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Brother Of Univ. Of Oklahoma Bomber Held
CBS 4 DENVER ^ | 22 NOVEMBER 2006 | AP

Posted on 11/22/2006 5:53:54 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist

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To: jdm; Cindy

we'll give it to Cindy!


21 posted on 11/23/2006 6:07:07 AM PST by bitt ("And an angel still rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm.")
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To: cripplecreek; PhiKapMom; ASA Vet; BIGLOOK; Enchante; PhilDragoo; Ernest_at_the_Beach

More on the never ending story of the home grown Islamofascist, who probably got blown up by his controller when he didn't go into the OU stadium to commit an act of mass murder.

I wonder if we will ever know the full story of the extent of Islamofascism in Oklahoma from the Clintoons to the present day.


22 posted on 11/23/2006 6:45:19 AM PST by Grampa Dave (The Bush haters on both sides have elected the government they have dreamed of!)
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To: ovrtaxt

Thanks for the ping for this never ending story thanks to the internet.


23 posted on 11/23/2006 6:46:17 AM PST by Grampa Dave (The Bush haters on both sides have elected the government they have dreamed of!)
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To: newzjunkey

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffix_(name)

It's Wikipedia, so YMMV.

Basically, when Joe has a son and names him Joe, they are Joe Sr. and Joe Jr. Then when Joe Jr. has a son and he names him Joe, then Joe Sr, becomes Joe I, Joe Jr, becomes Joe II, and the new one becomes Joe III.

But when Joe I dies, the two remaining Joes can, at their option, become Joe Sr. and Joe Jr., or remain Joe II and Joe III.

Make sense?


24 posted on 11/23/2006 6:56:35 AM PST by savedbygrace (SECURE THE BORDERS FIRST (I'M YELLING ON PURPOSE))
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To: El Gato

My Winchester Model 70 in .270 is an assault rifle to most DemoSocialistMarxistLibs.....


25 posted on 11/23/2006 6:59:30 AM PST by Osage Orange (The old/liberal/socialist media is the most ruthless and destructive enemy of this country.)
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To: LibertyRocks; MizSterious; hispanarepublicana; indcons

Ping


26 posted on 11/23/2006 7:08:51 AM PST by maggief
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To: wimpycat

That's what the government wants everyone to believe who opposes what our government does.


27 posted on 11/23/2006 7:09:58 AM PST by mabelkitty
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

http://www.gazette.com/display.php?id=1326860&secid=1

November 22, 2006
Brother of University of Oklahoma bomber held for alleged threat

By DEEDEE CORRELL THE GAZETTE

A Colorado Springs man whose brother blew himself up outside the University of Oklahoma football stadium last year has been arrested for allegedly attacking his father and threatening to kill an FBI agent.

Thomas Carlisle Hinrichs, a 25-year-old Pikes Peak Community College student, believes federal officers have harassed him since the Oct. 1, 2005, suicide of his brother, Joel, according to court documents.

He allegedly considered waiting at the FBI office to ambush an agent and also thought about killing his father and high school principal.

Hinrichs was arrested Nov. 15 at Pikes Peak Community College’s Rampart Range
campus with a Romanian-made assault rifle, bulletproof vest, military helmet, hunting knife and ammunition in the trunk of his car, according to Colorado Springs police.

The arrest came after his father, Joel Henry Hinrichs Jr., told police Thomas had assaulted him and that he feared his son, whose mental health had deteriorated in the last year, would kill him.

“He believed his son was ‘going to blow,’” according to an arrest affidavit.

Hinrichs is being held at the El Paso County Criminal Justice Center in lieu of a $25,000 bond.

One year ago, Thomas’ younger brother, Joel “Joe” Henry Hinrichs III, detonated a bomb around his neck as he sat outside the packed football stadium where Oklahoma was playing Kansas State.

There was speculation that he was trying to set off the bomb in the stadium in a terrorist attack, but FBI investigators found no evidence of any ties to terrorist groups.

His family — which moved to Colorado Springs from Illinois about seven years ago — said Joel was severely depressed and lonely, as well as fascinated with ammunition and bombs.

“I was surprised a bit by the details, but on the whole I was not surprised,” Thomas Hinrichs told The Gazette in 2005. “He’d always been fascinated with artillery.

“He had real demons that were eating at him, and I told him some things I thought he needed to do, but he had such intense pride it didn’t register to him.”

The day after his brother’s suicide, FBI agents began investigating Thomas in Colorado Springs but closed the case six months later when they concluded Hinrichs had not made any specific threats.

However, an agent continued to monitor Hinrichs’ behavior on a monthly basis “to ensure that he was not a danger to himself or others,” according to the affidavit.

In July, Hinrichs left a phone message for an FBI agent, expressing his anger with the U.S. government and school system, which he blamed for his brother’s suicide, according to the affidavit.

He later told police he believed his brother killed himself “because of the abuse he endured while in high school,” according to court documents.

Joel Hinrichs graduated from Wasson High School in 2002. It wasn’t clear whether Thomas also attended Wasson; school offices were closed Wednesday, and records were not available, Colorado Springs School District 11 spokeswoman Elaine Naleski said.

Naleski said she didn’t know anything about alleged abuse, but Joel Hinrichs was known as a good student. School officials will look into the matter further, she said.

In October, Hinrichs allegedly left another message with the FBI, saying, “I will ... bury you, do you understand, I will bury you.”

On Oct. 31, he had an argument with his father, who said he confronted Thomas about his feelings that the world was out to get him. His son allegedly pushed him backwards in his chair, knocking him onto the floor. “This is what I do to people who lie,” he yelled, according to court documents.

The elder Hinrichs told police his son knows right from wrong but has mental health problems.

After receiving the father’s report, Colorado Springs police arrested Thomas at Pikes Peak, where he has been a student off and on for the past year.

He told police he was carrying a rifle because federal agents had harassed him and threatened his life. Although he denied planning to use the rifle against “any specific person,” he also said he was carrying the weapon because of an FBI agent named “Todd.” The affidavit did not give Todd’s last name because Hinrichs does not know it, said Jeff Dorschner, spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Denver.

“He stated that Todd should be hung from a tree and that he dreamed of seeing Todd hang from a tree,” according to the affidavit, which also read that Hinrichs daydreamed about lying in wait at the FBI office and shooting Todd when he arrived at work.

Hinrichs also considered killing his high school principal and his father, according to the affidavit.

Since high school, his parents required him and his brother to visit mental health professionals, who “stripped me of my right to defend myself and interact with other students.” He said he no longer is an American citizen and asked to be deported to China, according to police.

If convicted of the federal charge, he faces 10 years in prison.

It’s not clear whether Hinrichs will face charges in connection with his comments about killing his father and principal. “It’s part of the ongoing investigation,” Dorschner said.

CONTACT THE WRITER: 636-0285 or deedee.correll@gazette.com


28 posted on 11/23/2006 7:13:38 AM PST by maggief
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To: Rte66
"there's no such person as Thomas Hinrichs Sr. Something smells here."

You should know the media by now. They can't get anything straight.

29 posted on 11/23/2006 7:31:17 AM PST by Spunky ("Everyone has a freedom of choice, but not of consequences.")
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To: M Kehoe

Sounds like it.

7.62 X 54R


30 posted on 11/23/2006 7:33:02 AM PST by alarm rider (Not a democrat, not a republican, not a "libertarian".. A CONSERVATIVE.)
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To: Grampa Dave; PhiKapMom; LibertyRocks
"I wonder if we will ever know the full story of the extent of Islamofascism in Oklahoma from the Clintoons to the present day." I wonder about this, too. We sure know there is more to this story than what is "accepted" right now--and now the brother, too?
31 posted on 11/23/2006 8:08:32 AM PST by MizSterious (Anonymous sources often means "the voices in my head told me.")
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To: maggief
“He believed his son was ‘going to blow,’” according to an arrest affidavit.

Odd choice of words, given the family history...

32 posted on 11/23/2006 8:10:48 AM PST by MizSterious (Anonymous sources often means "the voices in my head told me.")
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To: Osage Orange
My Winchester Model 70 in .270 is an assault rifle to most DemoSocialistMarxistLibs....

My son's Super Soaker water gun would have been considered an assault rifle by the DemoSocialistMarxistLibs....

33 posted on 11/23/2006 8:23:06 AM PST by jellybean (Proud to be an Ann-droid and a Steyn-aholic)
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To: jellybean
LOL!!

Probably right........

34 posted on 11/23/2006 8:24:55 AM PST by Osage Orange (The old/liberal/socialist media is the most ruthless and destructive enemy of this country.)
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To: savedbygrace
I'll go with what's on the birth certificates.

My oldest sons has the "Jr" on it.
My oldest grandson has "III" on his.
Mine doesn't have "Sr" because my parents didn't know that I would be one.

35 posted on 11/23/2006 8:28:51 AM PST by ASA Vet (The WOT should have been over on 9/12/01.)
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To: MizSterious

As Bill Clintoon would say: Define" ‘going to blow,’” .

That is it for awhile.

My Honey Do List is very long.

Happy Thanksgiving to all!


36 posted on 11/23/2006 8:36:54 AM PST by Grampa Dave (The Bush haters on both sides have elected the government they have dreamed of!)
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To: ovrtaxt

Lets see. In addition to belting and blowing, the OU loser had tried to buy mass quantities of ammonia fertilizer at a feed store. He had ties with other muslims at the campus, perhaps even had a muslim roomate IIRC.

He had scads of explosives in his apartment which was quickly swept under the proverbial news rug.

Yep just a sad, depressed boy. Along with his brother (/ extreme sarcasm)


37 posted on 11/23/2006 8:39:31 AM PST by prairiebreeze (God bless our fine military and their families.)
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To: ovrtaxt
Thanks for the ping. A plot thickener for sure.
38 posted on 11/23/2006 9:11:25 AM PST by Oorang (Tyranny thrives best where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people - Alex Kozinski)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

bttt


39 posted on 11/23/2006 10:35:37 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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To: DeaconBenjamin2

They didn't report that he also had a rake and snow shovel in his garage, as well as some old paint cans.


40 posted on 11/23/2006 10:41:03 AM PST by snakedriver
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