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Media ignore importance of Muslim ties MICHELLE MALKIN Press accounts have downplayed the disruption of terrorist cells on American soil. Oct. 12 marked the fifth anniversary of the bombing of the USS Cole. Seventeen American sailors were killed 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 refuse 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-Qaida's 1993 World Trade Center bombing attack, the 1996 Khobar Tower bombings,...

Sun October 16, 2005 OU student left suicide message By Nolan Clay The Oklahoman NORMAN - The University of Oklahoma student who died in an explosion Oct. 1 left a message on his computer that he was going to quit living, his father said. The FBI read the message to the father Friday, after he came to Oklahoma to clear out his son's university-owned apartment. Joel "Joe" Henry Hinrichs III, an engineering student, died when his bomb went off about 100 yards from the packed football stadium during the second quarter of OU's night game against Kansas State. Hinrichs, 21,...

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Bad timing blamed for group's detainment By Randy Ellis and Judy Gibbs RobinsonThe Oklahoman NORMAN - A University of Oklahoma instructor from Egypt said he and others of foreign descent were handcuffed at gunpoint and questioned after the OU bomb blast Oct. 1, but added he is not bitter. "Not at all. I understand. They explained. But if they keep coming back -- that's something else," Hossam Barakat said. "Because I'm not guilty in any way." Barakat, 37, blames unfortunate timing. The roommate of the student killed by the explosion just happened to wander into an apartment where he...

Student's Suicide Sets Off Explosion Of Theories by Blogs By RYAN CHITTUM and JOE HAGAN Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL October 13, 2005; Page B1 WHEN A JUNIOR at the University of Oklahoma blew himself up 100 yards away from a packed football stadium on Oct. 1, the 85,000 fans inside remained calm despite the loud explosion. But the calm has given way to anxiety, as the college town of Norman, Okla., has struggled to separate fact from fiction in the apparent suicide of Joel Henry Hinrichs III. Several bloggers have jumped to try to connect the dots...

OUR VIEW: 10/13 October 13, 2005 The FBI broke its silence Wednesday and announced, among other things, that a press conference summarizing their investigation is on the way. As of now, they are “more and more convinced” that Joel Hinrichs was acting alone when he blew himself up on the South Oval Oct. 1. They have found no connection between Hinrichs and any terrorist organization, and dispelled rumors that Jihadist materials were found in Hinrichs’ apartment. Still, we know that some people will put a lot of effort into contradicting the FBI’s analysis, facts be damned. But U.S. Rep. Tom...

Imagine a man with a bomb strapped to his body making his way into a packed football stadium, reaching his seat and blowing himself up. There would be a heavy death toll in what would be the first successful terrorist act on U.S. soil since 9-11. Jolting us back to memories of the Oklahoma City bombing, this would obviously be a massive headline in our ongoing war on terror. One would think attention would be heightened even further if such a story were to occur again in Oklahoma. Well, there's reason to believe it nearly happened, and it was indeed...

en days have passed since a 21-year-old University of Oklahoma engineering student was killed when a bomb he was carrying exploded 100 yards from the stadium where Oklahoma and Kansas State were playing football before a crowd of 84,000 – and there are still more questions than answers to exactly What? and Why? As The Oklahoman said in its October 9 edition, the explosion “left Oklahomans wondering whether it was an individual suicide or if it was intended to be an act of terrorism targeting football fans October 1.” There is evidence the student, Joel Hinrichs III of Colorado, was...

(CNSNews.com) - The head of the FBI investigation of a suicide bombing at an Oklahoma University football game said the investigation has yielded no information tying the bomber to terrorist activities, in spite of Internet reports to the contrary. Oklahoma University police requested FBI assistance in the investigation due to the nature of the Oct. 1 bombing outside Oklahoma Memorial Stadium, which killed the bomber, student Joel Henry Hinrichs III, but apparently injured no one else. In the week since the bombing, Internet reports have suggested that Hinrichs, a 21-year old engineering major, had ties to terrorism, including visiting the...

One week and two days after the FBI began investigating the Joel Hinrichs case, the feds seemingly have stopped releasing information about what they have learned. It’s time the FBI opened its files and provided The Daily, other media and the greater public with some of the answers it undoubtedly has, for more than one reason. First, the public wants to know. Second, and almost more importantly, the longer this silence continues, the more students, faculty and the nation become “certain” in their “knowledge” of what has happened. But that “knowledge” is based mostly on conjecture and hearsay, and while...

Ten days have passed since a 21-year-old University of Oklahoma engineering student was killed when a bomb he was carrying exploded 100 yards from the stadium where Oklahoma and Kansas State were playing football before a crowd of 84,000 – and there are still more questions than answers to exactly What? and Why? As The Oklahoman said in its October 9 edition, the explosion “left Oklahomans wondering whether it was an individual suicide or if it was intended to be an act of terrorism targeting football fans October 1.” There is evidence the student, Joel Hinrichs III of Colorado, was...

NORMAN, Okla. -- Norman police confirmed Thursday that they ran a routine investigation of a 21-year-old University of Oklahoma student who blew himself up on campus Saturday night. At a 2 p.m. news conference, Norman Police Department spokesman J.D. Younger said an off-duty, plainclothes officer overheard a conversation Joel Henry Hinrichs III had with the proprietor of a Norman feed store last Thursday at 4 p.m. The conversation centered on a purchase of ammonium nitrate fertilizer. "I think it's important to note that it's not a criminal activity to purchase ammonium nitrate fertilizer," Younger said. However, he noted that the...

NORMAN - University of Oklahoma officials, the Muslim community, students and others are waiting for the FBI to connect the dots in last week's public suicide of an OU student. Joel Henry Hinrichs III, 21, was killed Oct. 1 in an explosion that officials say he caused not far from a packed Oklahoma Memorial Stadium. But the dots cannot be connected, at least at this point, said Stephen Sloan, a former University of Oklahoma professor who is alarmed that far-right extremist groups have taken to the Internet with conspiracy theories attempting to link the actions of Hinrichs to the Muslim...

Father apologizes for son's actions By Nolan Clay and Ty McMahan The Oklahoman The father of a University of Oklahoma student who died in a bombing has apologized for the actions of his son. "I truly hang my head," the father, Joel Hinrichs Jr., said from Colorado Springs, Colo. Joel "Joe" Henry Hinrichs III, an engineering student, died Oct. 1 when a bomb went off outside the football stadium during the second quarter of OU's night game against Kansas State. The FBI and OU are treating the bombing as a suicide by a troubled loner, rather than a failed...

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) _ A completed review of University of Oklahoma stadium surveillance tapes by the FBI did not spot Joel Henry Hinrichs III trying to get inside. Hinrichs died Oct. 1 when explosives _ made of hydrogen peroxide _ strapped to his body detonated while he sat on a park bench about 100 yards from the stadium. After a week of investigation, the FBI and OU continue to treat the death as a suicide by a troubled loner, rather than a failed terrorist plot. OU President David Boren announced Tuesday the FBI was reviewing tapes from cameras in and...

A "psychological autopsy" could be used to help determine whether the death of former University of Oklahoma student Joel "Joe" Henry Hinrichs III was a suicide, an accident or a dangerous plot gone awry, an Edmond psychologist said. The UCLA-developed tool would study Hinrichs' behaviors, emotions and movements for the past six months, Stewart R. Beasley said. The information could be used to estimate the possibility that the OU engineering student took his own life, Beasley said. Local medical experts said the explosion near the OU football stadium will continue to leave unanswered questions. The explosion "was a planned event...

MSM reports on the OU bomber are careful to point out that Hinrichs was not a convert to Islam. My question is: What does it take to convert? A study course, a ritual of acceptance, public acknowledgement, name change, beard growth, mosque attendance, granting of a certificate, etc. More likely Hinrichs was in the process of converting his roommate, Cheema, to Lutheranism, eh?

It was only hours after Joel Henry Hinrichs III blew himself up Oct. 1 near 84,000 football fans at the University of Oklahoma when federal officials claimed he was just a troubled young man with no links to terrorists. But then yesterday the U.S. Department of Justice asked a federal court in Oklahoma City to seal the search warrant officials there used to get into the apartment Hinrichs’ shared with three or four students described by neighbors as “Arab-looking men.” If Hinrichs acted alone and had no links to terrorists’ organizations or activities, why seal the search warrant? What did...

Terrorism: Three years ago, we speculated that a deadly shooting at LAX was a terrorist act. But political and cultural sensitivity caused authorities and the media to play down the terror angle. Is this happening again? [snip] But we flashed back to July 4, 2002, when an Egyptian man shot and killed two people and wounded three at an Israeli airline ticket counter at Los Angeles International Airport. It took a while before authorities could bring themselves to call it a terrorist act. So far, the big media have laid off Hinrichs' death. Apparently the fact that he was on...

Muslim communities fear association with bomber The Norman Transcript Invites public to mosque for Ramadan By Carol Cole Transcript Staff Writer Distorted media stories have city and student Muslim communities on edge, after it was revealed that bomber Joel "Joe" Henry Hinrichs roomed with a Muslim student at the Parkview apartments near the University of Oklahoma campus. However, the FBI has found no connection between the 21-year-old engineering major, who died from an explosion at about 7:30 p.m. Saturday about 100 yards outside OU's Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium packed with more than 84,000 fans, and the Muslim community, other than...