Posted on 10/03/2005 1:06:13 PM PDT by hispanarepublicana
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com Local and federal agents were carting away what was described as a huge cache of explosives from the apartment of the 21-year-old student who blew himself up outside the stadium where 84,000 watched a Sooners football game.
Joel Henry Hinrichs III, 21, a junior from Colorado Springs, Colo., died in the explosion, according to FBI officials.
Investigators believe Hinrichs detonated a bomb about 8 p.m. Saturday, just 100 yards away from the packed football stadium.
Police were overheard telling residents it would take "several trips and could take up to 24 hours" to remove it all, according to the Daily Oklahoman.
A canister trailer used for detonating or transporting potentially explosive material was being used to haul items away.
Officials said Hinrichs' motive for blowing himself up Saturday near the Gaylord Family - Oklahoma Memorial Stadium during the second quarter of OU's game against Kansas State remains under investigation.
OU President David Boren said Hinrichs was a student "who had very, serious personal problems that led to this tragic death."
Because of what happened, Boren said, the FBI had taken over the investigation.
Boren said the student had explosives strapped to his body.
Investigators would not say whether they believe Hinrichs intended to go inside the stadium before the detonation happened.
His roomie was a Paki, eh? The plot thickens.
BTTT
He also lived across the street from the Islamic society of Norman Oklahoma...
Let's review
Bali bombing.....start of Ramadan.....large crowd.....islamic material in the apartment....
Nothing to see here folks.....move along!!
it took the FBI TWO YEARS to declare the LAX incident a terrorist incident!
"I know because my two sons sadly (to me anyway) converted to Islam a few years ago"
Oh jeez.. Now that's horrific.
Why would they do that?!?!
Guess we are getting more company! :)
Our local media is actually talking about having more info but they cannot get people to go "on the record" and so won't report the info.
That picture and finding out his roommate is Pakistani only convinced me even more we were right at the beginning.
The same logic/rationale for commonplace marijuana usage, though illegal in the 60s-80s, seemed to repeat itself with homosexuality in the 90s.
I hope this Islamic suicide thing isn't another variation on the same theme in the early 21st century.
If we had a BS meter going it would be way over the top from what we have been hearing. Honestly believe if we had the Internet like we have today more facts would have come out on the OKC Bombing way early.
This is getting creepier every single day. I hope they post the roommates picture as a BOLO.
I am impressed that channel 5 is putting up a fuss over the lack of confirmation--Terry Watkins was great tonight. Nothing like this happened in 1995--they just dutifully changed their reports as asked.
still, we need some national attention on this story - there is still a media blackout on it.
It is getting creepier. When you remember Nicholas Berg being here on campus before he went to Iraq and would show up at the Islamic Society, it starts to make the hair on the back of my neck stand up.
The national media is busy with other more important stories - Holloway, Katrina and NO, and other stuff. /sarc
I haven't turned on the TV and have been spending all my time on FR instead.
Looks like they have learned to question not take everything said as the blanket truth. Am really impressed with the investigative reporting going on right now because they are not swallowing the spin.
Yes it is, but google news usually carries on its front page any story that is getting wide play in the press, even when it is just breaking.
So the fact that you had to search for it simply proves the point being made here - the MSM is burying this story for reasons unknown.
You were the first person I thought of when I heard rumors of this OU situation. Imagine my surprise that you were so close to being a primary news source! Keep us informed!
I'll watch Gretta at 10 to get the latest facts on this case. The'll report, then I'll decide, hehehe.
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