The OU Bomber: Not All Is As It Seems To Be
On 1 October, 2005, a student at OU detonated himself just outside of the packed campus football stadium. Michelle Malkin was one of the first bloggers to jump on this story. Mark Tapscott has been on top of the story from the word go. And today Capt. Ed Morrissey also joined the calvacade. What cavalcade, do you ask? Simple. The FBI screwed up, and both they and local law enforcement are still trying to spin this as something other than what it was. The following comes from The Daily Oklahoman. (You must register to read this completely; it is free.)
A Norman police bomb expert said Tuesday he does not believe University of Oklahoma student Joel Henry Hinrichs III committed suicide by blowing himself up outside a packed football stadium.
"I believe he accidentally blew himself up," Sgt. George Mauldin said.
Mauldin said Hinrichs, 21, an engineering student, had two to three pounds of triacetone triperoxide, commonly known as TATP, in a backpack in his lap when it exploded Oct. 1.
When asked if he believed Hinrichs meant to enter the stadium with the explosives, Mauldin replied, "I don't believe he intended for an explosion to occur at that spot (on the park bench)."
"Some of us will forever wonder what he (Hinrichs) was doing at that time, at that place," Police Chief Phil Cotten said.
Hinrichs was sitting on a park bench 173 yards from the OU stadium during the second quarter of OU's night game against Kansas State when the TATP inside his backpack detonated.
"Someone saw him fiddling with it (the backpack) shortly before the explosion occurred. I think he got cocky, and it went off," Mauldin said.
OK, so we have their story. But Capt. Ed picked up this one that sheds a new light on the story.
The FBI reported in November that 0.4 pound of TATP was found inside Hinrichs' apartment. TATP is the most unstable explosive known and is "the explosive of choice" in the Middle East, Mauldin said. "It is so volatile, even a small amount on the tip of a finger will explode if it comes within 8 inches of a match," Mauldin said.
Investigators also found a quantity of acetone and hydrogen, components necessary for manufacturing TATP, inside the student's apartment. ...
Officers also removed "a lot" of military rounds, many of them live, and pieces of metal from the student's apartment, Mauldin said.
Metal fragments often are added to explosives to make them more deadly, he said.
The explosives Hinrichs had outside the stadium were pure, with no fragmentation added, Mauldin said.
However, he said, the student kept careful notes of experimentation with explosives in the weeks leading up to the Oct. 1 blast.
Now, a depressed student decides to kill himself. At first, it looked as though he wanted to commit suicide publicly, with no harm intended for anyone else. However, the revelation of what was found in his apartment, including his extensive notes on fragmentation bombs, leads many others to conclude that this was something other than a simple suicide. I tend to agree with this. It was clear that it was incompetance that led to his "early" demise. Based one what is here, one can reasonably assume that he was not his only target. He went to the stadium for reasons other than simply making his own death public.
I believe the FBI bungled this investigation because all of the evidence compiled by Tapscott and Michelle point to ulterior motives. Flopping Aces is also involved in this story, and according to Tapscott, he has been on top of this story from the beginning.
Publius II
ADDENDUM:
I just picked this up from John at PowerLine.
The FBI has reported that it found no evidence of links between Hinrichs and terrorist groups. Last fall, there were reports that Islamist literature was found in Hinrichs's apartment, but today's article says nothing about that.
It has always seemed pretty clear to me that Hinrichs was up to more than suicide. He tried to buy a large quantity of ammonium nitrate fertilizer from a local store, but the proprietor turned him down because "something didn't feel right." Unless Hinrichs was gardening on a really, really big scale, he wanted to create a fertilizer bomb, an extremely unlikely method of committing suicide.
None of which means, of course, that Hinrichs was a would-be Islamic terrorist. But the eagerness, last fall, of the authorities and most of the media to close the book on the incident with the implausible claim that he was nothing but a suicide victim doesn't inspire confidence in their eagerness to get to the bottom of the story.
That's the point here, folks. Something positively reeks in Denmark (or in this case Oklahoma), and it seems that it's being swept under the carpet. The authorities don't want to fully invesitgate this incident, it seems, as it appears. It appears to me to be a possible act of domestic terrorism. We'll never really know what Hinrichs was thinking when he pulled off this little stunt, but based on the bomb, the materials for the bomb, the ammunition found in his apartment, the Islamic literature, and the fragmentation experimentation it sure looks like he was planning an attack of sorts on the university's campus.
Answers are needed in this, and pressure needs to be applied to get to the bottom of this. We can't just turn a blind eye to this situation. We live in a post 9/11 world where our enemy wants to hurt us as much as possible. While Hinrichs may not have been a person associated with al Qaeda, it's clear that enough suspicion dictates that the investigation should be deeper than what it is right now.
Publius II (Updated at 8:51 p.m., AZ Time)
On 1 October, 2005, a student at OU detonated himself just outside of the packed campus football stadium. Michelle Malkin was one of the first bloggers to jump on this story. Mark Tapscott has been on top of the story from the word go. And today Capt. Ed Morrissey also joined the calvacade. What cavalcade, do you ask? Simple. The FBI screwed up, and both they and local law enforcement are still trying to spin this as something other than what it was. The following comes from The Daily Oklahoman. (You must register to read this completely; it is free.)
A Norman police bomb expert said Tuesday he does not believe University of Oklahoma student Joel Henry Hinrichs III committed suicide by blowing himself up outside a packed football stadium.
"I believe he accidentally blew himself up," Sgt. George Mauldin said.
Mauldin said Hinrichs, 21, an engineering student, had two to three pounds of triacetone triperoxide, commonly known as TATP, in a backpack in his lap when it exploded Oct. 1.
When asked if he believed Hinrichs meant to enter the stadium with the explosives, Mauldin replied, "I don't believe he intended for an explosion to occur at that spot (on the park bench)."
"Some of us will forever wonder what he (Hinrichs) was doing at that time, at that place," Police Chief Phil Cotten said.
Hinrichs was sitting on a park bench 173 yards from the OU stadium during the second quarter of OU's night game against Kansas State when the TATP inside his backpack detonated.
"Someone saw him fiddling with it (the backpack) shortly before the explosion occurred. I think he got cocky, and it went off," Mauldin said.
OK, so we have their story. But Capt. Ed picked up this one that sheds a new light on the story.
The FBI reported in November that 0.4 pound of TATP was found inside Hinrichs' apartment. TATP is the most unstable explosive known and is "the explosive of choice" in the Middle East, Mauldin said. "It is so volatile, even a small amount on the tip of a finger will explode if it comes within 8 inches of a match," Mauldin said.
Investigators also found a quantity of acetone and hydrogen, components necessary for manufacturing TATP, inside the student's apartment. ...
Officers also removed "a lot" of military rounds, many of them live, and pieces of metal from the student's apartment, Mauldin said.
Metal fragments often are added to explosives to make them more deadly, he said.
The explosives Hinrichs had outside the stadium were pure, with no fragmentation added, Mauldin said.
However, he said, the student kept careful notes of experimentation with explosives in the weeks leading up to the Oct. 1 blast.
Now, a depressed student decides to kill himself. At first, it looked as though he wanted to commit suicide publicly, with no harm intended for anyone else. However, the revelation of what was found in his apartment, including his extensive notes on fragmentation bombs, leads many others to conclude that this was something other than a simple suicide. I tend to agree with this. It was clear that it was incompetance that led to his "early" demise. Based one what is here, one can reasonably assume that he was not his only target. He went to the stadium for reasons other than simply making his own death public.
I believe the FBI bungled this investigation because all of the evidence compiled by Tapscott and Michelle point to ulterior motives. Flopping Aces is also involved in this story, and according to Tapscott, he has been on top of this story from the beginning.
Publius II
ADDENDUM:
I just picked this up from John at PowerLine.
The FBI has reported that it found no evidence of links between Hinrichs and terrorist groups. Last fall, there were reports that Islamist literature was found in Hinrichs's apartment, but today's article says nothing about that.
It has always seemed pretty clear to me that Hinrichs was up to more than suicide. He tried to buy a large quantity of ammonium nitrate fertilizer from a local store, but the proprietor turned him down because "something didn't feel right." Unless Hinrichs was gardening on a really, really big scale, he wanted to create a fertilizer bomb, an extremely unlikely method of committing suicide.
None of which means, of course, that Hinrichs was a would-be Islamic terrorist. But the eagerness, last fall, of the authorities and most of the media to close the book on the incident with the implausible claim that he was nothing but a suicide victim doesn't inspire confidence in their eagerness to get to the bottom of the story.
That's the point here, folks. Something positively reeks in Denmark (or in this case Oklahoma), and it seems that it's being swept under the carpet. The authorities don't want to fully invesitgate this incident, it seems, as it appears. It appears to me to be a possible act of domestic terrorism. We'll never really know what Hinrichs was thinking when he pulled off this little stunt, but based on the bomb, the materials for the bomb, the ammunition found in his apartment, the Islamic literature, and the fragmentation experimentation it sure looks like he was planning an attack of sorts on the university's campus.
Answers are needed in this, and pressure needs to be applied to get to the bottom of this. We can't just turn a blind eye to this situation. We live in a post 9/11 world where our enemy wants to hurt us as much as possible. While Hinrichs may not have been a person associated with al Qaeda, it's clear that enough suspicion dictates that the investigation should be deeper than what it is right now.
Publius II (Updated at 8:51 p.m., AZ Time)
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