Boy, that's too far-fetched for me to swallow. I was about to answer with a LOL at the absurdity of such a thought uttered out loud, but I believe you guys are serious, deadly serious, even though the news releases say it is from overseas.
I go back to my gut feeling of a couple of nights ago that we have a nutcase bomber who was very probably egged on and helped by the local Islamics (though he was likely excited enough to do it on his own) who got himself blown up through his own fault. And it was just Providence that he tried but didn't get into the stadium and cause a panic and direct and indirect deaths.
Some nutcases like McVeigh and Nichols are so caught up in their own little worlds and hatreds that they will willingly make common cause with radical Muslims to advance their own private jihad, whether it be against the ATF, FBI, etc. A conspiracy, yes, but IMO very likely local as far as an Anglo-Muslim connection goes. However, the fact that many Muslims are in the area can lead to a critical mass of individuals from whom they can draw to plan their terror attacks and this rat's nest does need to be cleansed, PC be damned.
This leads to my disgust with the OU president. I am completely furious with a bureaucratic administrator like Boren who denies evidence that this "depressed individual" was much more than that and issues an insipid e-mail saying "all is well; let's all just get along". Even if this incident is nothing more than a single nutcase, Boren deserves retirement for his issuing reassuring platitudes in the face of overwhelming evidence that a tragic incident was only very narrowly avoided. Loss of funding from Middle-East supporters must be very much on his mind for him to ignore the threat continuing to grow under his very nose.
Did you know that members of the Iraqi Republican Guard were resettled to OKC from Iraq after Gulf War I -- didn't know that until this week.
There is more at stake for the likes of Boren than loss of funding from ME types. Think NCAA, and you get the real picture as to exactly why he spun his propeller beanie into warp speed right away. The $$$ generated by college football far exceeds that given by ME alumni, and in far too many colleges, it's the major source of revenue...
the infowarrior