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"perhaps you can explain why security has been increased at all university and high school sporting events? Suicide prevention? "

Yes, events like this attract yer sports.

"Pakistani roommate claims to have never noticed the hundreds of pounds of explosives stored in the very small apartment they shared"

There wasn't 100s of lbs in there.

" a strong odor"

Acetone is similar to ether in flamability. If the odor was that strong, the pilot lights, or static would have caused the place to light up.

" why was he trying to get his grimy mitts on ammonium nitrate just three days before he blew himself up?"

I told you schitz. In his psychotic delusions he was somehow a jihadi at war with whoever. Parking his ass on the park bench reinforces that, because it indicates the dissonant conflict in his own head prevented him from going any further. crunching the crystals in his backpack ended the struggle with a flash.

Are you trying to put all this "planned" activity into some kind of a plot? All I see here is extreme wackjobbery. The plan looks like it was made by an impetuous psycho. You think the Paki would not at least covered his track if he had anyhting to do with this, or took off?

"one jihadist from the OKC bombing"

McVeigh acted with Nichols and hte AZ creeps. He was not acting with jihadis.

Also, warrants are sealed and no info goes out, because it's an ongoing investigation.

"crunching the crystals in his backpack ended the struggle with a flash."

My impression (and this is ONLY an impression, from talking to one of the cops who was first on-scene)is that the kid was holding the explosive (device or possibly just a ziplock baggie) in his lap. He was "gone from the waist up, with just a little of his spine showing above the waistline." Quote is as best I remember it.

That would also be consistent with the damage to the bench; a recoil-less rifle uses an explosive charge to kick the projectile out the barrel. Backblast goes wherever the breach is pointed. The baggie in his lap would have done much the same thing to his upper body, smacking the back and seat of the bench rather hard, but not necessarily hard enough to break it. (I've heard the seat was intact, the back broken, someone else, like LibertyRocks, may know more.) The "backblast" from this would have been in the direction of the trees and buses and such across the sidewalk (and street) from the bench.

Also, warrants are sealed and no info goes out, because it's an ongoing investigation.

If it's so clearly a suicide, why is there an ongoing investigation? Warrants are only sealed, legitimately that is, to prevent the target from knowing about it beforehand. Obviously that doesn't fit the lone suicide scenario. They may also be sealed in national security situations, which again doesn't fit a lone suicide. Generally the warrants are unsealed after being served, again unless there are other suspects, or national security related information would be compromised by the information in the warrant, but that also doesn't fit a lone suicide. The warrant need only supply the reason a crime is suspected (and it doesn't have to be much), and describe what is expected to be found and/or seized. When the warrant was issued, it's quite plausible that a wider conspiracy was suspected, Boren's statements aside. But once the warrant had been served, and supposedly no links to foreign terrorists were found, I can't imagine what legitimate reason there might be for keeping the warrant sealed. Maybe the report of what was found, but not the warrant itself. Unless of course it contained information about local terrorist connections, but they turned out not to be a factor in this case. But even that would something people really ought to know.