[MizSterious]

Or maybe it's a genuine spin alert. Some folks who were at the game that night, and who live in Norman, know better than you do whether what is being reported is true or not. If you had spent a little time reading PhiKapMom's (and others) posts on this topic, you might recognize this spin for what it is. Then again, it's much easier to come onto a thread and blast people who DO know what's going on, even when you don't.

[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