Highly explosive material found in apartment of Colorado man who blew self up near football game

9news ^ | 11/19/05 | AP wire

[ARealMothersSonForever]

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[caryatid]

Just a simple suicide, huh?!

[anymouse]

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[bkepley]

Just a simple suicide, huh?!

Not a very simple suicide but if they didn't find links to Al Qaeda I'd just as soon they not say they did.

[Myrddin]

Gee, no mention that he had attended the nearby Mosque. The most radical of Islamists are found in the ranks of engineering students. This is no surprise at all.

[Cicero]

He was making bombs in his room and driving out to remote areas to detonate them, but his Pakistani roommate never noticed?

This still smells. The problem is, most likely, that because the FBI is already hip deep in complicity with the Oklahoma City bombers, some of whom worked as FBI "informers," that they desperately want to sit on the whole thing. They can't afford to find these people or the earlier connections and coverups might come out.

[OldFriend]

The father's pronouncements are meaningless. He has no idea whether his son intended to kill others with his bomb.

[SpaceBar]

They found a handwritten memo from Bill Clinton to Jamie Gorelick instructing her to put up intelligence barriers between law enforcement agencies?

[PhiKapMom]

Saw this article -- lot of Bravo Sierra floating around.

[varyouga]

"Kincheloe and Hinrichs were members of the Triangle Fraternity, an organization of engineers, architects and scientists"

Damn. I used to hang out at the local chapter of this Frat and the burnout rate for engineering is very high. Some guys crack after thinking engineering is not for them and they get depressed after "wasting" 3 years.

[taxesareforever]

told The Oklahoman the amount still in the apartment was enough to "very easily take both your hands off."

Much like the large firecracker M1000. Just to lend perspective to this statement.

[Ohioan from Florida]

I wish that I could say that I trust the FBI and mean it, but I can't.

[ARealMothersSonForever]

OUbombing info

[ARealMothersSonForever]

Sorry for the doubleping

[Strategerist]

He was making bombs in his room and driving out to remote areas to detonate them, but his Pakistani roommate never noticed?

Plenty of college students, myself included, have shared apartments with people they barely ever saw, had no idea what they did or where they went, and frankly who they had trouble remembering their last names.

[popdonnelly]

"This still smells."

So does TATP, and his Pakistani roommate never noticed that, either.

[jimbo123]

http://www.newsok.com/article/1682269/

A bombing witness, bus driver Donald Wayne Laughlin, reported seeing Hinrichs "hunched" over on a park bench, leaning over a backpack on his lap, just before the explosion. The driver said he walked on and looked back to the bench after the explosion in time to see "a cloud of gray smoke as well as a human arm."

The FBI reported the backpack had to be destroyed later to be made safe after an X-ray showed a meter device and tools.

Found at the blast site were a chemistry book, a crescent wrench, a white sock with at least two protruding wires, a screwdriver with a sock stuffed in the handle, a large number of unused wooden matches, and an empty match box, the records show.

Also found was a pen with an attached razor and a nine-volt battery. Behind the bench was a black plastic container with "Cross Country" and "lubricant" on the label. On the bench was a pink pen with two protruding wires and on the sidewalk was a green circuit board.

The student's father, Joel Hinrichs Jr., said again Friday his son intended to kill only himself. He is still waiting for the release of his son's remains, after DNA testing is completed. He plans to cremate the body.

The father, who was shown photos of his son's body by the FBI, said, "He sat there on the bench with one arm wrapped around the explosive looped around his neck and the other hand holding some kind of device to make it go off."

[Mo1]

FYI

[null and void]

Not a very simple suicide but if they didn't find links to Al Qaeda

Well, they did find a crescent wrench...