Did you hear about that deranged student from Univ of Oklahoma who blew himself up near the football game on Saturday? The incident was immediately declared a suicide by detached loner.
According to University of Oklahoma president David Boren, although Hinrich had “emotional difficulties in the past,” there is “certainly no evidence at this point which points to any other kind of motivation other than his personal problems.”
Veteran journalist and blogger Mark Tapscott isn’t buying it,
Suicide victims don’t normally accumulate a large amount of bomb-making material in their homes. People intent on blowing up other people do.
Second, the proximity to the stadium suggests Hinrichs’ target was the crowd, perhaps as people were leaving the game. But being an OU student, he presumably would have access to the student seating section and could have gone from that area to anywhere else in the crowd he chose.
What better place to detonate a bomb guaranteed to both kill and maim many, as well as incite terror and possibly a stampede that would kill and injure more people? My guess is Hinrichs was kept from reaching his target by a premature detonation.
Steve Warshawsky of The American Thinker,
For surely, in the absence of compelling evidence to the contrary, anyone who blows himself up in public near large crowds of people should be presumed to be a terrorist, not a bizarrely suicidal college student.
This is a fascinating story that is just starting to unfold. Once again, blogs are leading the charge.
UPDATE: Mark Tapscott has more on the OU Bomber
Despite an apparent clamp-down by the FBI on information about the death of Joel Hinnrichs, details are beginning to be surfaced by enterprising reporters in Oklahoma and elsewhere. Most important of these details is the fact Hinnrichs tried to buy ammonium nitrate from a Norman, Oklahoma, feed store. Ammonium nitrate is one of the prime ingredients in bombs like that used to blow up the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City in 1995.