Posted on 10/05/2005 6:03:56 PM PDT by hispanarepublicana
3 videos on the right-hand video listing. Summary:
Hinrichs spent time in the same Norman mosque as Moussaui
Ticket to Algeria was found linking back to his Pakistani roommate
5 others possibly involved
Hinrichs attempted to enter the stadium and may have had a ticket to the game
The Mainstream Media is too busy trying to destroy the Bush legacy, to notice our first suicide bomber.
Thank God it did not go as planned and he was not allowed in the stadium because of the bag searching that all had to go through.
Your input is very valuable on these threads. Thanks.
immaculate conceptions usually are.
K Lopez of National Review Online posted info on this to their "The Corner" this morning....
"..that kid who blew himself up in Oklahoma last weekend was a recent convert to Islam who wound up at the same mosque once attended by Zacarias Moussaoui? Yikes."
Perhaps the bomb had a timer or a remote detonator.
If you want the opposite of great work, here's the Tulsa World's whining front-page article from this morning's edition (Thursday, Oct 6, 2005) about how the Muslims in Norman are being treated. I would have expected nothing less from the Tulsa World. Plenty of apology from OU too.
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Muslims queried about OU blast
By MICK HINTON World Capitol Bureau
10/6/2005
They were handcuffed and questioned after Joel Hinrichs III was killed in an explosion, the leader of an Islamic group says.
Three Muslims living in the same apartment complex as Joel Hinrichs III, who died Saturday night in an apparent suicide explosion on campus, were handcuffed and questioned by law enforcement officers, the president of the Islamic Society of Norman said Wednesday.
Ashraf Hussein, a University of Oklahoma junior, said he learned of the handcuffing incident by talking to the three students.
"This has become a story about the Muslims," said Hussein, who is distressed by the aftermath of the weekend tragedy.
Hinrichs' roommate, Fazil M. Cheema, who is from Pakistan, was questioned by police earlier but apparently was not handcuffed.
Hussein said he chose not to reveal the names of the three Muslims, who were not Pakistanis. Hussein said Cheema was not a regular at the Islamic Center and that he was sure he had never seen Hinrichs there.
Hussein said he received a phone message from one of the three men who were questioned at the apartment building by law enforcement officers late Saturday or early Sunday. He said the officers apparently were FBI agents because the investigation had been turned over to that agency.
The Islamic Society president said he thought officers were probably being overly cautious about a possible Mideast connection, which Hussein said is unsettling to him.
FBI spokesman Gary Johnson declined any comment on the case Wednesday.
Meanwhile, Catherine Bishop, OU vice president of communications, said Wednesday that she has not been able to ascertain that any students had been handcuffed. Bishop said the school has done "everything we could to verify that arrests of students had occurred, but we haven't found anything. This is not something we would keep from the public."
Bishop said OU officials have spent considerable time tracking down rumors about Hinrichs' death.
Several students who live at Parkview Apartments, where Hinrichs lived, were questioned, she said, but, to her knowledge, they were not detained or arrested.
Hussein said he did not know Cheema, who has moved out of Parkview Apartments and has located elsewhere in Norman. Cheema could not be reached for comment Wednesday.
A device attached to Hinrichs' body exploded, killing the 21-year-old as he sat on a park bench about 100 yards from Memorial Stadium, where 80,000 fans were watching the OU-Kansas State football game.
OU President David Boren said Tuesday that authorities continue to believe that Hinrichs did not try to get into the stadium and that he acted alone.
Boren said the people living near Hinrichs in the apartment complex were questioned, along with his acquaintances.
"None of those people have been held by law enforcement," he said.
Boren also said authorities found materials in Hinrichs' apartment that were detonated at a police bomb range.
On Tuesday, Dustin Ellison, whose family owns Ellison Feed and Seed store in Norman, said Hinrichs had tried to purchase ammonium nitrate from the store three days before the explosion on the south oval of the campus.
Ellison said Hinrichs acted "weird" when he was asked why he wanted the fertilizer, which was a key ingredient in the bomb that killed 168 people in 1995 in Oklahoma City.
FBI agents interviewed Ellison on Sunday, showing him pictures of Hinrichs, whom Ellison identified as the young man who had come into his store.
Ellison said the man was driving a blue Lincoln Continental. It has been reported that an off-duty Norman police officer was in the store at the time, took down the license tag number on the vehicle and later reported it to the FBI.
However, Ellison said he was not at liberty to confirm or deny that report.
Lt. Tom Easley, spokesman for the Norman Police Department, said an officer who was not in uniform did file an "intelligence report" with authorities, but Easley would not elaborate.
Thanks for the post.
Hey Hussein, (nice name by the way), if the officers were NOT being "overly" cautious about a possible mideast connection to a suicide bombing just outside a stadium filled with 80K+ people, that would be very unsettling to the rest of us.
WTH?!?
2nd Violent Suicide On Higher Ed Campus
Wednesday, October 5, 2005 at 6:08pm
For the second time in less than a week, a violent suicide has occurred on an Oklahoma school campus. A former student shot and killed herself today in front of a startled deputy on the Francis Tuttle Technology Center in Oklahoma City.
By Jerry Bohnen
Four days after a student killed himself with a bomb on the OU campus, a former student at the Francis Tuttle Technology Center shot and killed herself in front of a sheriff's deputy.
Police say the late afternoon shooting today occurred in the school's Information Technology building. A spokesman on the campus at 12777 North Rockwell said the woman pulled out a handgun and shot herself in the head after she was confronted by the Oklahoma County sheriff's deputy.
No one else, including the startled deputy was injured in the shooting. Classes at the Information Technology center were cancelled for the night and tomorrow.
No kidding. They can put some ice on it, as far as I'm concerned.
Can you put me on the list to receive info on this case?
I cant believe how this news is being avoided by the media - I dont hear anything about it down here.
Note in the pictures (on this thread), the surveilance camera on top of the light pole...
Not sure if its watching them, or us...
There's more to this bombing than is being reported...
I bet you a dollar there will be a marked decrease in attendance at the next game...
Is he trying to say that the roomate knew nothing about the materials (propaganda and explosives) left in the apartment? B>S> He knew!
RE: post 829
I'd suspect some of our numerous refinery fires too. It's a dangerous business, but there's been a ton of fires in the last few years.
I bet there will not be. If there is, it may be because of a loss to Texas this weekend in Dallas. People love their OU football and I bet they will not let terrorists dictate where they can go and what they can do. Now, it will be harder to get a flask in.
Reason #3. There is a LOT of money at sporting events, including MLB, the new hockey season, NFL, and colleges that stay afloat based on FB revenue. Economic strategy.
Bus incidents. I forgot about those. MSM obviously kept those very quiet as well : (
But I thought Cheema was a really really nice guy?!?!
Keep an eye on the baseball playoffs as well.
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