That is one accident that saved lives.
Right. And islam is the Religion of Peace.
Sorry, story posted earlier with different headline words.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1587763/posts
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Well, that certainly explains why he went to a location where 100,000 people were gathered.
Geesh. I thought this kind of stuff was only possible in the cartoons.
Ping - Joel Hinrichs III determined to have blown himself up accidentally, and not in the location he intended.
They can spin it anyway they want but IMO this scumbag was planning to ake a whole bunch of people with him or plant the explosives and leave the area.
In the immortal words of Dr. Peter Venkman, "I'd call that a big YES."
"Investigators also found more TATP, components to make the substance, a fuse and live military rounds at Hinrichs' off-campus apartment."
No wonder his Paki roommate had tickets to leave the country for the following day.
Seems to me that they want to keep spinning this one. It won't work with me!
"Officers also removed metal fragments that are often to explosives to make them more deadly, Mauldin said."
I'm assuming "attached" should be inserted into this poorly written statement in between "often" and "to".
If so, the attachment of fragmentation material would tend to indicate sinister motive....But what do we know?
The FBI just wanted to keep a lid on this. Hinrichs didn't walk seven blocks with a backpack stuffed with TATP in order to commit suicide. And there was a report that he tried to get inside the stadium at one of the gates.
My take is, he was waiting for the crowd to start coming out of the stadium, and had a work-related accident. People need to wake up and stop making excuses.
Nothing in the article about his Pakistani room mate in that apartment full of explosives. What about his location to the nearby mosque???
Actually, I think Sgt. Mauldin is more forthcoming than might first appear. When asked if the perp meant to attack the stadium, he says he doesn't think the perp meant to blow himself up on the bench. And he says that it was an accident, much like what are commonly called "work accidents" among Palestinian bomb makers. And he says that he thinks the perp got too cocky and fiddled with his bomb once too often.
He makes it pretty clear that it was not just an ordinary suicide, although that is the official story.
I suppose it's SOP, but it strikes me as stupid that they blew up the timer and wiring after the bomb had already gone off. Surely it was safe enough to remove and examine it closely, without having to blow up this important evidence yet again.
I'd say that the FBI and other authorities told this guy to keep this under his hat, but he didn't want to lie under oath. FBI agents don't seem to have any problem with doing that.
no, an accident is something that is not meant to happen, period. this was meant to happen. the accident was that he was supposed to blow himslef to allah and take infidels with him INSIDE the stadium.
I still have a lot of questions about this. I doubt we'll ever know the whole story.
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I agree with Sgt. Mauldin; I don't think Hinrichs intended to kill himself by detonating the bomb at the bus stop bench.
Not long after the incident, a freeper posted a map of the area, showing the locations of Hinrichs' apartment, the football stadium, and the bus stop. If I remember it correctly, the stadium was north of the apartment, and the bus stop was farther away, somewhat west of the stadium.
I think the most likely scenario is that Hinrichs tried to enter the stadiuim with the bomb hidden in the backpack. The detonator was probably timed to explode during the game. But due to the stadium security procedures, he couldn't get in the with the backpack, so he walked to the bench to consider an alternate plan.
He may have wanted to change the timer, to detonate the bomb as the crowd was leaving the stadium. Or he may even have been trying to take the bomb out of the backpack, to conceal the bomb some other way, still hoping to get it into the stadium before the game ended.
I think we are very lucky that the device was unstable, and blew up when it did.
And I bet all of us think the roommate is suspicious. How can you not be aware of somebody working with dangerous chemicals in a small apartment?
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