Posted by DC Bound to meyer
On News/Activism 10/02/2005 6:17:24 PM PDT · 3,126 of 3,355
My pet theory: Joel is a normal kid. Every young man has emotional instability, hormones, etc. Most young men in Colorado or Oklahoma are familiar with firearms. No big deal. He didn't make a bomb.
Joel was seen sitting on a bench prior to the explosion. This doesn't sound like a guy preparing to kill himself.
All the photos on the frat website show normal looking guys. No arabs.
The bomb exploded at a time the area would have normally been filled with people. Halftime was late.
After the explosion, two ME men were seen running from the scene.
The area is known to be a hotbed of radical Islam. Other known terrorists have been known to have been there in the past.
Boiled down, Joel is a victim of a bomb that went off too early that was left in place by terrorists.
Just speculating, and only posting it because no one else has said it yet, that I've seen.
Add to that the timing was the same as Bali. Who knows, though. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
We'll probably never know the whole story just like we don't know about the bombing of the Murrah Building. It sure is possible that the kid just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Well, my son is a freshman, and this was the first game I've been to, so I could not say for sure whether this is a congregation spot at halftime, but from what I could see, even in normal circumstances, it would be kind of a pain to leave the game during halftime and return for the second half; and if you did, I am not sure why you would go to this courtyard, rather than one of the many beer tents and restaurants nearby.
If I were planning to blow up a crowd at haltime, I would go near a gate and toss the backpack through the fence, not plant it in a random spot on campus and hope crowds would show up. Especially with a timer, sonce no football games run on a schedule.
So I'll vote against the theory. From what I saw on the ground, it doesn't make sense.