I think this merits more scrutiny...

... don't you?

University of Oklahoma President David Boren seems determined to have everybody believe Joel Henry Hinrichs III was merely a disturbed young man who decided to commit suicide by blowing himself up within 100 yards of a stadium containing 84,000 screaming fans of Sooner football.

Sorry, I don't buy it, at least not yet. Here's why: First, The Daily Oklahoman is reporting authorities found a large cache of bomb-making materials in Hinrichs' apartment. The cache is so big that the Oklahoman reported one of the officials on the scene estimated a full 24 hours would be required to cart away all of the material.

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. Add the proximty of the Micro-Biology building and you may have the potential for a kind of bio-bomb that could have guaranteed utter chaos in and around the stadium.

Is there an investigative journalist out there who doesn't find this story intriguing?  Michelle Malkin does and has linked to this report containing relevant tid-bits:

Sources confirmed Tuesday night that at least one of the components in the bomb used by Joel Henry Hinrichs III Saturday night was a product called TATP.

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.

Once again, where is the MSM? 

Oh yea, they're busy looking into the terrorizing notion that an evangelical christian might become the next Supreme Court Justice (setting aside my own personal reservations as to the appointment for the moment).

Sigh.

UPDATE: Via the InstaPundit, comes Jason, at Generation Why?, who has more:

1. The FBI and Joint Terrorism Task Force are the lead agencies on the case.

2. The bomber had inquired about buying "a significant amount of ammonium nitrate, the primary ingredient used in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing".

3. He apparently attended the same mosque as Zacarias Moussaoui.

4. His roomates had islamic fundamentalistbeliefs.

5. Investigators found a huge cache of weapons in his apartment. (enough that police were overheard saying it would take 24 hours to remove all of it).

6. He was "bright and lonely"... just the kind of kid terrorists like to recruit.

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Comments

[Pete]

Rick, I hadn't heard about the bombing in Oklahoma. Definitely deserves more investigation. There's another story emerging about Caribou Coffee, of all places, that has to do with terrorism that deserves some more looking into as well. I deceminated some preliminary info. on the story at Pete's Home (on the Brutally Honest blog roll) under the heading "Something to Keep an Eye On".

Pete