Posted on 10/01/2005 7:05:29 PM PDT by blogblogginaway
Edited on 10/01/2005 7:21:56 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
The explosion happened at the courtyard near the George Lynn Cross Hall, Botany-Microbiology Building on OU's campus, which is west of the stadium, according to Sgt. Gary Robinson of the University police department. The explosion happened during the second quarter of Oklahoma's game against Kansas State. After the explosion, police set up a perimeter of several blocks and made fans exit the stadium to the east.
NORMAN -- An explosion near the University of Oklahoma's Gaylord Family-Memorial Stadium killed one person Saturday, OU officials said.
I wouldn't paint with such a broad brush. Consider that we have a never-ending stream of potential Islamists planting themselves in universities nationwide, and most of those universities don't want to endanger their cash cows (full tuition, paid in advance) by reporting dropouts or suspicious behavior to the feds. Meanwhile, Foggy Bottom is still allowing European Muslims to enter on the visa-waiver program.
It's much like playing whack-a-mole, with the ACLU, academia and a wide range of powerful financial, political and/or leftist interests on the moles' side.
Please point me to the last three suicide bombings in the United States. The 9-11 thing does not count.
"Patience would've gotten you killed if you'd been on the 95th floor of the 2nd WTC building and just decided to wait for the email that it was just a construction crew doing some remodeling that went wrong."
There's a time for action and a time for patience. Burning building require action. Patience served me just fine as I decided to wait and see where Rita would go instead of running off and getting stuck in traffic. Patiently waiting for news from OKC will do me fine now. If it's terrorists, I'll have plenty of time to run around and panic later.
Other than when something happens on the field, football stadiums are not all that noisy... from the outside. From the inside, it's a different story, but folks in there obviously heard the bomb detonate, at least some of them.
Sound, especially something like a gunshot or bomb blast, carries along way, depending of course on temperature, wind, humidity etc.
I used to be able to hear the hogs dropping the covers on their feeders on the next farm over from my wife's grandparents' farm, and that was about 1/2 mile away. Gunshots, even mere shotguns, could be heard at least a mile away.
lmao!! You got me. I had that one coming.
another question - does the campus/stadium area have any webcams or video surveillance systems in place?
"until captures are made"
How far away is Glendale, AZ, BTW, from Norman, by car?
So what are you implying, having no more information that the rest of us here?
Are you going to call it a suicide bombing? Based on what?
An accidental detonation? Based on what?
A terrorist act? Based on what?
A stadium bombing? It wasn't in the stadium.
All we know is that something went 'boom' and someone got killed who was in the vicinity of the 'boom.'
We don't even know if the two are connected.
I could have said, 'the explosion that occured near the stadium last night,' but 'stadium incident' was sufficient.
Official sources are always going to be slow, but fortunately there were other reports coming out at the time of the British attacks.
I think there's probably a news blackout going on in the OK case, possibly to find other persons involved, or possibly to get through today without inspiring a bunch of wannabe jihadists to haul out all their cherry bombs, string them around their waists and blow up outside a local football game. These guys are dumb and susceptible.
To bring everyone up to date on this story....
What we know so far:
1) October 1, 2005 - an explosive device killed one 'person' outside a Oklahoma football game with 84,000 fans inside.
2) The major media has not updated this story since last night and the major news channels have not had any live remotes/reporters at the 'crime scene'.
3) There is no description of the individual involved.
4) There is confusion over the existence of a second device alledgedly found.
5) The FBI, BATFE, OSP, and Norman police are involved.
6) The Oklahoma school president states that it was a suicide; however, the campus police state that do not know what the motive was.
That's about it.
"If you actually read the other posts, you'll learn something new."
If you actually read the posts, you'd see I was here since the beginning. In fact, my first post on this thread was number 26.
I'm just thinking of the next Big 12 football game on my calendar.
BTW, in the FR style, you can show someone's quote in italics by preceding there remarks with < i> (without the space before the i) and following the remarks with < /i>< p> (without the space before the / and the p)
Er, huh?
I don't know of any.
I'm talking about nutcases who would give serious thought to parroting THIS one if they thought it would get them on the news as a "big deal."
It's tragic, but it seems only a matter of time until suicide bombings occur in the U.S.
"MSM could go nuts with this story, saying that this is exactly the kind of thing that is going to happen more and more in response to all the things that Bush has done wrong, it's all our own fault, it's just poor wittle middle easterners trying to get back at us for wrecking their peaceful countries . . ."
Well, as a few others have suggested, something like this also supports the Bush doctrine on the WOT.
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