The Discerning Texan
All that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing.
-- Edmund Burke
-- Edmund Burke
Sunday, October 02, 2005
Detonation near OU Football game -- Islamofascist attack on US soil gone bad?
Yes, this is the week of the Texas-Oklahoma game, always a big deal in the DT household. Last night however, there was something much more ominous and serious: an explosion at the University of Oklahoma in a building adjacent to a stadium filled with 85,000 Sooner fans for the OU-Kansas State game. The Dallas morning paper ruled this as a "suicide", but things are often not what they first appear to be...
With a hat tip to Cao's Blog, the Northeast Intelligence Network (affiliated with US Homeland Security) is reporting that other bombs were found in adjacent buildings, which could be suggestive of a larger plot, which could have had a much more horrific and tragic ending:
During the Oklahoma University and Kansas State Football game Saturday night, a large explosion occurred outside of the stadium packed with 84,000 football fans that was heard up to four miles from the stadium.
The blast happened shortly after 7:30 p.m. CDT on the South Oval, across the street from the Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium, near the George Lynn Cross Botany-Microbiology building the oval's east side, and near an area where numerous busses to transport people from the stadium were parked.
A number of agencies were on-site, including Oklahoma University Police, the Norman, Oklahoma Police, the Cleveland County Sheriff's Office, Oklahoma Highway Patrol, state medical examiner's office, as well as the FBI and Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
According to one local law enforcement official who spoke to the Northeast Intelligence Network at 3:45 a.m. EDT on the strict condition of anonymity, “other un-detonated explosive devices were found in the area cordoned off by police and federal officials.” The police are working on one theory – and at present it remains a theory - that the so-called “suicide-bomber” was attempting to attach bombs to the buses parked in the area when one of the a bomb detonated prematurely.
The gender, race and ethnic origin of the “suicide bomber” has yet to be publicly released, although authorities on-site believe they know the identity of the bomber. According to the officer who spoke to the Northeast Intelligence Network, officials are “not yet ruling out the involvement of others,” but declined to elaborate any further.
Details are sketchy so far, but it appears based on this report that as someone was attempting to build and activate several bombs--for subsequent attachment to waiting busses outstide the stadium for later detonation--one of the bombs may have detonated by mistake, hence the mistaken denotation of "suicide". But the permature detonation may have saved a lot more lives. Stay tuned, this story could get a lot more interesting. This may have been a barely-foiled Islamofascist attack on US soil. In short, we might have just gotten very lucky.
It is extremely fortuntate that no innocent football fans or players were injured in this possible terrorism attempt. Rivalries aside, if this plot had been successful, the results could have been as horrific or more so than the bombing of the Oklahoma city federal building: Those after-game buses are always packed. We should all be very thankful that the bomb exploded when and where it did. But this should also alarm all thinking Americans: this terror war is far from over, the Islamist murderers are still trying to kill us here at home.
(Of course, it goes without saying that this incident must not be allowed to distract any Texas fans or the Longhorn team from the real business of this week: kicking some Sooner butt in the Cotton Bowl! Hook 'em!)
UPDATE: Michelle Malkin is covering this story as well. And she deserves a hat tip for her link to Flopping Aces, who has a lot more background about the suspicious circumstances surrounding this bombing:
Why would someone commit suicide outside of a packed stadium? Was this guy intending on setting this thing off inside the stadium?
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — One person was killed in an explosion near a packed football stadium at the University of Oklahoma on Saturday night in what authorities said appeared to be a suicide.The blast, in a traffic circle about 100 yards from Oklahoma Memorial Stadium, could be heard by some in the crowd of 84,000, but university President David Boren said no one inside the stadium was ever in danger."We are apparently dealing with an individual suicide, which is under full investigation," Boren said in a statement. There was no information about the person who was killed, and no reports of any other injuries.A police bomb squad detonated explosives found at the site of the blast. The area near the stadium was searched by bomb-sniffing dogs.
Jaclyn Hull, an OU freshman who left the game shortly before the explosion, said she saw "a little bit of smoke, about as much as you would see coming up from a grill."
Officers cordoned off an area west of the stadium after the explosion and nobody was allowed out of the stadium for about a half-hour after the blast, which occurred shortly before 8 p.m., about halftime of the Sooners' game against Kansas State. The game continued.
Based on the reports from the MSM (and we know how reliable those can be) there seems to be much more to this then meets the eye. This sounds like any number of suicide bomber stories we hear about in Iraq where the bomb goes off too early. He is close to location that holds many people compacted together to maximize casualities but the device goes off early. I have a feeling this will turn out pretty big fellas. How many more devices were found around the area?
No way this guy was getting into the stadium with these devices so it appears he was waiting for the game to end and the crowds to exit.
Shall I throw in another twist? :
19. In or about early July 2000, Mohammed Atta (#11) and Marwan al-Shehhi (#175) visited the Airman Flight School in Norman, Oklahoma.
34. On or about September 29, 2000, ZACARIAS MOUSSAOUI contacted Airman Flight School in Norman, Oklahoma using an e-mail account he set up on September 6 with an internet service provider in Malaysia.
45. On or about February 26, 2001, ZACARIAS MOUSSAOUI opened a bank account in Norman, Oklahoma, depositing approximately $32,000 cash.
46. Between on or about February 26, 2001, and on or about May 29, 2001, ZACARIAS MOUSSAOUI attended the Airman Flight School in Norman, Oklahoma, ending his classes early.
48. In or about March 2001, ZACARIAS MOUSSAOUI joined a gym in Norman, Oklahoma.
53. In or about June 2001, in Norman, Oklahoma, ZACARIAS MOUSSAOUI made inquiries about starting a crop dusting company.
65. Between on or about July 29 and August 2, 2001, in Norman, Oklahoma, ZACARIAS MOUSSAOUI made several telephone calls from public telephones to a number in Duesseldorf, Germany ("German Telephone # 2").
Early reports from the media:
NORMAN -- An explosion near the University of Oklahoma's Memorial Stadium killed one person Saturday night, officials said. Sgt. Gary Robinson of the OU Police Department confirmed there had been one fatality after an explosion that occurred about 7:20 p.m. during the second quarter of the OU-Kansas State football game. The identity of the person who was found dead outside the botany-microbiology building was not immediately available. Law enforcement officers cordoned off an area west of the stadium and were using bomb-sniffing dogs and a robot to search the area. Authorities were not allowing anyone to exit the stadium.
And this one:
Officers cordoned off an area west the stadium after the explosion and nobody was allowed out of the stadium immediately after the blast, which occurred shortly before 8 p.m., about halftime of the game. People were allowed out about 30 minutes later. About 9 p.m. a police bomb squad detonated explosives found at the site of the blast.
Another:
Sgt. Gary Robinson said he could not say whether officials believed any act of terrorism was indicated. "I have no information on whether it is or isn’t," Robinson said. "Right now we do know there was a device that exploded. We don’t know what the device is, what the make of the device is, what compound was used. We do know we have at least one fatality. We don’t know the gender of the person.
And the latest one I could find:
One person is dead and five others are injured following an explosion on the campus of the University of Oklahoma. The blast occurred not far from a football stadium that was packed with fans cheering on the Oklahoma Sooners. Spectators reported hearing the blast during the game but no one was hurt in the stadium. There are reports that the blast was part of a suicide plot. The victim's name has not been released and the cause of the explosion is unknown.
With a hat tip to Cao's Blog, the Northeast Intelligence Network (affiliated with US Homeland Security) is reporting that other bombs were found in adjacent buildings, which could be suggestive of a larger plot, which could have had a much more horrific and tragic ending:
During the Oklahoma University and Kansas State Football game Saturday night, a large explosion occurred outside of the stadium packed with 84,000 football fans that was heard up to four miles from the stadium.
The blast happened shortly after 7:30 p.m. CDT on the South Oval, across the street from the Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium, near the George Lynn Cross Botany-Microbiology building the oval's east side, and near an area where numerous busses to transport people from the stadium were parked.
A number of agencies were on-site, including Oklahoma University Police, the Norman, Oklahoma Police, the Cleveland County Sheriff's Office, Oklahoma Highway Patrol, state medical examiner's office, as well as the FBI and Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
According to one local law enforcement official who spoke to the Northeast Intelligence Network at 3:45 a.m. EDT on the strict condition of anonymity, “other un-detonated explosive devices were found in the area cordoned off by police and federal officials.” The police are working on one theory – and at present it remains a theory - that the so-called “suicide-bomber” was attempting to attach bombs to the buses parked in the area when one of the a bomb detonated prematurely.
The gender, race and ethnic origin of the “suicide bomber” has yet to be publicly released, although authorities on-site believe they know the identity of the bomber. According to the officer who spoke to the Northeast Intelligence Network, officials are “not yet ruling out the involvement of others,” but declined to elaborate any further.
Details are sketchy so far, but it appears based on this report that as someone was attempting to build and activate several bombs--for subsequent attachment to waiting busses outstide the stadium for later detonation--one of the bombs may have detonated by mistake, hence the mistaken denotation of "suicide". But the permature detonation may have saved a lot more lives. Stay tuned, this story could get a lot more interesting. This may have been a barely-foiled Islamofascist attack on US soil. In short, we might have just gotten very lucky.
It is extremely fortuntate that no innocent football fans or players were injured in this possible terrorism attempt. Rivalries aside, if this plot had been successful, the results could have been as horrific or more so than the bombing of the Oklahoma city federal building: Those after-game buses are always packed. We should all be very thankful that the bomb exploded when and where it did. But this should also alarm all thinking Americans: this terror war is far from over, the Islamist murderers are still trying to kill us here at home.
(Of course, it goes without saying that this incident must not be allowed to distract any Texas fans or the Longhorn team from the real business of this week: kicking some Sooner butt in the Cotton Bowl! Hook 'em!)
UPDATE: Michelle Malkin is covering this story as well. And she deserves a hat tip for her link to Flopping Aces, who has a lot more background about the suspicious circumstances surrounding this bombing:
Why would someone commit suicide outside of a packed stadium? Was this guy intending on setting this thing off inside the stadium?
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — One person was killed in an explosion near a packed football stadium at the University of Oklahoma on Saturday night in what authorities said appeared to be a suicide.The blast, in a traffic circle about 100 yards from Oklahoma Memorial Stadium, could be heard by some in the crowd of 84,000, but university President David Boren said no one inside the stadium was ever in danger."We are apparently dealing with an individual suicide, which is under full investigation," Boren said in a statement. There was no information about the person who was killed, and no reports of any other injuries.A police bomb squad detonated explosives found at the site of the blast. The area near the stadium was searched by bomb-sniffing dogs.
Jaclyn Hull, an OU freshman who left the game shortly before the explosion, said she saw "a little bit of smoke, about as much as you would see coming up from a grill."
Officers cordoned off an area west of the stadium after the explosion and nobody was allowed out of the stadium for about a half-hour after the blast, which occurred shortly before 8 p.m., about halftime of the Sooners' game against Kansas State. The game continued.
Based on the reports from the MSM (and we know how reliable those can be) there seems to be much more to this then meets the eye. This sounds like any number of suicide bomber stories we hear about in Iraq where the bomb goes off too early. He is close to location that holds many people compacted together to maximize casualities but the device goes off early. I have a feeling this will turn out pretty big fellas. How many more devices were found around the area?
No way this guy was getting into the stadium with these devices so it appears he was waiting for the game to end and the crowds to exit.
Shall I throw in another twist? :
19. In or about early July 2000, Mohammed Atta (#11) and Marwan al-Shehhi (#175) visited the Airman Flight School in Norman, Oklahoma.
34. On or about September 29, 2000, ZACARIAS MOUSSAOUI contacted Airman Flight School in Norman, Oklahoma using an e-mail account he set up on September 6 with an internet service provider in Malaysia.
45. On or about February 26, 2001, ZACARIAS MOUSSAOUI opened a bank account in Norman, Oklahoma, depositing approximately $32,000 cash.
46. Between on or about February 26, 2001, and on or about May 29, 2001, ZACARIAS MOUSSAOUI attended the Airman Flight School in Norman, Oklahoma, ending his classes early.
48. In or about March 2001, ZACARIAS MOUSSAOUI joined a gym in Norman, Oklahoma.
53. In or about June 2001, in Norman, Oklahoma, ZACARIAS MOUSSAOUI made inquiries about starting a crop dusting company.
65. Between on or about July 29 and August 2, 2001, in Norman, Oklahoma, ZACARIAS MOUSSAOUI made several telephone calls from public telephones to a number in Duesseldorf, Germany ("German Telephone # 2").
Early reports from the media:
NORMAN -- An explosion near the University of Oklahoma's Memorial Stadium killed one person Saturday night, officials said. Sgt. Gary Robinson of the OU Police Department confirmed there had been one fatality after an explosion that occurred about 7:20 p.m. during the second quarter of the OU-Kansas State football game. The identity of the person who was found dead outside the botany-microbiology building was not immediately available. Law enforcement officers cordoned off an area west of the stadium and were using bomb-sniffing dogs and a robot to search the area. Authorities were not allowing anyone to exit the stadium.
And this one:
Officers cordoned off an area west the stadium after the explosion and nobody was allowed out of the stadium immediately after the blast, which occurred shortly before 8 p.m., about halftime of the game. People were allowed out about 30 minutes later. About 9 p.m. a police bomb squad detonated explosives found at the site of the blast.
Another:
Sgt. Gary Robinson said he could not say whether officials believed any act of terrorism was indicated. "I have no information on whether it is or isn’t," Robinson said. "Right now we do know there was a device that exploded. We don’t know what the device is, what the make of the device is, what compound was used. We do know we have at least one fatality. We don’t know the gender of the person.
And the latest one I could find:
One person is dead and five others are injured following an explosion on the campus of the University of Oklahoma. The blast occurred not far from a football stadium that was packed with fans cheering on the Oklahoma Sooners. Spectators reported hearing the blast during the game but no one was hurt in the stadium. There are reports that the blast was part of a suicide plot. The victim's name has not been released and the cause of the explosion is unknown.
