Authorities held, released Pakistani roommate of OU suicide bomber

Tulsa World/AP ^ | 10/5/2005 10:39:00 AM

[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.

[Yellow Rose of Texas]

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.

[Salem]

""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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[cardinal4]

He is one semester away from completing an aviation management degree, his lawyer Kent Eldridge said...[

This cant be for real..

[LA Woman3]

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]

[Marine_Uncle]

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

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

[quantfive]

"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'.

[cardinal4]

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?

[ariamne]

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

[DarkWaters]

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.

[ariamne]

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.

[GOP_1900AD]

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).

[Cboldt]

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".

[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.

[ariamne]

Actually, I was kind of embarrassed to admit I knew the names of the characters on Hogans Heroes!

: }

[WVNan]

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.

[NorseWood]

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

[Grampa Dave]

"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.

[Gondring]

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!

[indcons]

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