University of Oklahoma bombing incident gets more interesting

[RummyTheDummy]

From newsok.com (requires registration)

http://www.newsok.com/article/1633866/?template=home/main

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His father and friends said Hinrichs was not a football fan and would not have attended the game ordinarily. Boren said the FBI was reviewing tapes from inside and around the stadium.

One OU senior, Adam Smith, of Oklahoma City, however, said a stadium guard Saturday night told him “a guy had sprinted off” outside Gate 6 after refusing to let his backpack be searched.

There have been reports Hinrichs had a backpack with him when the bomb went off.

The FBI also is checking a report that Hinrichs tried to purchase ammonium nitrate last week from the Ellison Feed and Seed store in Norman.

The store did not carry any. Ammonium nitrate can be used to make bombs and was a key ingredient in the 1995 Oklahoma City attack.

Hinrichs’ father said the FBI told him the bomb his son had was made of hydrogen peroxide. He said the FBI told him more high-density hydrogen peroxide was found in the apartment.

[MissMarple]

1. This is all too sad.

I often drive by his high school. Colorado has a high rate of teen suicide. For whatever that is worth.

:cry:

[Maat]

2. His poor family.

I know .. that's not what should be occurring to me.

But I grieve whenever I see kids going down an extremist path.

This kid probably thought he was advancing some cause; instead, he wound up killing his family members inside.

I think I'm going to go over 'extremism' and its dangers a little more tomorrow - with my kid.

[kestrel91316]

3. But, but, but I thought the authorities decided within 5 minutes of the

blast that it was "just a suicide", no terrorism here, now run along.

Why are they bothering to investigate, if they already know what happened? :sarcasm:

[RummyTheDummy]

4. Indeed

It seemed odd to me from the beginning that they quickly dismissed this as a suicide. It's a rather unconventional way to commit suicide. Especially an individual suicide not intended to harm others.

My gut instinct says he was in fact trying to gain entry to the stadium.

Here locally they have mentioned he frequented a local mosque. The same local mosque Moussaui (the so called 20th 9-11 hijacker frequented).

That part is basically irrelevant to me. What is relevant is that apparently, the whereabouts of this kid were unknown, even to his family for a full year before he returned to school this fall. Apparently the kid and his family had a rather distant relationship, both literally and figuratively.

[kestrel91316]

5. Just like the DC Sep 24 protests and the tularemia - they INSTANTLY

declared that it had absolutely nothing to do with terrorism, before there could possibly have been any investigation whatsoever.

Go figure.

[RummyTheDummy]

6. And it gets better

Apparently OU honored its National Merit Scholars on the field at halftime. They do this every year. This kid was a National Merit Scholar. Could that have had anything to do with the date he chose?

Like you implied, they're ever so quick to dismiss something, at least to the public. Indeed, I have a feeling the scrutiny that this incident is receiving goes a lot further than the FBI field offices here in Oklahoma but it's unlikely the public will ever know just how far up the chain this has been kicked.

Amazingly, or frankly, not amazingly, the national media has spent almost no time talking about this, much like the tularemia situation last month.