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Highly explosive material found in apartment of Colorado man who blew self up near football game
9news ^ | 11/19/05 | AP wire

Posted on 11/19/2005 2:46:51 PM PST by Fizzie

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - FBI agents found the same type of volatile high explosive believe to have been used in the suicide bombings in London inside the apartment of a University of Oklahoma student who blew himself up near a packed football stadium, according to newly released documents.

The FBI also discovered "explosive experiments and paraphernalia" and 0.4 pounds of a white powder that turned out to be triacetone triperoxide, or TATP, which is composed of hydrogen peroxide and acetone, according to warrants to search the home of Joel Henry Hinrichs III.

The documents were made public Friday after U.S. Magistrate Valerie Couch ruled "there is no longer any necessity" for records of the search of Hinrichs' apartment, e-mail account and nine OU computers to remain sealed.

Hinrichs, of Colorado Springs, Colo., died Oct. 1 when an explosive device went off about 100 yards from Gaylord Family/Oklahoma Memorial Stadium.

FBI officials have said in the past the probe didn't uncover any links between the student and terrorist organizations. They have said they may never know whether the student wanted to get inside the stadium.

Federal agents found mixing bowls, a slow cooker, a thermometer, plastic containers, a hobby fuse, a circuit board, six tape rolls, chemicals used to make TATP as well as the TATP in the apartment, the documents showed.

An Oklahoma City police bomb technician, who was not involved in the investigation, told The Oklahoman the amount still in the apartment was enough to "very easily take both your hands off."

Hinrichs' laptop computer was still on and screen notes apparently written by Hinrichs to himself were visible, the records show. At the cursor was a phrase that began with profanity and continued " ... all this. None of you are worth living with. You can all kiss my ass."

The FBI also found Hinrichs downloaded from the Internet "numerous text and image files" on weapons and explosives, including one on TATP four days before his death.

One video on his computer depicted a lit match being placed above a white powder then a bright flash.

According to the FBI, OU student Lawrence R. Kincheloe III told agents Hinrichs liked explosives, frequently experimented with building and detonating explosive devices and once showed off a detonator.

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

"Kincheloe told the agents that Hinrichs would drive out to remote areas to try to detonate bombs, but that he never accompanied Hinrichs," the FBI reported. "Kincheloe stated Hinrichs did show him the remains of some ... devices he detonated, which Kincheloe described as pieces of plastic soda bottles."

OU student Fazal Cheema told agents that Hinrichs had responded to his Internet advertisement for a roommate, and said the two didn't socialize.

Cheema said Hinrichs was quiet and kept to himself and that he wasn't aware of Hinrichs' interest in bombs.

A chemistry book; a crescent wrench; a white sock with at least two protruding wires; a screwdriver with a sock stuffed in the handle; unused wooden matches and other items were found at the bomb site.

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.


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Colorado; US: Oklahoma
KEYWORDS: explosives; hinrichs; oubombing; tatp
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To: Itzlzha
hell ANFO would be commonly available and producable.

He tried to buy a lager quantity of ammonium nitrate a few days before his demise.

81 posted on 11/20/2005 8:15:53 AM PST by null and void (The enemy of my enemy is my tool...)
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To: DugwayDuke
The company's founder and the wrench's so-called inventor, Karl Peterson, really did nothing more than buy the design from a Swedish immigrant, who had seen similar wrenches made in his homeland.

Those damm Swede møøslimbs!

82 posted on 11/20/2005 8:23:26 AM PST by null and void (The enemy of my enemy is my tool...)
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To: brytlea

*shrug* I didn't know my college roommate had several quarter pound blocks of TNT, C-4 and detonators until I happened to see them in his footlocker one day...


83 posted on 11/20/2005 8:26:19 AM PST by null and void (The enemy of my enemy is my tool...)
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To: mad_as_he$$

Yes. If you look near the screw it says 100mm...


84 posted on 11/20/2005 8:29:06 AM PST by null and void (The enemy of my enemy is my tool...)
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To: null and void

and funkle...


85 posted on 11/20/2005 8:30:13 AM PST by null and void (The enemy of my enemy is my tool...)
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To: null and void
hell ANFO would be commonly available and producable.

He tried to buy a lager quantity of ammonium nitrate a few days before his demise.

Gee...I am Sooooooo shocked and surprised at that fact...and just where is the Lamestream Marxist Media with that fact? Or are they too busy up Boren's behind that the Islamazi connection just isn't on their radar?

And, as we all know, ANFO is THE choice of depressed loners contemplating a quiet suicide...with TATP a close second!

86 posted on 11/20/2005 8:34:51 AM PST by Itzlzha ("The avalanche has already started...it is too late for the pebbles to vote")
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To: LibertyRocks
New details emerged Friday when U.S. Magistrate Valerie Couch made public the records on the FBI search of Hinrichs' apartment, his e-mail account and nine OU computers.

Federal prosecutors told the magistrate "there is no longer any necessity" for the documents to remain sealed. ==============================================================

The Suspicious Parser opines........

The documents have now been carefully "sanitized" so there is no longer any reason for them to remained sealed.

87 posted on 11/20/2005 8:35:41 AM PST by Rockpile
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To: null and void
Well, they did find a crescent wrench...
Aha! A clue! Good work N&V! ;-)
88 posted on 11/20/2005 8:45:21 AM PST by Tunehead54 (Nothing funny here ;-)
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To: bkepley
This terrorist mentality is what is dangerous. The kid left a message that we could kiss his ass; that is indicative of a thought process that is guided by the need to influence others...even at the cost of one's own life.

So many people hope to do good. It's sad that the Islamic mutants want to do bad in the name of good. In doing so they use the same psychology that helped the Nazis in the thirties gain power in Germany, and, to a much lesser extent, is being used by today's democrats.

In these cases, hatred is the foundation of their actions. The Democrats run on hatred, al Qaeda runs on hatred, the Nazis ran on hatred. Of the three, I only believe the democrats have the ability to cure themselves. When will they wake up?

89 posted on 11/20/2005 8:52:47 AM PST by Loud Mime (Bad Lawmakers = Bad Law = Infinite Lawyers)
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To: Fizzie; LibertyRocks; PhiKapMom

Cheema says he never knew? He expects us to believe this?


90 posted on 11/20/2005 8:59:00 AM PST by MizSterious (Anonymous sources often means "the voices in my head told me.")
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To: Cicero

Yours is the most likely reason for this continuing coverup--and I'm convinced that's what it is.


91 posted on 11/20/2005 9:01:12 AM PST by MizSterious (Anonymous sources often means "the voices in my head told me.")
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To: taxesareforever

Except that befoer the clamped down on the reporting, it was stated that it was enough to blow up the whole building. It took almost a full day to cart the stuff off. When they blew it up at another site, the blasts shook houses miles away. Sounds like a bit more than "firecracker."


92 posted on 11/20/2005 9:03:15 AM PST by MizSterious (Anonymous sources often means "the voices in my head told me.")
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To: Strategerist

For the record, this stuff apparently has a distinctive odor to it. They arrested a guy in San Diego because of the odor from his "experiments" because they thought it was a meth lab.


93 posted on 11/20/2005 9:05:11 AM PST by MizSterious (Anonymous sources often means "the voices in my head told me.")
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To: LS; Borax Queen
why would so MANY in the FBI---who are honest, and who have a reputation to maintain (and I've known some) go along with a cover-up of OK City? And now this? On the other hand, how in the world can they NOT raise questions about a Middle Eastern roommate, visits to a mosque, and London-style explosive attacks??

I don't think we are yet seeing the picture here.

Me neither.....but I'm becoming less and less "surprised" about govt. cover-ups.

94 posted on 11/20/2005 9:09:26 AM PST by nicmarlo
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To: laz

Plus, remember that according to other articles, they found packed bags in his apartment, and a road atlas on the front seat of his car. He was planning on making a road trip, also known as "bugging out after the bomb."


95 posted on 11/20/2005 9:12:20 AM PST by MizSterious (Anonymous sources often means "the voices in my head told me.")
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To: penelopesire

Someone--Cheema maybe?--had a one-way ticket to Morrocco, supposedly for spring break (which, I note, is some months away).


96 posted on 11/20/2005 9:15:14 AM PST by MizSterious (Anonymous sources often means "the voices in my head told me.")
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To: nicmarlo

I suspect, though, there are some good reasons. I'd just like to know what they are.


97 posted on 11/20/2005 9:27:13 AM PST by LS
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To: JOE6PAK
Do they make a left handed crescent wrench?

Absolutely. And they also come in metric sizes.

98 posted on 11/20/2005 9:46:24 AM PST by meadsjn
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To: LS; Borax Queen
It's one thing to not tell all/critical info., as with any on-going investigation.

It's quite another to pretend or deny that more members of AQ aren't here (we already know of those that hijacked the 9/11 airplanes, and of a few groups arrested in NY and other areas....one can't believe they are the ONLY ones who came into the U.S. or remain here) or hasn't been/isn't captured in attempts to get into the U.S. For example, when the London tube bombings occurred, when the Bali bombings occurred, and when the recent Jordanian bombing occurred, OUR govt. and the media makes constant announcements....but when something happens here, as in this stadium case, unless it's so OBVIOUS like what happened at the WTC, where they cannot make denials, we hear almost nothing about it or there being any connection to any group of muslims or terrorists, much less AQ.

But they are coming in.

Sheriff West, from the Rio Grande area, stated:

Lawmaker: Terror war spilling across border

"He was part of al-Qaida,"...."The written communication that we were able to obtain was...in the nature of code words." He said the alleged operative was transferred from Mexico to Brewster County, which borders Hudspeth County, "in the custody of the U.S. Marshal Service."

And, FBI Director Mueller testifying under oath, stated:

'[t]he FBI has received reports that individuals from countries with known al-Qaida connections have attempted to enter the U.S. illegally using alien smuggling rings and assuming Hispanic appearances. An FBI investigation into these reports continues.'

99 posted on 11/20/2005 9:46:58 AM PST by nicmarlo
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To: brytlea

I guess it depends on how much of a space shot his roommate is. But personally, I very much doubt it.


100 posted on 11/20/2005 11:07:47 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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