Posted on 10/10/2005 5:41:50 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
Has there been more happening at the University of Oklahoma than hazing and all-nighters? The blogosphere, led by Michelle Malkin, has been chronicling the suspicious explosion at the University of Oklahoma just over a week ago, and wondering why the big media doesnt appear interested.
According to most reports, Joel Hinrichs III was a young man with a history of depression who used a homemade explosive device to commit suicide just 100 yards or so from the schools football stadium, which was filled with over 80,000 people at the time. Officials were quick to call the incident a suicide, but rumors and reports of Hinrichs attempts to buy large quantities of ammonium nitrate and ties to the Muslim community have raised a lot of questions and the answers thus far are not forthcoming.
The Oklahoma Daily, OUs independent campus paper, lays blame on the FBI today for the confusion:
Remember, the FBI has commandeered this investigation. In doing so and by not telling anyone anything, they are only allowing the events of Oct. 2 to be misinterpreted over and over by people who are firm in believing something that is false and terribly dangerous.
For example, unsubstantiated claims that Hinrichs had been frequenting the Norman mosque have managed to seep onto television news broadcasts even though everyone we have contacted at the mosque says Hinrichs was never seen there.
So who is lying? Inherently, people should perceive the unfounded news broadcasts as the liars, but that doesnt always happen. And even if only one person sees and believes such a report there or online, word of mouth can transmit that truth to hundreds or thousands within a matter of days.
Which is why it is undeniably the duty of the FBI to break its unctuous vow of silence and talk to somebody. The longer the feds delay in doing so, the more they become equally responsible for misinformed social reactions as the hacks who started these rumors in the first place. Many, Malkin included, have wondered where the MSM is on this story. As the Oklahoma Daily editorial notes, local television has covered it and a quick Google search turns up (sometimes conflicting) reports in local and regional newspapers but no major media outlets appear to have picked up the story yet. We asked CBS News national editor Bill Felling, who told us the network is looking into the story. Lets hope so, its one worth airing, whatever the facts are.
I've got links to some of her eyewitness reports from Oct. 1 in the summary at my blog. Check out post #41 for the link. She has done an incredible job for sure.
Thanks for the ping! (o:
Indcons... here's another article for the list. (o:
See post #44 - duplicate paragraphs in this blog and the OK Daily editorial from today.
My apologies, I'm trying to respond too quickly to my pings. This blog writer lifted the stuff on purpose and it is a quoted excerpt - not his writing.
"CROM, is 'unwarranted' or 'unnecessary' too hard to use or is somebody from your college lit class visiting?"
I think they meant onerous, myself.
Continue looking, but the gist of it is that only some gates have cameras, and other than the "donor" gates, those point away from the gates and to the ticket windows, IOW they are there for theft prevention, not physical security. She also reports new cameras going up after the fact. So, it could be true that no video camera caught anyone running away after refusing a backpack search, but the cameras, those that exist all, are not positioned to have caught something going on at the turnstiles (or whatever arrangement they have for taking/checking tickets at the gates).
BTW, she also made a recon pass by the Mosque and the apartment complex where Joel lived, verifying that the old blue Lincoln Town Car was still there as of yesterday, over a week after the event.
Meanwhile here are a couple of her posts on the subject:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1500193/posts?page=33#33
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1499412/posts?page=98#98
Also, the kid's apartment was loaded with explosives and his Lincoln Town Car had over 400 pounds of bomb making stuff in the car. His roommate was from Pakistan and is now no where to be found.
Just these FACTS seem enough for the MSM to go National with a story, and no one is even talking about putting any "dots" together as far as three know college campuses in the USA having devices explode!
I guess I'm Stuck on Stupid and I'm not even a Democrat!
Rewritten correctly:
"The blogosphere, led by PhiKapMom, has been chronicling the suspicious explosion at the University of Oklahoma...
Oh, how algore must detest having invented it, eh?
Maybe he'll invent a time machine too and go back and prevent his past self from inventing the internet.
Norman's role in Islamist terrorism goes further back than the OKC bombing in '95. It all starts in '91, right after the Gulf War, when thousands of Iraqi Republican Guards who stood down were given asylum by the US and resettled in and around OKC because Saddam would kill them if they stayed in Iraq. Regrettably, the resettled RG were nothing more than a trojan horse, enemy agents transplanted into our heartland and still working for Saddam while pretending to be defectors.
The Gulf War never ended. We signed a cease-fire and kept our end of the bargain, but Saddam continued hostilities throughout the 90's in the only way he could -- through terrorism. And he linked with Al Qaeda to do it, each one fighting on a different front but with much cross-pollination centered in Norman. So what has happened since '91?
1) WTC '93, masterminded by Iraqi agent Ramzi Yousef
2) OKC '95, by Tim McVeigh and Terry Nichols, but aided by Iraqi agents
3) TWA 800, probably by Al Qaeda
4) Embassies in Africa, by Al Qaeda
5) U.S.S. Cole, by Al Qaeda
6) 9/11, by Al Qaeda, but executed in a manner remarkably similar to Yousef's Project Bojinka to finish what Yousef started back in '93.
For twelve years, we sat and waited for the UN to do its inspections while Saddam continued fighting and Al Qaeda joined the battle. And Klintoon fiddled through it all, while the sheeple failed to connect the dots right in front of their faces.
When GW started the Iraq War in 2003, he was simply resuming hostilities on our side and doing what Klintoon should have done but avoided like the plague. The Iraq War isn't a new war. It isn't even Gulf War Part Two. It is a resumption of the Gulf War after twelve years of cease-fire constantly violated by Saddam with both weapons inspections shenanigans and terrorist actions. Saddam is now out of the war, but Al Qaeda continues it. It needs to be finished, no matter what it takes, no matter how long.
Some links:
http://www.jaynadavis.com/
http://www.infowars.com/transcript_schippers.html
http://www.stoptheftaa.org/artman/publish/article_23.shtml
http://www.jaynadavis.com/story090502-wsj1.html
http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/index.jsp?section=static&page=jaynadavis
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=22122
http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/12/afa/242003c.asp
http://www.akdart.com/okc.html
I am outraged!
The Suits at CBS are beginning to see something here.
PS, as an aside; "Inherently, people should perceive the unfounded news broadcasts as the liars"
Paging Mr. Rather, Mr. Dan Rather. Please pickup the white courtesy phone.
Mr. Rather, please see above comment from some smart college reporters. You could use the lesson.
Only when and if a story involves the undermining of the White House, will the national media make hay with it. But, since this involves national security, all they want to do is stick their collective heads in the sand and completely ignore it.
Yep.
Islamic Concept of Al-Taqiyah to infiltrate and destroy kafir countries
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