Someone asked for a pic.
Posted on 10/12/2005 4:45:14 AM PDT by texianyankee
Imagine a man with a bomb strapped to his body making his way into a packed football stadium, reaching his seat and blowing himself up. There would be a heavy death toll in what would be the first successful terrorist act on U.S. soil since 9-11.
Jolting us back to memories of the Oklahoma City bombing, this would obviously be a massive headline in our ongoing war on terror. One would think attention would be heightened even further if such a story were to occur again in Oklahoma.
Well, there's reason to believe it nearly happened, and it was indeed in Oklahoma, making the paltry coverage of the story unfathomable.
On Oct. 1, as the Oklahoma Sooners hosted Kansas State in front of 84,000 fans, University of Oklahoma student Joel Hinrichs III blew himself up outside the stadium.
There is evidence that he sought to enter the game and was turned away by security after refusing to allow his backpack to be searched. Some minutes later, that backpack, containing the chosen explosive of shoe bomber Richard Reid and the London subway bombers, exploded, killing Mr. Hinrichs as he sat on a bench.
There have been some dutiful print and broadcast accounts of this event, all leaning heavily on the favored establishment take – that this was a troubled young man who sought only to kill himself, simply doing so in an offbeat way.
Oh, really?
Well, what if the young man had a Pakistani roommate? What if he had been spending time at the Islamic Center of Norman, Okla., once frequented by "20th hijacker" Zacarias Moussaoui? What if the warrant used in the search of the bomber's apartment had been sealed by federal authorities?
What if explosives had been found in that apartment? What if the young man had tried to purchase ammonium nitrate, the chosen explosive of Tim McVeigh, at a Norman feed store days earlier?
That's a lot of what ifs, and they range from the confirmed to the unconfirmed. But the parts we do know – the Pakistani roommate, the attempted fertilizer purchase, the veil of secrecy around the investigation – should be enough to cast doubt on the simplistic "troubled young man" theory favored by, among others, OU's nervous president, David Boren.
Mr. Hinrichs' father told me his son was not the type to join radical causes and would not want to hurt anyone. But his son's chosen method – blowing himself up in a public place – would seem to cast doubt on his concern for his fellow man.
As for the terrorist angle, Mr. Hinrichs is now the subject of understandably intense scrutiny, virtually none of it from the mainstream media. You might think the story fizzled because there was, in fact, no death beyond the bomber. True enough, but I'd suggest that if a raid revealed some radical plan to bomb an abortion clinic anywhere in America, the suspects would be household names by nightfall without a single fuse lit.
Something about the nature of this event has swallowed almost whole the normal curiosity one would expect from the usual sources.
Is it political, because acknowledging a terror threat on our soil might bolster President Bush's war logic? Is it economic, out of fear of scaring people away from football games? Is it geographic snobbery because it didn't happen on either coast? Or is it a PC fear of seeming to lunge toward a jihadist angle?
Whatever the reason, hunting for details of this shocking story puts you in some offbeat company.
Jayna Davis is a writer who has spent years documenting what she asserts is an Islamic connection to the Oklahoma City bombing. She has a fan in Douglas Hagmann, director of an outfit called the Northeastern Intelligence Network, whose Web site (homelandsecurityus.com) has a conspiracy geek vibe that might spark scoffing.
But the fact of the matter is that these people are breaking fresh news on this story that only later winds up in more conventional news outlets.
I'm not calling for a leap to the conclusion that Mr. Hinrichs was another in a series of Caucasians pressed into service by terror cells for their undercover value. But it seems equally unwise to shrug dismissively at the possibility.
Hinrich's wallet was in his pants, with his ID. That's how they knew right away who he was.
The rest of him, above the waist, was blown to bits and splattered all over the busses in the parking lot.
That is bull about him "not wanting to hurt anyone else". (What his father said). A busdriver was a few feet away from him when the bomb went off. Hinrichs knew this because the driver spoke to him seconds before the explosion.
I disagree with you and here is why I think that Hussain al Hussaini is John Doe #2 (now there may be other John Doe's but I am talking about THE John Doe #2)
(1) Many witnesses in Oklahoma City were positive of their identification of him.
(2) He was in Oklahoma (Not one witness puts Jose Padilla in Oklahoma City at the time of the Murrah bombing)
(3) Jayna Davis has not written about the security cameras, but from the information I know about there is an extremely strong possibility that the side profile of John Doe #2 (not the front sketch) was taken off a security camera. That is why it was in profile - maybe when he pulled up in the Ryder truck when the camera would catch it. I have an acetate copy of the side sketch of John Doe #2 that the authorities put out and a photo of Hussain and there is an ABSOLUTE PERFECT match, which could be explained if it were taken off of a security camera. In a Freedom of Information court case, the government admits to tapes off of security cameras that have not been made public.
(4) Jayna Davis has a lot of information in her book about the confusion that led to the first sketch coming out on John Doe #2. I believe that her investigation shows that the first sketch (frontal view) was based on information provided by witnesses at Elliott's Body Shop. Their John Doe could have even been a different person than the one in Oklahoma City. Read her chapter called Dead Ringer. If you pull up the original arrest warrant for John Doe #2, the description is different from the description from Elliott's Body Shop's John Doe. The FBI may have issued this warrant from the security camera and witness statements in Oklahoma City. Also, it wouldn't necessarily have been the same John Doe as was in Elliott's. I got a copy of it early in the investigation and had a difficult time getting it. The people in records first denied it even existed. It may not be available now. The description fits Hussain.
Thanks for the ping, indcons.
>>If only one plane were hijacked and one tower hit on that day I
Remember Flight 587?
You're welcome, Justanobody. How are you doing?
How's it with you?
Pretty good....was out of town and returned on Monday night. Have been following and participating in the heated Miers' threads in addition to tracking the Norman bombing PC cover-up. I agree....lots of stuff going on :)
Absolutely, SG. Unfortunately not too many others do.
About the most obvious coverup imaginable.
There is no offense taken.
Ever since I tried to teach myself Spanish by reading it and looking up the meanings of words, I find my spelling has gone kaput. I now tend to spell phonetically. :-)
Thank you very much for the ping. It's a good editorial that will raise questions in the minds of the readers for sure. That's what I'm looking for at this point. To raise the questions, and keep pressure on the authorities to check out ALL possible angles no matter how "un-PC" they might be...
I must admit I haven't read Jayna's book. I am going to see if I can find a copy of it and read it, because I remember on one of the early threads after Jayna came out with the book a Freeper posted those pictures and a lot of us still could not see the resemblance. Maybe if I read her explanation why it is Husanni I will be more convinced.
What do you make of this?
http://globalresearch.ca.myforums.net/viewtopic.php?p=11044
Someone asked for a pic.
Actually, I saw the pictures aired on local teevee of the fellow just after the bombing. I might be mistaken, but they might have been on one of Jayna Davis's newscasts, before the NYT bought the teevee station and let her go. In those, he looked exactly like JDII.
How did they know so soon who his roommate was, and where he was that evening so they could arrest him? Doesn't that strike you as odd? Wouldn't that normally take hours, not minutes? And, bear in mind, they still haven't positively id'ed him--they're waiting on dna tests.
FBI story and that of our local officials are worlds apart. Pardon me if I take the side of our local officials over the side of the FBI. :)
The media did not miss it. They are ignoring it. They only run with anything that will embarrish President Bush.
I agree, the article headline should be:
Media is ignoring a story and might be missing a terrorist.
Thanks for the ping indcons.
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