Posted on 10/08/2005 10:50:00 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor
Police release Charles Bishop suicide note (15 yr old Tampa plane suicide, Osama sympathizer)
Both the MSM and the Bush Administration, for different reasons, want to avoid this being seen as a Muslim terrorist attack on US soil
The MSM do not want people to decide, from objective evidence, that a bunch of brown-skinned non-Christian people are savages who need to be excluded from Western Civilization
Bush does not want to risk the rise of a movement to deport and expel Muslims from the US, or worse have al-Jezzera showing pictures and video of burning mosques, or people throwing Qu'rans onto bonfires. Such would inflame the whole Islamic world against US more than they already are, and endanger US forces in Iraq more than they already are
We don't know.
There are suspected links to the OKC bombing.
The "19th hijacker", Mousaui. was there awhile. He even crossed paths with Nick Berg (using his computer account). Odd for a wandering college student who would later wind up captured and decapitated in Iraq.
Now another Norman OK death.
There are some suspicious activities there (often linked to the same Islamic center) but no conclusions.
We don't have all the pieces the authorities do.
But I thought it was claimed he was a "young conservative" and had an odd reaction to his pimple cream.
Why would the Joint Terrorism Task Force become the lead for this "lone suicide bomber of David Boren's imagination" if Boren was stating the truth?
Why would the Task Force leave the atlas and a list of items they took from the car in plain sight when they had the search warrant sealed? Do some members want this story kept alive and are giving clues. If you read The Oklahoman articles carefully you will usually pick up a sentence or two in all the spin that keeps leading right back to this was NO depressed suicide bomber set to blow himself up.
Lot of questions, few answers but clues are out there.
All of your reasoning is plausible. I'd like to add one more theory...
The MSM may be ignoring this on request from the FBI. Also, most reporters were saying this was a "dead" story last Monday. The AP has only released 3-4 articles which is what most reporters look for nowadays. As far as why the FBI might request it to be downplayed I see 2 possibilities; 1.) Matters of National Security - perhaps this event lead them to learning of the threats in NYC? or 2.) Perhaps they have found links and don't want to expose their ineptitude.
IMHO there is much more to fear from Americans thinking our gov't can't keep us safe from these things than Americans taking it out on Muslims and burning down mosques and such...
I see the car being left as a major clue as well. Another interesting thing is why the FBI did not impound the car. I would think they would want to check every square inch of it for fingerprints, or residue, etc... especially from the area in which they took the plastic bottles.
Perhaps the 2003 Atlas coincides with Hindrichs year off of school and the "missing time" that was reported initially in accounting for Hindrichs activities over the last few years? Why wouldn't they have taken that too to look for evidence of where his road trips have taken him recently?
poundig = pounding
I rarely tune in to CNN, but last night I was channel surfing and decided to click on CNN's Paula Zahn. She was interviewing someone about the NY terrorist threat. When she was done with that she was announcing the next story she'd be covering, which was the bird flu. I couldn't believe it when I heard her say words to the effect that we have a better chance of getting hit by bird flu than we do a terrorist attack! I wish I could find her exact quote. She had that stupid smirk on her face...the one she gets when she's being insulting to the President and the War on Terror, or any other liberal talking point.
That woman ought to be fired!
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0510/07/pzn.01.html
ZAHN: Brian Todd, thanks so much. Appreciate it.
In a moment, I want to talk to you about something that may be a more imminent threat than terrorism. If a killer flu virus hits the U.S., can Washington actually help?
Hope bird flu wasn't spawned by Chinese biological warfare development and that no one deliberately infects nations with sick travellers.
"If you read The Oklahoman articles carefully you will usually pick up a sentence or two in all the spin that keeps leading right back to this was NO depressed suicide bomber set to blow himself up."
Exactly right. The people are on this board have been sharp enough to do just that.
No it is not common for me to see white guys around here wearing this type of beard with no mustache. Only see that on some of the Arab students.
Washington could "help". The question is could they do enough?
It is a genuine epidemic, unlike AIDS which could be stopped through infected people avoiding sex and sharing needles. Children wouldn't be born with AIDS if their parents weren't already infected. I don't blame the children, I blame the selfish parents. Contaminated blood could be controlled by better screening.
Bird flu doesn't require sex or drugs. Just proximity to an infected person.
I think it's disgusting that I am right .. that our own country's media has only one goal - BRING DOWN AMERICA - OF COURSE THAT INCLUDES BUSH.
After the first Gulf War, they settled a lot of Iraqi Republican Guard who had defected or became captured in OKC and within a short time some of these people became very anti-American. This is called the Heartland of the Country and thus they set up shop in the Heartland.
A professor told a friend of my daughter's that there are three active cells in OK -- Norman, OKC, and Tulsa.
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