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US to deport 225 illegal Pak residents Tuesday, October 04, 2005 05:17:18 pm WASHINGTON: As many as 225 Pakistanis who were residing illegally in the US were arrested from various cities and will be deported to Pakistan, agencies reported on Tuesday. According to a private TV channel, the 225 deportees will be flown to Islamabad on a special plane within the next 36 hours. Most of the arrested Pakistanis had been residing illegally in the US for the last many months while others had violated immigration laws and were arrested during last two weeks.

Two Norman men face felony charges after allegedly breaking into a tunnel under the University of Oklahoma campus to get into a building on the South Oval. Christopher Thomas Boyce, 24, and James Kent Eldridge, 20, were charged Thursday in Cleveland County District Court with conspiracy to commit burglary and second-degree burglary. According to an affidavit, a witness saw Boyce and Eldridge entering an underground tunnel system by cutting the locks to a manhole cover in the 1100 block of Asp Avenue. Police said the pair then opened a perimeter door and entered Richards Hall, where they removed a "stoppered...

Additional bomb scares have increased safety measures by Scooby Axson October 19, 2005 After the Oct. 1 explosion outside Oklahoma Memorial Stadium and three additional bomb scares on or near university campuses in the following two weeks, OU officials are taking extra safety precautions. OU Department of Public Safety officials said officers will take additional security precautions at Saturday’s game against Baylor University, the first home game since Oct. 1. OU President David L. Boren sent a letter to season ticket holders explaining the stadium’s security measures. “Your safety while on the OU campus will always remain our top priority,”...

If you're heading to OU's home game against Baylor Saturday, get ready for something new. The University will give an evacuation plan to fans heading through the gates. OU President David Boren mailed season ticket holders a letter that tells them to get to the game early, because searches will be going on at all stadium gates. This comes after 21-year-old Joel Hinrichs III killed himself with a home-made bomb outside the stadium on October 1. Investigators say the blast was an isolated incident.

Not the terrorist you were looking for … move along Flash! The FBI did not find something. They didn’t. Now will you go away? This no-shinola news flash was brought to you on the Oct. 5 front page of The Oklahoman following revelations that a guy who was not a suicide bomber appears to have blown himself up on game day at the University of Oklahoma. The case is that of Joel Henry Hinrichs III, a youth described as a brilliant but apparently-you-better-believe-it troubled young man who took what officials described as a hydrogen peroxide bomb, strapped it to his...

Media ignore importance of Muslim ties MICHELLE MALKIN Press accounts have downplayed the disruption of terrorist cells on American soil. Oct. 12 marked the fifth anniversary of the bombing of the USS Cole. Seventeen American sailors were killed in the attack. They were casualties of a war with radical Islamic terror that America hadn't yet declared and which the mainstream media still refuse to acknowledge today. Too many of us were blind in 2000 - unable or unwilling or simply too uninterested to connect such blood-stained dots as al-Qaida's 1993 World Trade Center bombing attack, the 1996 Khobar Tower bombings,...

Sun October 16, 2005 OU student left suicide message By Nolan Clay The Oklahoman NORMAN - The University of Oklahoma student who died in an explosion Oct. 1 left a message on his computer that he was going to quit living, his father said. The FBI read the message to the father Friday, after he came to Oklahoma to clear out his son's university-owned apartment. Joel "Joe" Henry Hinrichs III, an engineering student, died when his bomb went off about 100 yards from the packed football stadium during the second quarter of OU's night game against Kansas State. Hinrichs, 21,...

Mark Tapscott's appearance on CNN definitely raises some interesting points that relate directly on to how the Hinrichs investigation is proceeding and how various officials are portraying the situation. Which brings us to what may be a significant development coming out of the CNN segment. Pat DeMuro (SP?), the former FBI agent who was in the New York studio with Aaron Brown tonight, described an agreement when the FBI was reorganized a few years back that all explosions would be presumed to be terrorist acts until proven otherwise. But in this case the presumption virtually from the outset has been...

Suspicious Package On ECU Campus Oct 14, 2005 Jennifer Coates WNCT-TV9 Police were called to campus around 11:30 this afternoon, near the art building. ECU Police tell Nine on Your Side a construction worker left a bookbag full of copper pipes near a construction site. The Cherry Point Bomb Squad was called in. They detonated the six pipes. Four buildings were evacuated during the scare.

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ARLINGTON, Va. - The man with the video camera might take the subway, hoping that police who check passengers' bags won't notice that this particular piece of electronics actually is rigged with explosives. The second bomber might be lurking outside the nearest subway station, waiting for police and paramedics to respond to the underground disaster - and waiting for his chance to rush in and make it even worse. In the new age of the suicide bomber, hypothetical scenarios abound. When officials on Thursday disclosed a potential threat to the New York City transit system, possibly featuring baby strollers ready...

Bad timing blamed for group's detainment By Randy Ellis and Judy Gibbs RobinsonThe Oklahoman NORMAN - A University of Oklahoma instructor from Egypt said he and others of foreign descent were handcuffed at gunpoint and questioned after the OU bomb blast Oct. 1, but added he is not bitter. "Not at all. I understand. They explained. But if they keep coming back -- that's something else," Hossam Barakat said. "Because I'm not guilty in any way." Barakat, 37, blames unfortunate timing. The roommate of the student killed by the explosion just happened to wander into an apartment where he...

Student's Suicide Sets Off Explosion Of Theories by Blogs By RYAN CHITTUM and JOE HAGAN Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL October 13, 2005; Page B1 WHEN A JUNIOR at the University of Oklahoma blew himself up 100 yards away from a packed football stadium on Oct. 1, the 85,000 fans inside remained calm despite the loud explosion. But the calm has given way to anxiety, as the college town of Norman, Okla., has struggled to separate fact from fiction in the apparent suicide of Joel Henry Hinrichs III. Several bloggers have jumped to try to connect the dots...

OUR VIEW: 10/13 October 13, 2005 The FBI broke its silence Wednesday and announced, among other things, that a press conference summarizing their investigation is on the way. As of now, they are “more and more convinced” that Joel Hinrichs was acting alone when he blew himself up on the South Oval Oct. 1. They have found no connection between Hinrichs and any terrorist organization, and dispelled rumors that Jihadist materials were found in Hinrichs’ apartment. Still, we know that some people will put a lot of effort into contradicting the FBI’s analysis, facts be damned. But U.S. Rep. Tom...

A Georgia Tech student confessed to placing three explosive devices between two dorms and will be charged in the case, authorities said during a Tuesday afternoon news conference. The student, 18-year-old freshman engineering major Theodore Hollot, has been suspended from the school pending a school disciplinary review, according to Georgia Tech Assistant Vice President Amelia Gambino. Police will be charging Hollot with misdemeanor reckless conduct, and possession of a destructive device, which is a felony under Georgia law. Georgia Tech Police investigators took Hollot in for questioning early Tuesday morning, according to an Atlanta police spokeswoman. During the course of...

Imagine a man with a bomb strapped to his body making his way into a packed football stadium, reaching his seat and blowing himself up. There would be a heavy death toll in what would be the first successful terrorist act on U.S. soil since 9-11. Jolting us back to memories of the Oklahoma City bombing, this would obviously be a massive headline in our ongoing war on terror. One would think attention would be heightened even further if such a story were to occur again in Oklahoma. Well, there's reason to believe it nearly happened, and it was indeed...

Nothing To See Here - Move Along By Michelle Malkin October 12, 2005 Oct. 12 marks the fifth anniversary of the bombing of the USS Cole. Seventeen American sailors were murdered in the attack. They were casualties of a war with radical Islamic terror that America hadn't yet declared and which the mainstream media still refuses to acknowledge today. Too many of us were blind in 2000 -- unable or unwilling or simply too uninterested to connect such blood-stained dots as al Qaeda's 1993 World Trade Center bombing attack, the 1996 Khobar Tower bombings, the 1998 African embassy bombings, and...

LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. -- Gwinnett County police are investigating a stolen charter jet that was located Monday afternoon at Briscoe Airfield in suburban Atlanta. Police say the 1995 twin-engine Cessna Citation 7 -- valued at $7 million -- was in St. Augustine, Fla., awaiting its next next charter. The pilot reported the plane missing to the St. Johns County Sheriff's Office at 11:30 a.m. Monday. The 10-passenger executive jet showed up at Briscoe Airfield between 9:30 p.m. Saturday and 6:30 a.m. Sunday. Airport authorities reported it was there after getting getting the bulletin about the missing plane. Whoever stole the jet...

en days have passed since a 21-year-old University of Oklahoma engineering student was killed when a bomb he was carrying exploded 100 yards from the stadium where Oklahoma and Kansas State were playing football before a crowd of 84,000 – and there are still more questions than answers to exactly What? and Why? As The Oklahoman said in its October 9 edition, the explosion “left Oklahomans wondering whether it was an individual suicide or if it was intended to be an act of terrorism targeting football fans October 1.” There is evidence the student, Joel Hinrichs III of Colorado, was...

Last Modified: 10/11/2005 1:32:42 PM A person identified as a witness to the placement of three explosives at Georgia Tech is now being called a suspect in the case, according to a spokeswoman for the Atlanta Police Department. Georgia Tech Police investigators took the so-called witness in for questioning early Tuesday morning, the spokeswoman said. During the course of their interview, they changed their characterization from witness to suspect. Three explosive devices were found in a courtyard between two Georgia Tech dormitories on the East Campus Monday morning. One of the devices exploded, injuring the grounds worker who found them...