Nothing To See Here - Move Along

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Nothing To See Here - Move Along

By Michelle Malkin

October 12, 2005

Oct. 12 marks the fifth anniversary of the bombing of the USS Cole. Seventeen American sailors were murdered in the attack. They were casualties of a war with radical Islamic terror that America hadn't yet declared and which the mainstream media still refuses to acknowledge today.

Too many of us were blind in 2000 -- unable or unwilling or simply too uninterested to connect such blood-stained dots as al Qaeda's 1993 World Trade Center bombing attack, the 1996 Khobar Tower bombings, the 1998 African embassy bombings, and the attack on the Cole. After Sept. 11, 2001, all of our eyes should have been pried wide open to the evils of Muslim extremism that exist among us in both organized and freelance form.

The watchdogs in the national press, however, insist on clouding our vision.

Since 9/11, I've reported on the media's reluctance to highlight the convicted Washington, D.C.-area snipers' Islamist proclivities and journalists' refusal to call Egyptian gunman Hesham Hadayet's acts of murder at the Israeli airline counter at Los Angeles International Airport on July 4, 2002, "terrorism."

Middle East scholar Daniel Pipes noted how quickly the media sought to whitewash the bloody bus-hijacking by Croatian illegal alien Damir Igric a month after 9/11. Although the incident "echoed similar attacks by Palestinians on Israeli buses," Pipes observed, the "media attributed the violence to post-traumatic stress syndrome."

National Guardsman Ryan Anderson (a.k.a. Amir Talhah), a Muslim convert who allegedly attempted to pass sensitive military information to al Qaeda over the Internet, rated barely a blip on the media radar screen.

Similarly, press accounts have downplayed the disruption of terrorist cells on American soil: The Lackawanna Six were just nice Muslim boys led astray. The Virginia Jihad Network was just a group of weekend paintball enthusiasts. Those indicted imams in Lodi, Calif., are just misunderstood "moderates." Terror suspects deported on immigration charges are just victims of discrimination.

Now, many of my readers wonder why the MSM won't touch the strange and troubling story of the University of Oklahoma bomber, Joel Henry Hinrichs III. On Oct. 1, Hinrichs died on a park bench outside the school's packed football stadium when a homemade bomb in his possession exploded. The Justice Department has sealed a search warrant in the case. The university's president, David Boren, is pooh-poohing local media and Internet blog reports of possible jihadist influences on Hinrichs. The dead bomber was, we are being told, simply a depressed and troubled young man with "no known ties" to terrorism.

Never mind that, according to local news reporters, the bomb-making material found in Hinrichs' apartment was triacetone triperoxide -- the explosive chemical of choice of shoe bomber Richard Reid and the London 7/7 subway bombers.

Never mind the local police department's confirmation that Hinrichs had attempted to buy ammonium nitrate a few days before his death.

Never mind the concerns of Oklahoma University student journalist Rachael Kahne, who told me this week in a call for the media's help:

"I've been working on this story since the night it happened, and have been stonewalled at every turn. . . . Minutes after the explosion, police busted into a student's apartment and arrested four Muslim students who were there for a small gathering (the president of the Muslim Student Association assures me this was in no way a "party"). Among those arrested [and later released] was Fazal Cheema, Joel Henry Hinrichs' Pakistani roommate. I was baffled when I heard this. I didn't know how police would be able to identify who Hinrichs was, where he lived, who his roommate was, and then find where his roommate was in a matter of minutes. Something isn't adding up, and I've been wracking my brain for the past week trying to figure out what happened here. OU isn't saying anything more than the typical PR spin, and the FBI won't talk."

Nothing to see here. Move along. Islam is a peaceful religion. Stop asking so many damned questions.

Such is the attitude of the national media, which seems to believe that 'tis better to live in ignorance and indulge in hindsight later than to offend the gods of political correctness.

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Michelle Malkin is author of "Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, and Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores" (Regnery). Michelle Malkin's e-mail address is malkin@comcast.net.

COPYRIGHT 2005 CREATORS SYNDICATE, INC.

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Note -- The opinions expressed in this column are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions, views, and/or philosophy of GOPUSA.

[El Gato]

Original source:

http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2005/10/09/news/sandiego/19_21_2310_8_05.txt

[Grampa Dave]

http://www.warriorsfortruth.com/islamicradicalnews.html

The Site above has the sad story of the Pakki sniper. I can't copy it due to the site's copy right requirements.

[El Gato]

This *may* be the actual original article. Since it has no attribution, while the other says it's from wire reports?

http://www.10news.com/news/5072984/detail.html?rss=sand&psp=news

In any event, I can't find any follow up, maybe someone else can. If so, please ping me.

[LibertyRocks]

It's the same address so I think you found it! (o:

[PhiKapMom]

They were not tracking him -- don't know where that rumor got started but that is not factual. NPD didn't even get the paperwork to anyone that would have made a difference on the attempted buy of ammonium nitrate until AFTER the bomber blew up.

Can guarantee that our local FBI would never have been tracking a student from OU that lived with a Pakistani. That was never going to happen.

[LibertyRocks]

In one of the first articles or video reports I saw regarding the arrest/questioning of the students stated that they were showed up at the apartment building AFTER the blast and apprehended Cheema AFTER he came out of an apartment in the building. It was then that they took into custody the others in the apartment he came out of.

Another article/video mentioned that they found a wallet on the body - hence how they were able to know where to look so quickly...

Here's an excerpt of one article discussing the arrest/questioning:

Student recounts talk with worker - FR Thread
Hinrichs' roommate was Fazil Cheema, a student from Pakistan. Law enforcement officials late Saturday came to the Parkview Apartments complex where the pair lived, located Cheema at a neighboring apartment, then interviewed him and about a half-dozen others, who are Muslims. However, spokesmen for the local Muslim community say Cheema himself is not a practicing Muslim.

< SNIP >

Hinrichs and Cheema lived in a nearby unit, and Cheema was at the neighboring apartment when police arrived.

[Calpernia]

Is this part true then?

>>> identify who Hinrichs was, where he lived, who his roommate was, and then find where his roommate was in a matter of minutes.<<<<

That was only my guess from that statement.

[Klickitat]

Thanks for ping and BTTT.

[ovrtaxt]

She also didn't mention the Murrah building.

[ovrtaxt]

And Charles Bishop/Bishra crashed a plane (and praised OBL) in Jan 2002.

Thanks for bringing that up. That was the building where my mom works.

Bishara's father is Syrian. Local news reports brought this up, and after that, nothing.

[ballplayer]

Someone had reported him to authorities for attempting to buy fertilizer used in explosives

[wolfcreek]

"Did authorities actually screw up? The bomb only took out Hinrich. Maybe the tracking was a success."

Maybe, Hinrich didn't explode the bomb, perhapes a police sniper. That would explain how they acted minutes after the explosion.

[wolfcreek]

Has Rush mentioned this on his show? If he does, it will get the story out in a big way. I personally haven't heard it on any of the talk shows, TV or Radio, to any extent.

[goldstategop]

Its politically incorrect to question the Religion Of Peace TM. Drawing attention to its barbaric record violates just about every liberal taboo. Every one else is fair game but Islam remains off limits to critical coverage by the MSM.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[Calpernia]

I would believe that easily. Look at how many terror attacks that have been prevented. These people are being watched WAY too closely.

I know in NJ, Garden Supply Centers have to report fertilizer purchases. (or attempts)

And Hinrich did try to make a purchase.

Why wasn't he successful?

[Blood of Tyrants]

My take is that the police and FBI had been following this guy for weeks, maybe months and used some sort of technology to denonate the bomb while he was in a place that wouldn't harm anyone else.

Why they didn't get a search and arrest warrant before is beyond me.

[stevie_d_64]

Maybe they will...But it certainly is weird...

Was this posted on Michelle's website, or did she it gleen from another source???

Just curious...

I guess since these are "little" incidences, where not a lot of people are killed (just the freaks at this time)...That may be the reason the MSM is playing it down...

But then again, I do not watch MSM...So I do not know (actually thats not true, I do know "how" they report issues) what they choose to feature in their daily propaganda...

And yet, I know I am more informed than the average mush-mind who plops in front of that thing every evening to be spoonfed the latest hollywood gossip...

I guess that makes me a true "Ubersexual" man...

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[Seadog Bytes]

Thanks for the ping, Bitt!

Cindy...you saw this no doubt.(?)

[bowlalpo]

Since Rush did not talk about it the week after it happened, he won't talk about it. I don't think Hannity has either, although I am unable to give him 3 hrs. a day, it's all he asks.

Rush has lots of irons in the fire, and I don't think he likes to plug "blogoshpere" news. The blogs are blowing by Rush, making him look lazy and uninformed.