Can you post a brief transcript please, infowarrior? A detailed one would be great but a brief one should do the trick considering the time right now. I am trying to replay the videos to transcribe them but am having absoluly no luck in getting the videos to play. The script text linns below the videos are just one-liners and are of no help.
TIA if it is not too much of a problem.
Sorry if this is a repost:
http://www.newsok.com/article/1634950/?template=home/main
Thu October 6, 2005
Officer had clue before OU blast
By Randy Ellis and Ty McMahan
The Oklahoman
NORMAN - Police here last week missed a chance to investigate a University of Oklahoma student three days before he apparently blew himself up Saturday outside the university’s packed football stadium, The Oklahoman has confirmed.
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Joel “Joe” Henry Hinrichs III raised the suspicions of a Norman feed store manager and an off-duty Norman police officer Sept. 28 when he tried to buy the type of fertilizer used in the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building.
The off-duty officer, who just happened to be in the store, was concerned enough about Hinrichs’ demeanor that he jotted down his license tag number and called the police department to check his identity, officials said.
“Normal protocol is for that officer to submit an intelligence report when he comes back on duty,” said Lt. Tom Easley, spokesman for the Norman Police Department. “My understanding is that when the officer did return to work, he did submit one, but that was after the fact.”
The bomb had already gone off.
Hinrichs, 21, is believed to have died in an explosion about 7:30 p.m. Saturday on a campus bench about 100 yards from Gaylord Family - Oklahoma Memorial Stadium. Investigators are treating the death as a suicide. He was a junior engineering major.
Easley declined to release the intelligence report or name the officer who filed it, saying intelligence reports are confidential. A copy of the report was turned over the FBI, he said.
Dustin Ellison, general manager of Ellison Feed & Seed, said Hinrichs came to his store about 4 p.m. Sept. 28 and said he was looking for a particular kind of fertilizer called ammonium nitrate.
“I told him I didn’t have that,” said Ellison, 25.
Ellison said he became suspicious when the young man couldn’t answer the most simple questions, such as how much he wanted or what he planned to do with it.
“I asked if he was trying to green up his yard, and he said, ‘Something like that,’” Ellison said.
Hinrichs was wearing blue jeans, a T-shirt and a light green vest with a number of pockets on each side when he visited the store, Ellison said.
“All the pockets were full,” Ellison said, adding that he saw what appeared to be a wire with headphones attached protruding from one pocket.
“I don’t have any reason to believe it was anything other than that,” he said.
Ellison said Hinrichs was alone and calm throughout his visit.
Hinrichs drove off in a blue Lincoln Towncar, Ellison said.
Ellison said FBI agents came by his store Sunday and he identified Hinrichs from photos.
Easley, the Norman police spokesman, said he is skeptical police could have stopped the bombing, even if they immediately had begun investigating when the officer first called in the license number.
“Seventy-two hours on a piece of intelligence like that, I don’t know what we could have done anyway,” he said.
Officers could have used the tag number to get an address and then checked to see whether it was current, Easley said.
If they could identify a current address, they could have tried to question him, but that doesn’t mean Hinrichs would have had to answer, he said.
Intelligence reports normally are forwarded to the police department’s special operations unit, which categorizes them and decides what to do next, Easley said.
The unit deals mostly with drug investigations, so the information probably would have been forwarded to counter-terrorism officials to evaluate, he said.
Hinrichs’ Towncar remained outside his Norman apartment Wednesday.
The FBI apparently collected 13 plastic bottles, one car title and one insurance form from the car, according to paperwork on the front seat.
There also was a large atlas and several road maps on the front seat.
Cesar Robledo, Hinrichs’ next-door neighbor, said FBI agents questioned him about Hinrichs’ personality and habits, but didn’t ask about his religion or any materials he may have taken into the house.
“We always say, ‘What do they do over there?’ They don’t talk to us, so we don’t know,” said Robledo, 22. “We have no idea what’s on that side of the wall.”
http://www.oudaily.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/10/05/4344a2c30d701
EXCERPT
Standing to the side was Hossam Barakat, an OU Arabic instructor who lives nearby at Parkview Apartments, 606 Stinson Ave.
Although he was also celebrating the Muslim holiday, Barakat was also thinking about the events of this past weekend, when Joel “Joe” Henry Hinrichs, a 21-year-old mechanical engineering junior, died in an explosion around 7:30 p.m. Saturday while sitting on a park bench on the South Oval about 100 yards away from Oklahoma Memorial Stadium during the second quarter of the OU-Kansas State football game.
“I’m concerned about the [Muslim] community,” Barakat said. “Hopefully by next week it’s going to be cleared that he’s not involved in this community.”
With Internet reports and newscasts purporting a supposed connection between Hinrichs and the mosque, Barakat and other Muslims are worried about public perception.
“I’ve never seen (Hinrichs) before, just on the news,” Barakat said.
He did, however, know OU finance major Fazal M. Cheema, Hinrichs’ roommate.
On the night of the explosion, Barakat was visiting friends, including Cheema, at his apartment complex. Around midnight — about four and a half hours after the explosion on the South Oval — Cheema exited the apartment and Barakat said he heard Cheema being taken into custody by Norman Police Department officers, who urged Barakat and the six or seven others to stay inside.
Around 4 a.m. Barakat and the others were taken one-by-one and questioned by the FBI. They were questioned again the next day and cleared of suspicion, Barakat said.
Ok, here's a transcript of the link entitled "More Details Emerge About OU Suicide Bomber (October 5)...
Male Anchor:
"The metamorphosis of Joel Hinrich appears to have been in full swing by the time of the blast at OU. Tamara Pratt is learning more, things law enforcement is not publicly revealing..."
Tamara Pratt:
"From National Merit Scholar to suicide bomber, and in between, here's what we've learned..
The two faces of the 21 year old. One, clean shaven, which the FBI released. The other, most likely came from Hinrich's family. Now, News 9 sources tell us, recently, Joel Hinrich has spent much of his time at the Norman mosque. A signifigant piece of the puzzle, because Zecharias Massoaui, the only man charged in the 9-11 attacks also spent time there.
As for the bomb, we've learned it was what is known as a TATP bomb, a highly volatile mixture of acetone and peroxide. It can be made from hair bleach, and sulfuric acid, simple over-the-counter items anyone can purchase.
There were intial reports of a second device at the scene, right after the first explosion Saturday night. A ststement released from OU President David Boren after the blast stated 'The second detonation was the bomb squad making sure that there was not a second device.' Which, is true...However, we've learned that what techs were exploding were chemical compounds. Again, not an actual device, but potential bomb parts.
Law enforcement did an extensive search of Hinrich's university owned apartment and vehicle. Sources indicate (unintelligible to me) an airline ticket, destination: Algeria, for a future date. The name on the ticket repotedly links back to Hinrich's roommate, 24 year old Fazzel Cheema, raising the question, were others involved?
Sources now tell News 9 five others were reportedly involved. That does not mean that others have been arrested, or will be arrested, nor does it mean that they were detained. Right now, we are trying to determine if those 5 others 'involved' were involved with the bomb, or involved with allegedly moving items out of an apartment..."
(End of transcript)...
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