Nothing To See Here - Move Along

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[smoothsailing]

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.

[Milhous]

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.

The answer is elementary my dear. Olds Media fraudcasters only celebrate successful acts of terrorism.

[Cicero]

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

This is a new angle to me. Were the authorities already tracking Hinrich, and maybe don't want to admit that they screwed up once again, as they did when they let the OKC bombing happen?

Good article.

[the invisib1e hand]

Too many of us were blind in 2000

Well, yes and no. I work with many people who knew that, after 1993, the WTC would be a target again. Anyone with a New Yorker's sense knew it.

The exchange where I work set up a backup operation after 1993 which they moved smoothly into and resumed operations the week following 9/11, because they were prepared, and they were prepared because they knew it was a possibility. A number of people I work with either left the Towers or never entered them to begin with that morning because they knew immediately what was going on, because they knew it was a possibility.

So not everyone had their eyes closed. Pity that the leadership did for so long.

[penelopesire]

Great Post. I have pinged the OU Bombing master pinger(indcons).Good for Malkin! I hope this gets some press.

[smoothsailing]

The awareness and preparedness of you and your co-workers is to be applauded,tih.

But Malkin did not say "everyone" was unaware, she said "too many of us were". That's hard to disagree with.

[the invisib1e hand]

But Malkin did not say "everyone" was unaware, she said "too many of us were". That's hard to disagree with.

Well, I pointed how some people were quite aware. Anyone who wanted to be, was. The one's who should have been, chose not to be.

[smoothsailing]

The authorities were on this guy for some reason, that's for sure.

[TheCrusader]

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

I didn't know this fact before reading the article. It's interesting that this young guy wanted to commit suicide by blowing himself up with a bomb he already had in his possession, but apparently wanted to make sure he was really, really dead by blowing himself up again with an amonium nitrate bomb. That's quite a 'suicide' plan.

Anyway, most Americans don't believe the ridiculous spin the media put on this (likely) terror attack. What I don't understand, however, is why Michelle didn't also attack the closed-lips government along with the lying-lips media.

[smoothsailing]

I didn't realize there was a OU bomber ping list.Thanks for giving them a heads up!

[krunkygirl]

save

[smoothsailing]

Good link! I remember reading that Will piece when he wrote it back in April.

[bitt]

bump for a good one.

[When do we get liberated?]

He was spotted a day before trying to buy the fertilizer. So he was on the radar at that point. When the defecation hit the mechanical low air pressure actuator, they jumpewd on leads.

[When do we get liberated?]

CRAP!! some of my best posts are ruined by a lack of spweeeelll chek!

[doug from upland]

MIDI - END OF THE INNOCENCE

For several years they sang his song…he was a hero to their cause
In denial many lived…he placed himself up above the laws
He knew all of the right things to say…down through…hell and then back believers would go
In eight long years he's done to us…more damage than you know

For his neglect we would finally pay the price…the count's three thousand dead
We know just where to place the blame…it is on Bill Clinton's head
When the Cole was hit and brave men died…there is no doubt that he hadn't cried
He looked at his polls and sighed
Now this is the end…this is the end…of his legacy

At OKC he saw his chance…he needed to divide us all
He would create the vast right wing…and his mind-numbed fools would pick up the ball
So we'd fight among ourselves…and the…grand scheme had worked, he got his way
With our attention diverted he…would gut the CIA

For his neglect we would pay the price…the count's three thousand dead
We know just where to place the blame…it is on Bill Clinton's head
When the Cole was hit and brave men died…there is no doubt that he hadn't cried
He looked at his polls and sighed
Now this is the end…this is the end…of his legacy

We endured a psychopath…who saw himself as the Rockstar Prez
We had sent the warnings out…watch what this man does, not what he says

For neglect we paid the price…when those great buildings fell with many dead
And we know just where to place the blame…it's on Bill Clinton's head
When the Cole was hit and brave men died…there is no doubt that he hadn't cried
He looked at his polls and sighed
Now this is the end…this is the end…of his legacy

[smoothsailing]

Yeah,Yeah,minstrel boy,so where's my damn CD? ;o)

[weegee]

She forgot the muslim sniper outside of the CIA offices during Clinton's watch.

[Calpernia]

>>>>This is a new angle to me. Were the authorities already tracking Hinrich, and maybe don't want to admit that they screwed up once again, as they did when they let the OKC bombing happen?

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

[smoothsailing]

She sure did! That was Langley,right? Some people got hit,I can't remember if anyone was killed.