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| U. of Oklahoma Blast Is Apparent Suicide |
| 2005-10-02 |
| Ok, this seems more like a suicide than an homicide bombing; still, I wonder what was the religion of the suicidee, me being a bigot and all, and if he acted as a copycat? NORMAN, Okla. - 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. |
| Posted by:anonymous5089 |
| #9 maybe a perfectionist? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-10-02 21:45 |
| #8 Reports of a second explosive device take this out of the suicide category for me. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2005-10-02 21:15 |
| #7 I like the idea of a radio setting off the bomb. Makes sense, and a big college game would have a cluster of TV trucks pumping out a lot of RF. I suspect we'll be told this fellow just meant to commit public suicide, but we'll find out later he's a ROPer, made jihadist noises, and had promised to make the news in a big way. He just fucked up prematurely detonated. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2005-10-02 16:37 |
| #6 Yah, we've got to give the Authorities time to come up with |
| Posted by: Phil Fraering 2005-10-02 15:55 |
| #5 There's too many differing opinions Mrs D. That's one of the reasons I say we ought to wait 48 hours. One thing is for sure - with 84,000 people at the match, there's going to be plenty of stories floating about. |
| Posted by: Tony (UK) 2005-10-02 15:49 |
| #4 Whbat was the gist? |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2005-10-02 15:40 |
| #3 I think the 48 hour rule needs to be applied here - there are too many stories going around at the moment. The freeper thread is currently over 1900 comments long! |
| Posted by: Tony (UK) 2005-10-02 15:39 |
| #2 Did OU loose again? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-10-02 13:16 |
| #1 I find this story both unsatisfying and incomplete. First they claim it was a suicide. Then they claim that the swat team "Detonated Explosives" at the site of the blast. These two reports indicate a partial explosion, leading me to think that it went off prematurely and was an incomplete explosion. That just plain does NOT add up to Suicide. I remember reading of radio that was used to blanket potential bombing targets to prevent "Boomers" from getting near enough to carry out their Bomb plans, this is what I think really happened. First, the only safe way to carry explosives is to keep the detonator away from the main charge until needed. I think a radio "Blanket" set off his detonator as he was approaching the Stadium, and before he had connected it to the main charge. They ARE correct, it was indeed a "Suicide" but didn't go off quite as planned. I think that a Suicide Bomber failed. Good. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2005-10-02 12:58 |