[SauronOfMordor]

The spin out of OU does not match the facts.

• It is not rational for somebody to make up a huge batch of explosives, and decide "I only need a little to blow myself up with, I'll leave the rest behind in my car and room"
• It is incredibly unusual for somebody to go thru a lot of trouble to commit suicide by explosive
• TATP has a distinctive odor of acetone, according to references I've looked at. A roommate is not going to notice the smell?
• How big a room was he sharing with his roommate? It seems unlikely his roommate would fail to notice

I think the problem might be the first OKC bombing.

If the media starts going on about a bombing in OK, committed by a lilly-white student who had been quietly recruited by Islamic terrorists, people are going to start taking a look at the first OKC bombing. They are going to start taking a hard look at the Iraqis settled in OK by Bush I after the first Gulf War. They are going to look at the possibility that Clinton covered up Islamic involvement in order to smear "right wing militias"

In short, it would open a can of worms that a lot of Dems and a lot of Pubbies would rather stay closed

[LibertyRocks]

"In short, it would open a can of worms that a lot of Dems and a lot of Pubbies would rather stay closed"

I think you're absolutely correct about that. IMHO that would be the most compelling reason (aside from a real undercover op going on currently) that the FBI would have for concealing the information in this particular case...