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.
Thanks for your comments. I have trying to make sure to only report what I hear from the media today and people I totally trust. This Boren deal has me scratching my head as all he had to say was this is under investigation.
They were warned that no one was to talk and it came from the President of OU. Guess he didn't get to the President of Triangle fast enough because that guy was on the 10 o'clock news.
And you have been doing an excellent job of reporting just that very clearly.
Nam Vet
Which is a simpler explaination in the WTC case, that a plane flying at near supersonic speed hits one of the tallest buildings in the world on a cloudless day, or that the plane was hijacked and flown into it on purpose? I would argue that it is the latter.
That is my point exactly. This method (suicide by bomb) is extremely rare, to non-existant, in the USA. Many posters on this thread, and other threads, have been challenged to provide links to verified instances of suicide by bomb in a public area in America. So far, there have been none. I did impose a qualifier that the event could not include the construction, transportation, or deployment of the bomb.
This current event would be an aberration. I contend that a specialised skill, or experience, is required in order to construct, transport, deploy, and detonate a high explosive device in Norman Oklahoma. The attendant tinfoiler and paranoid comments followed.
Thick hide mandates that I will stand by my conviction and experience.
Good information. I'm sure they're (The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Joint Terrorism Task Force, OU police, Norman police and the Cleveland County Sheriff's Office), asking the same questions most of us are asking and probably more.
That article makes total sense to me. I am not buying into the Boren spin on this one.
Joint Terrorism Task Force is involved and we are supposed to believe this is simply a student that is depressed? That defies my believeability meter!
Horrible and shock, yes, but not intentional. I personally don't think that was the reaction from most when the first plane hit.
Yep same here... there must be some reason for them to investigate this further or they wouldn't be there IMHO.
As long as you do not visit the "Suicide Bomber Identified" thread, you should be OK. The claim there is that anyone looking at (or posting on) this thread is a nutter. Go figure.
I don't agree with Boren's spin either. OBTW, I have been following this entire thread and you have been doing a wonderful job. Thank you for all of your hard work! :)
That makes me a nutter then because I am not buying the spin being put out. I have told people on here for a long time to think not rely on the media to do your thinking for you. Even our media is questioning the OU spin.
That explosion I heard tonight that rattled my front window came from 4-5 miles from here and was the police blowing up what they found. It was more than a pipe bomb to be sure.
Talked to her this afternoon.
When the first plane hit, I thought it was a horrible accident -- never gave terrorism a thought.
This may answer your question.
Lahargis (on another thread) pointed out this comment from the article below:
http://www.oudaily.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/10/02/433f3c43d0f24
"Drake Melson, University College freshman, said he went past a police barricade and saw a bomb robot near the bench where the bomb had detonated.
“What I saw from the video feed from the bomb robot was pretty graphic. Just imagine someone who was wearing pants and seeing nothing from the waist up. It was really disturbing,” he said."
Me too. I actually thought it was some major steering malfunction. But when that second plane hit "the lights came on."
That was an Ottowa publication, if I recall correctly.
I have no doubt. Shucks, it don't bother me none to be called a nutter. I was in Europe on 11 September. Did not get back home until the 17th. And all of my American friends said "no problem". Must have been an accident. And the poor NG kids (yes I can say that) with nothing in the magazine, watched my happy @ss walk out of the airport. I get paid to be paranoid.
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