Bomb Blast at University of Oklahoma (Breaking on Fox) - suicide bomber at OU

Fox News/NewsOK.com ^ | oct. 1, 2005

[JustaCowgirl]

That's why I posted it, prairiebreeze. I do wonder if this is a next-morning rewrite, editing that out. However, I suspect the World report was prepared in part from local reporters who were there at the game. No way to know where that piece of information originated and how verified it is.

I know a number of people who were there at the game. I intend to ask them Monday morning if they heard a second explosion. I think a second device would have been detonated on-site, but am not sure.

[tacticalogic]

I honestly don't know of any pipe bomb that would shake a college football stadium.

Not a whole stadium, but I'll bet you could rattle some bleachers pretty good.

[JustaCowgirl]

He might have intended to set them both off at once, and one of them malfunctioned.

Yes, there are any number of possibilities. It depends partly on where the second device was located (assuming there was one). We may never know that.

[MikefromOhio]

it doesn't appear that this is the case...

let's not get ahead of ourselves here....the US grows enough home grown nuts to not have to immediately blame foreign ones.....

[Kozak]

Tragedy in Norman
Apparent suicide bomb kills one outside OU stadium

Uh NOT! It's not a "tragedy" when one of these morons kills only himself in his delusions. It COULD have been tragic, but it was anything but.

[dmw]

Right! What's so tragic about 72 virgins being serviced right now!? ;) One less mooslum for us to worry about!

[Rte66]

One of the other posters on another OU fan forum (not the one where I post) said they heard the 2nd detonation, that it was muffled, but felt the same. He said it was "south of the South Oval" and heard it while he was walking to his car.

[dmw]

KFOR News in OKC just reported that the police are now saying that there was not a second device and that it was something they did as a precaution. Maybe it will be on their website for a link soon.

[BlackRain]

Officials say the bomb detonated 100 yards west of the stadium near the George Lynn Cross Hall, Botany-Microbiology Building. Explosive experts brought in bomb dogs and located a second device, which was later safely detonated.

Some 84,000 fans were not allowed to leave the game until late in the 4th quarter, after another sweep of the building. The bomb squad also swept the stadium before the game began and found no explosives inside. No one inside the stadium was injured.

Despite the circumstances, the fans remained calm. "It sounded like two explosions very close together," stated one person who heard the blast. "The seats rattled a little bit. We didn't know anything until the game was over."

http://www.kfor.com/Global/story.asp?S=3925606

[SE Mom]

Has he heard anything about the identity of the bomber?

[jimbo123]

Exactly. It looks like DHS have agreed not to use the word BOMB in the case of suicide bombings.

Just a reference to an explosion and a "suicide by an individual." But not using the word bomb.

Funny how they haven't put out any statment on the identity of the bomber yet. If it wasn't a muslim, you'd think they'd rush out that information as soon as possible to quell speculation.

[Rte66]

KFOR-TV supposedly also *showed* a helicopter shot of the non-existent second device *being* detonated last night.

[dmw]

Nothing reported about that at all.

[Yellow Rose of Texas]

Read the article at the post 784.

[dmw]

True, I saw that earlier this morning. Something was blown up--what it was has not been reported yet.

[tzedek]

Like this?

OK suicide bomber, time = "which occurred shortly before 8 p.m."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9557879/

Bali suicide bombers, time = "Police say the three blasts happened almost simultaneously just before 2000 local time (1200GMT) on Saturday."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4301630.stm

Also coordinated with the moon.

For Ramadan moon, visit this web site on Monday, October 3, after 8:00 PM, Pacific Standard Time .............
http://moonsighting.com/

[DugwayDuke]

"Not a whole stadium, but I'll bet you could rattle some bleachers pretty good."

Consider the fact that the OU stadium does not have 'bleachers'. The stadium is poured concrete. Any explosion that rattled the bleachers from 100 yards away would be rather large and would have produced large scale damage in the near vicinity.

[SE Mom]

That is the most intriguing part to me at this stage- no mention of the person who did this.

As to the second bomb/not bomb that could easily be an example of first reports being inaccurate- it actually could be the squad doing a precautionary detonation of a back-pack or whatever. Now- if there really was another device and they're covering- that's really disturbing. Hard to know at this point.

[JustaCowgirl]

One of the other posters on another OU fan forum (not the one where I post) said they heard the 2nd detonation, that it was muffled, but felt the same. He said it was "south of the South Oval" and heard it while he was walking to his car.

If so, then the second device was detonated well after the event, because the first happened in the 2nd quarter, I believe(?).

If it happened, then they're going to have a hard time suppressing what many, many thousands of people must have heard. On the other hand, maybe atttendees would have just thought it was Rufneks' celebrations or something I suppose.

Being a Cowboy fan, I can report that in Stillwater we're having the opposite problem -- a complete lack of explosiveness. ;-)