[savedbygrace]

Here's a factless supposition:

Assuming this is a Muslim event at its core, what if his handlers caught wind of the fact that the Norman PD was checking him out, and they made the quick decision to "set him up the bomb"?

I don't have any knowledge of how and why his bomb exploded, but if it's possible his handlers set it off, what do you think of this as one possibility? His handlers knew they needed a lily-white, and all of a sudden, he's under suspicion.

[doug from upland]

I don't have the answers. I was out of town for five days and am way behind the news cycle.

[Iscool]

I don't have any knowledge of how and why his bomb exploded, but if it's possible his handlers set it off, what do you think of this as one possibility? His handlers knew they needed a lily-white, and all of a sudden, he's under suspicion.

I'm with you on this...A white guy with a backpack is a lot less suspicious than a muzlim looking terrorist with a backpack...It's easy to speculate and I can vision the frustration from the A-rabs as well as the white guy...

He tries to get in a number of gates and having failed, he sits down on a bench wondering what to do with all these explosives...

At the same time, the trigger guys are aware of the failure and don't dare leave this bomb un-detonated...So the white guy and the bomb have got to go...

[dljordan]

"I don't have any knowledge of how and why his bomb exploded, but if it's possible his handlers set it off, what do you think of this as one possibility? His handlers knew they needed a lily-white, and all of a sudden, he's under suspicion."

I was wondering that earlier today. Maybe they thought he wouldn't do it and set it off themselves from somewhere else in the area.