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Authorities held, released Pakistani roommate of OU suicide bomber
Tulsa World/AP ^ | 10/5/2005 10:39:00 AM

Posted on 10/05/2005 10:10:11 AM PDT by sully777

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) -- The Pakistani roommate of a man authorities say died when he detonated an explosive device outside a crowded football stadium was led in handcuffs from a party shortly after Saturday's explosion, the head of an Islamic student group said.

Fazal M. Cheema, a finance major, shared a university-owned apartment with Joel Hinrichs III, 21, who died Saturday when a device attached to his body exploded as he sat on a bench outside George Lynn Cross Hall.

Cheema and three other Muslim students were led in handcuffs from a party by police after the blast, Ashraf Hussein, president of the Muslim Student Association, said Tuesday. They later were released...

...OU President David Boren said authorities continue to believe that Hinrichs... acted alone. He said Hinrichs' roommate, along with his acquaintances, were questioned by federal authorities...

The FBI said in a statement Tuesday that there is no current threat posed by additional explosive materials, that there is no known threat from anyone else related to the incident and that there is no known link between Hinrichs and any terrorist or extremist organization or activities...

Meanwhile, Norman feed store operator Dustin Ellison said Hinrichs attempted to purchase ammonium nitrate a few days before the explosion...a key ingredient in the 1995 attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.

The FBI told [Hinrich's father]...more high-density hydrogen peroxide was found in the apartment.

(Excerpt) Read more at tulsaworld.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; US: Colorado; US: Oklahoma; War on Terror
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To: sully777
Funny how this story and the story concerning the pipe bomb found on an OK City plane has died quickly

What pipe bomb, when, what airline, and where please.

121 posted on 10/05/2005 1:51:43 PM PDT by Yellow Rose of Texas (WAR: 1/3 yes, 1/3 no, 1/3 undecided; So began the American Revolution)
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To: sully777; SJackson; yonif; Simcha7; American in Israel; Slings and Arrows; judicial meanz; ...
""Joe would have become a Muslim fanatic when pigs fly," the father side."

Stranger things have happened.

I found it intriguing this individual had contact with young male Muslims.

Not "profiling" or anything.  !

(Follow up on the Oklahoma U. suicide bombing.)


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122 posted on 10/05/2005 1:57:00 PM PDT by Salem (FREE REPUBLIC - Fighting to win within the Arena of the War of Ideas! So get in the fight!)
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To: sully777
He is one semester away from completing an aviation management degree, his lawyer Kent Eldridge said...[

This cant be for real..

123 posted on 10/05/2005 2:01:16 PM PDT by cardinal4 (No more catchy taglines-The Left just plain sucks...)
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To: Yellow Rose of Texas
From post 11 on this thread.....

Student Arrested at Airport Free to Resume Classes The Norman Transcript
http://www.airportbusiness.com/article/article.jsp?id=3145&siteSection=5

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) -- A University of Oklahoma student accused of transporting an explosive device into Will Rogers World Airport last week is free to begin attending classes when the fall semester starts Monday. Charles A. Dreyling Jr., 24, who is free on $10,000 bail, remains a student at the university, OU spokeswoman Catherine Bishop said Tuesday. He is one semester away from completing an aviation management degree, his lawyer Kent Eldridge said...[Snip] ...Former Oklahoma City Mayor Kirk Humphreys (R), who is Dreyling's landlord and his longtime friend, said Dreyling had created a ''glorified firecracker'' and then forgotten that it was in his luggage...[snip] ...Dreyling was arrested at a security checkpoint on Aug. 10 after a Transportation Security Administration employee noticed something suspicious in his carryon luggage as it went through an X-ray machine. The device was described in an FBI affidavit as a CARBON DIOXIDE cartridge filled with gunpowder that could be detonated when connected to a power source such as the batteries Dreyling had in his electric razor and in his cell phone, which were also in his carryon bag...[Snip] ...U.S. Department of Homeland Security documents obtained by The Norman Transcript newspaper indicate federal agents who searched Dreyling's residence 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....[snip]
124 posted on 10/05/2005 2:02:27 PM PDT by LA Woman3 (The closest helping hand is the one at the end of your own arm....)
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To: GOP_1900AD

"...said clique who might be embedded Al Qaida or ISI operatives? Etc."

Sounds like the authorities opted for the "Etc." option.


125 posted on 10/05/2005 2:05:19 PM PDT by Marine_Uncle (Honor must be earned)
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To: Gone GF

"They throw huge parties lasting until dawn with tons of booze and good food. Many non Pakistanis are invited. Some of the women are strikingly beautiful. For young Euro-Americans, there might be a certain allure that arises from this situation."

It's alright for them to party like Americans but blow themselves up for allah. That proves their so-called jihad is all about murder, not even close to a 'reason'.


126 posted on 10/05/2005 2:06:52 PM PDT by quantfive
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To: sully777

If he was a "troubled, suicidal, white kid, why didnt he just drink some of the chemicals to kill himself? Why strap a bomb on him?


127 posted on 10/05/2005 2:10:10 PM PDT by cardinal4 (No more catchy taglines-The Left just plain sucks...)
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To: Cboldt

I think it was Sgt. Schultz and Colonel Klink..


128 posted on 10/05/2005 2:14:18 PM PDT by ariamne (Proud shieldmaiden of the infidel--never forget, never forgive 9/11)
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To: GOP_1900AD

When I heard his roommate was Pakistani, red flags went up all over the place. It seem like the fruits of infiltration are starting to pay themselves off if anything can be concluded from a college student trying to pull something like this off. Grey terror just went up a notch or two.


129 posted on 10/05/2005 2:20:46 PM PDT by DarkWaters
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To: weegee
Beslan. 180 CHILDREN tortured, shot, blown-up, bayonetted, dismembered. Not to discount the adults who shared their fate.

You're right, it dwarfs Columbine. I won't forgot, ever.

130 posted on 10/05/2005 2:23:18 PM PDT by ariamne (Proud shieldmaiden of the infidel--never forget, never forgive 9/11)
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To: DarkWaters

I also think that as a nation, we've been fairly blind to the ISI's operations. The ISI must have assets embeded amongst many of the Pakistani student cliques in the US (and UK).


131 posted on 10/05/2005 2:25:47 PM PDT by GOP_1900AD (Stomping on "PC," destroying the Left, and smoking out faux "conservatives" - Take Back The GOP!)
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To: ariamne
I think it was Sgt. Schultz and Colonel Klink.

Dang. I'm always mixing up "F Troop" and "Gomer Pyle, USMC".

;-)

Yes. I know. "Hogan's Heros".

132 posted on 10/05/2005 2:29:08 PM PDT by Cboldt
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PING...some news from the Tulsa World. A lot of this info was also available in the story from The Oklahoman. This story appears to be finally picking up speed in the MSM.

Thanks for the ping, oorang.


133 posted on 10/05/2005 2:31:03 PM PDT by indcons (FReepmail PhiKapMom and Indcons to join the "Norman bombing" ping list.)
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To: Cboldt
Actually, I was kind of embarrassed to admit I knew the names of the characters on Hogans Heroes!

: }

134 posted on 10/05/2005 2:32:57 PM PDT by ariamne (Proud shieldmaiden of the infidel--never forget, never forgive 9/11)
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To: GOP_1900AD

Boden - Senate Select Comm. on Intel. - Head of school in Norman,OK - Muslim population - Suspicious activity past & Prsent = When you have good bait, give it lots of line.


135 posted on 10/05/2005 2:46:19 PM PDT by WVNan
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To: LA Woman3

If Dryling was dumb enough to take this on an airplane, he should not be qualified to graduate.


137 posted on 10/05/2005 2:47:40 PM PDT by NorseWood
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To: indcons

"PING...some news from the Tulsa World. A lot of this info was also available in the story from The Oklahoman. This story appears to be finally picking up speed in the MSM.

Thanks for the ping, oorang."

Please link us to the reply or thread. Thanks.


138 posted on 10/05/2005 2:55:12 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Jamie Gorelick is responsible for more dead Americans(9-11) than those killed in Iraq.)
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To: weegee

I bet he drove a vehicle with an internal combustion engine--a favorite of jihadists. How many criminals do you know who have used steam engines? Definite connections!


139 posted on 10/05/2005 2:55:17 PM PDT by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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To: Grampa Dave

This is the thread, Grampa Dave. You're on/in it.


140 posted on 10/05/2005 2:57:00 PM PDT by indcons (FReepmail PhiKapMom and Indcons to join the "Norman bombing" ping list.)
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