Posted on 10/02/2005 3:46:04 PM PDT by WestTexasWend
A University of Oklahoma student died in an explosion Saturday night near a stadium packed with 84,000 people. Although the investigation is not complete, the medical examiner believes Joel Henry Hinrichs III, 21, of Colorado Springs, Colo., perished in the blast, said Salvador Hernandez, special agent in charge of the FBI in Oklahoma .
Hinrichs died about 8 p.m. when an explosive detonated near the Oklahoma Memorial Stadium.
According to the university’s Web site, Hinrichs was a junior in the college of engineering.
There were no reports of any other injuries and university officials have said the spectators at the game were in no danger at any time.
Initially, police believed there were two explosives -- the one that detonated and another that didn't -- but a later search found no other device.
University President David Boren said a police bomb squad did detonate an item found at the blast site to ensure that it was not an explosive.
I think the kid was a third. But he was an engineering student. Sounds like a real loon. They are searching his whole apartment complex now.
By the way Gadham's real birth last name is Pearlman
It took a while before we knew that the kid in Florida crashed the plane into a building did it in "honor" of Bin Laden.
Must admit that blowing oneself up is an unusual way to commit suicide. He had to know that people would suspect terrorism.
You think they could keep that quiet?
I wonder whose backback the police blew up.
OU has put out some of the best engineers in the country. I am personally related to some.
Yes and there still wasn't a public uprise demanding the U.S. confront Islamofascists here in America when that happened because the media had a way of downplaying it, and the FBI kept so much a secret. But I and most other FReepers can see right through the bull s&^%
I'm 60 and have seen guys commit suicide in high school, college, the service, and later....because of pressure, fear, sadness, and women.
I really never understood it. Too much pressure and I crack and become catatonic, too much fear and I cry like a little girl, too much sadness and I get drunk to hide the weepies, too much women and I ask my wife what to do. Never have I thought suicide was an option.
If someone is going to commit suicide, they arn't going to blow themself up...unless it's in the name of Allah or something...
Remember the brown car full of Muslim guys the cops tried to chase down after the OKC bombing?
Good grief! There's a 21 yr old student dead--he apparently suffered from mental illness of some sort--and somehow, you tie him in with Muslims?
Right, sounds like profiling to me, but he does fit the profile.
Glad to have the ID on the deceased. Thank God no one was killed but him.
Growing up, I had a good friend whose idea of fun was mixing chemicals just to see what could be made to go "boom!"
Nutty, wacky, goofy brilliant kid, but not muslim. More like a nominal hardshell baptist.
Hinrichs? He must be one of those Bavarian terrorists. Was he wearing lederhosen?
I have heard of "suicice by cop" but "suicide by aggrieved wife" is new to me . . .
PING........
"You think they could keep that quiet?"
The DC snipers aren't considered terrorists even though the Malvo kids drawings make it clear he intended to punish the infidels.
The LAX shooter isn't considered a terrorist even though he was an Egyptian (I think) who opened fire on an Israeli ticket counter.
The Egyptian pilot who dove his planeload of passengers into the Atlantic while he praised Allah wasn't considered a terrorist.
It's not a matter of keeping it quiet, it's a matter of discounting it if true.
Well, someone has to validate an entire thread to this being a terrorist. Over 2000 posts I believe.
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