As I have said before here, and here there are too many unanswered questions to let this investigation drop. Today it has been a month since engineering major Joel Hinrichs detonated a homemade bomb near Memorial Stadium, where 84,000 fans were watching the hometown Sooners take on Kansas State. U of O President David Boren and the FBI quickly reported that Hinrichs' acted along and that this was a random suicide.
Erick Stakelbeck, Washington Terror Analyst, on CBN reports:
Mark Tapscott of the Heritage Foundation remarked, “There are about 30,000 suicides in America--unfortunately--every year. And you can go back a decade, and you will not find a single one of those suicides who blew themself up in proximity, close proximity, to 84,000 people at a football game.”
New information has come to light in addition to facts covered previously, (questionable jihadist literature found in room; convicted 9/11 plotter Zacarias Moussaoui attended the mosque when he lived in Norman; Hinrichs attempt to buy ammonium nitrate fertilizer at a local feed store just days before killing himself ( the same deadly material Timothy McVeigh used to blow up the Oklahoma City Federal Building in 1995); additional explosives found in his apartment; the Department Of Justice has sealed the search warrant for Hinrichs' apartment). Neighbors have been interviewed who saw Joel Hinrichs at the mosque in Norman. Hinrichs' father denied he attended a mosque and also denied his son had converted to Islam.
When we think of terrorism in the United States, we usually think of New York City or Washington D.C. But what about the heartland? Erick Stakelbeck gives the following incidents which should make all of us very concerned.
"At UCLA, authorities discovered what they called "an improvised explosive device." Near the University of California's San Diego campus, authorities found a homemade chemical lab in the bathroom of a student's apartment. The student killed himself as police attempted to enter the residence.
At Prairie View A & M in Texas, a student was arrested when authorities found bombmaking materials in his dorm room. He is also charged with trying to buy a handgun with counterfeit money.
And at Georgia Tech, in what officials now say was a prank, a student planted three explosive devices on campus.
As for the University of Oklahoma, it has tightened security at all home games in the wake of Hinrichs' death.
The Oklahoma City Memorial is a daily reminder of the deadly effects of domestic terrorism. And for many here, questions still linger about Hinrichs' death. Was it just a lone suicide? Or was it part of a larger conspiracy to bring terrorism back to America's heartland?"
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