Nothing like that in local reports.
Initial reaction from his family here >>>
http://www.gazette.com/display.php?id=1310934&secid=1
As if figuring that out is rocket science.
Posted by Mark Tapscott on October 3, 2005 - 15:42.
University of Oklahoma President David Boren seems determined to have everybody believe Joel Henry Hinrichs III was merely a disturbed young man who decided to commit suicide by blowing himself up within 100 yards of a stadium containing 84,000 screaming fans of Sooner football.
Sorry, I don't buy it, at least not yet. Here's why: First, The Daily Oklahoman is reporting authorities found a large cache of bomb-making materials in Hinrichs' apartment. The cache is so big that the Oklahoman quoted one of the officials on the scene as estimating a full 24 hours would be required to cart away all of the material.
Suicide victims don't normally accumulate a large amount of bomb-making material in their homes. People intent on blowing up other people do.
Second, the proximity to the stadium suggests Hinrichs' target was the crowd, perhaps as people were leaving the game. But being an OU student, he presumably would have access to the student seating section and could have gone from that area to anywhere else in the crowd he chose.
What better place to detonate a bomb guaranteed to both kill and maim many, as well as incite terror and possibly a stampede that would kill and injure more people? My guess is Hinrichs was kept from reaching his target by a premature detonation. Add the proximty of the Micro-Biology building and you may have the potential for a kind of bio-bomb that could have guaranteed utter chaos in and around the stadium.
Third, why was Boren sufficiently familiar with Hinrichs to so quickly issue an opinion about his motive in the bombing? When he resigned in November 1994 as a senator, Boren was chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. He left the Senate just as the Democrats lost their majority in the GOP sweep of 1994.
Add to his Senate years the presence of an active and long-established Muslim student presence on the OU campus stemming from the school's excellent Petroleum Engineering program, and it stands to reason that Boren has been privy to intelligence briefing as head of the school. Is that how he knew of Hinrichs?
Fourth, Hinrichs appears to have a fresh beard, which is characteristic of new Muslim male converts. His father told The Oklahoman his son was a quiet, intellectual type, but he had no idea what might have incited him to take his own life. We can only assume the father also didn't know of the bomb-making material in his son's apartment. Perhaps we are dealing with a recent or a secret convert?
Finally, if Hinrichs was just a disturbed guy who decided to kill himself with a bomb 100 yards from a crowd of 84,000 people instead of simply putting a bullet through his temple, slashing his wrists or some other traditional way of doing away with oneself, why is the FBI and the Joint Terrorism Task Force now the lead agency in the investigation?
I can't wait to find out all the facts of this story. Just hope the MSM doesn't try to bury it because it may look bad for their new best friends, the Islamists.
He may not have intended to kill himself, radio waves could have set off his devise before he could get it into place
Saturday? I haven't seen ANYTHING about this in my local paper yet.
lol we posted this story, originally from 1:00 am, at exactly the same time over 15 hours later. Mine was pulled!
The Mods always liked you better anyway. "why can't you be more like hispanarepublicana" they would say. No wonder I have a complex!
Of course, maybe he simply couldn't face the possibility of losing to Texas next week.
Regardless, we are very fortunate that he prematurely detonated. Could have killed a lot of people.
The silence on the national news front is more deafening than the explosion.
Instead of headlines, a few local outlets are exclusively covering a story that is clearly of tremendous national interest.
If I ever doubted there was some sort of nationwide control over media coverage, those doubts have vanished in light of what I am witnessing in this case.
Stunning. Absolutely stunning.
Freepmail
* Do not pluck grey hairs [dyeing is recommended]
* Get rid of those braid extensions and hair pieces!
* Clip the moustache and nails, etc, within 40 days
* Women should not put all her hair up on the top of her haid like a camel hump. She may put it up at home as long as some hair lays on her neck still, but not when leaving the house in hijab where the hump can be seen to be under the hijab and drawing attention to her hair.
* While doing salah [prayers], a man should not have his hair braided or pulled back in a knot
* Comb your hair from the right side first
* Destroy your clipped nails and hair after cutting it by collecting it and burying it. It is not a sin if you don't destroy your hair, but it is preferable.
* A woman should not have a hairstyle that resembles a man's hairstyle.
* Do not imitate the hair styles or colors of the Jews and Christians; do the opposite!
He was probably going to shoot it inside the stadium but forgot to buy a ticket.
Sheep hate this.
As posted on an OU fan site I subscribe to. I can't verify the accuracy but it is very interesting.
Saw this linked on another thread. From timebomb, a resident of Norman who has info from a friend inside the LE says that Hinrichs had a ME roommate -- maybe it's a clue, maybe not.
Just posting the link, it's post 222 at
http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showthread.php?t=170283&page=6&pp=40
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!!
Lurkers - the times they are a changin (for the better). People all over the world join in...
Rrrrrrrrrrrriiighttttttttt....;^/
So, according to President Boren, associating with foreign religious fanatics and allowing oneself to become their human bomb is a "serious personal problem." Hmmmmmmmm.