[Polybius]

His father seems an odd fellow--some of the first words out of his mouth in an earlier interview were, "It wasn't a political act!" Seems really strange, and something I've never heard from a grieving father talking about a child's suicide before.

Could a reason for the comment possibly be that 90% of America was automatically assuming that it was a politically motivated attempted suicide bombing?

Bomb Blast at University of Oklahoma (Breaking on Fox) - suicide bomber at OU

[MizSterious]

This was rather early on, before we knew about the Paki roomies and the Islamic connections. Before we knew, but apparently, not before his father knew, because he went into spin mode right away.