{"id":5323,"date":"2005-10-05T14:38:13","date_gmt":"2005-10-05T21:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=5323"},"modified":"2005-10-05T14:38:13","modified_gmt":"2005-10-05T21:38:13","slug":"oklahoma-jihad-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=5323","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma Jihad, Redux?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a “shift”<\/a> from his original position, Oklahoma University President David Boren, a former chairman<\/a> of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, is now refusing to describe the explosion as a suicide:<\/p>\n

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Dustin Ellison said the student visited his store on Wednesday and asked to buy the fertilizing ingredient often used in bombs. Ellison said Hinrichs didn’t know how much he needed, and the store operator asked why the fertilizer was needed. After further discussion, Ellison said “something didn’t feel right” and decided not to sell any materials to him.\n<\/p>\n

\nHinrichs, 21, was a National Merit scholar from Colorado Springs, Colo. Boren said Hinrichs did not participate in a pregame recognition of freshmen National Merit scholars because he was not a freshman.\n<\/p>\n

\n“Was he in the stadium, did he attempt to enter the stadium?” Boren asked rhetorically. “To our knowledge,<\/a> at this point, the answer to that question is no.”\n<\/p>\n

\nWhile saying it appears no one else is connected to the bombing, Boren made a shift in describing Hinrich’s death by saying, “I do not say suicide, I say it’s an individual death that we’re dealing with. That’s all we really know.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nJoel Hinrichs’ failed attempt to buy ammonium nitrate could prove to be key to the investigation—which, as Mark Tapscott points out, is now being led by the FBI and the Joint Terrorism Task Force<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

\nClassical Values<\/a> has much more, including some thoughts on the (lack of) reporting <\/a>on this story.  Wizbang has an additional quote<\/a> from Hinrich’s father<\/a>.  And American Thinker’s Steve Washawsky<\/a> writes:<\/p>\n

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[…] surely, in the absence of compelling evidence to the contrary, anyone who blows himself up in public near large crowds of people should be presumed to be a terrorist, not a bizarrely suicidal college student. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nIndeed—and particularly when we consider the beard and the attempt to purchase ammonium nitrate, which would have strengthened the bomb.\n<\/p>\n

\nMore<\/a>, from Michelle Malkin.  And here’s a video report<\/a> noting that Hinnrich attended a local mosque (h\/t<\/a> Glenn)\n<\/p>\n

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\nupdate<\/i><\/b>:  Gateway Pundit has more<\/a>; in addition to trying to buy ammonium nitrate, Hinrich used the same explosive—known as “Mother of Satan”<\/a> to Islamic terror groups—as shoe bomber Richard Reid.\n<\/p>\n

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\nupdate 2<\/b><\/i>:  Courtesy of Michelle Malkin: “Bomber’s Roommate Held Briefly After Attack”<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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The Pakistani roommate of a man authorities said died when he detonated an explosive device outside a crowded football stadium was led in handcuffs from a party shortly after Saturday’s explosion, the head of an Islamic student group said.\n<\/p>\n

\nFazal M. Cheema, a finance major, shared a university-owned apartment with Joel Hinrichs III, 21, who died Saturday when a device attached to his body exploded as he sat on a bench outside George Lynn Cross Hall.\n<\/p>\n

\nCheema and three other Muslim students were led in handcuffs from a party by police after the blast, Ashraf Hussein, president of the Muslim Student Association, said Tuesday. They later were released.\n<\/p>\n

\nCheema is “a really, really nice guy,” Hussein said.\n<\/p>\n

\nOU President David Boren said authorities continue to believe that Hinrichs did not try to get into the stadium and that he acted alone. He said Hinrichs’ roommate, along with his acquaintances, were questioned by federal authorities.\n<\/p>\n

\n“All the people who lived in that building, all the people that lived in the building surrounding it, all the people who knew him well or were living in proximity to him … have been questioned; none of those people have been held by law enforcement,” Boren said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\nupdate<\/b><\/i>:  Tigerhawk has additional info<\/a> (h\/t amyc<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a “shift” from his original position, Oklahoma University President David Boren, a former chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, is now refusing to describe the explosion as a suicide: Dustin Ellison said the student visited his store on Wednesday and asked to buy the fertilizing ingredient often used in bombs. Ellison said Hinrichs didn’t know how much he needed, and the store operator asked why the fertilizer<\/p>\n

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