to see the FBI has been doing everything possible to avoid calling terrorist incidtents "terrorist" since 9-11. DC sniper John MOHAMMED? Not a terrorist. An Egyptian muslim shoots up the El Al counter at LAX? No terrorism there. Nope, not a single incident since 9-11. Unless a perp has an official Al Qaeda membership card it's just another random act of senseless violence.
it's bad enough for his family that he died this way - why make it worse by connecting him to AQ /sarc
News 9 is reporting that he went to the same mosque as Zacarias Moussaoui.
http://newsok.com/video/1633639/
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