Wednesday, October 05, 2005

Forget Iraq, Jihadi suicide bomber in Oklahoma?

I know I am a little late on the subject, but hey, like a lot of folks, I heard the low pass about the shy, disturbed college guy that blew himself up outside a football game in Oklahoma, and just kept going.

Me, I thought, "Wow, good thing looser boy wasn’t a Jihadi – he could have hurt some folks….”

Well, I was reading Skippy’s girlfriend’s blog when BOOM! Where is the MSM? This, if it pans out, is HUGE!!! Cronyism at SCOTUS is fun and all, but come on!

Evidence is mounting that Joel Henry Hinrichs III, the University of Oklahoma student who blew himself up 100 yards outside the Oklahoma-Kansas State Football Game on Saturday night, had bigger plans. Joel tried to purchase ammonium nitrate at a feed store late last week.

Joel Hinrichs used the same explosive as the "shoe bomber", Richard Reid. The explosive, called "Mother of Satan", by Islamist extremists, has rarely been used in the US.

Technically, TATP is triacetone triperoxide. However, it's called the 'Mother of Satan' by Islamist extremists. Experts say it is made by mixing common household items such as drain cleaner and bleach to create a white powder with a strong smell.

It's so volatile that it can explode even if it's merely dropped. It can even explode spontaneously, experts say.

There have been very few reports of TATP being used in the United States; however, there have been more documented cases overseas -- including Richard Reid, who was arrested after he used TATP in his shoe and tried to light it on a flight.

The Pakistani roommate of a man authorities said died when he detonated an explosive device outside a crowded football stadium was led in handcuffs from a party shortly after Saturday's explosion, the head of an Islamic student group said.

Fazal M. Cheema, a finance major, shared a university-owned apartment with Joel Hinrichs III, 21, who died Saturday when a device attached to his body exploded as he sat on a bench outside George Lynn Cross Hall.

Cheema and three other Muslim students were led in handcuffs from a party by police after the blast, Ashraf Hussein, president of the Muslim Student Association, said Tuesday. They later were released.

NewsOK.com confirms that Hinrichs tried to buy a "large quantity of ammonium nitrate fertilizer" at a Norman, Ok., feedstore four days before the bombing and reports that Hinrichs attended the same Norman mosque once attended by Zacarias Moussaoui.

Cheema is "a really, really nice guy," Hussein said.
You can get even more goodies from GatewayPundit. I like the before and after pictures. Nice beard traitor.

I hope you meet 70 Virginians in the afterlife.

Of course he didn’t hurt anyone else. He was packing unstable explosive that went off early. Make no mistake, I will bet a P-3 guy’s per diem check that loserboy wanted to set himself off right in the middle of the crowd; and football seats would be easy to find the rest of season.

Round off your reading with a solid review and perspective from Commissar.

We dodged this one. Standby.

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