Waiting For The Other Shoe To Drop

An interesting story - OU Bombing Wasn't Suicide . I really am not a conspirist. I tend to think the simplist explanation is the best one but I also know it is foolish to discount fact when determining what version of a story is accurate. Every story has variables, and not every variable carries the same amount of 'weight.' For instance, if someone is reporting about a car accident, the color of shirt worn by the liable party is not usually a material fact but is a light-weight variable. Another example would be the decorative graphics adorning the vehicle doors. But, what if the color of the shirt is brown, and the graphics on the car he drove into the line of people outside a bar resembled representations of the symbol of the Arian Nation.

In the above scenario, a thinking person might read about the story and wonder if all the pertinent information is known - has all the evidence been sifted through? The shirt color and the car graphics may be nothing if you add to the story ice on the roadway, the man's employer was UPS, and he was a member of a Celtic study group. You see, the symbol mentioned earlier was a Celtic Cross, which is used by a British Arian organization. The reason for the collision, was first unknown, then took on a more sinister feel with a little more information, and now, though not totally settled, is looking more like an actual accident - an unplanned event. The ultimate determination may come several months down the rode once all witnesses and survivors are interviewed, any forensic evidence evaluated, and the event is reinacted.

So, a kid blew himself up outside an OU game. You know the drill by now; information trickles in - some official, some not, some factual, and some speculation. Last I heard, this young man was despondant and took his own like - end of story. I did have that little niggling in the back of my mind, the one that says I need to connect some dots, the one that reminds me to be persceptive without prognosticating. " I wonder what new info the investigation will uncover."

News Flash - the Norman, OK police just stated "NORMAN - A Norman police bomb expert said Tuesday he does not believe University of Oklahoma student Joel Henry Hinrichs III committed suicide by blowing himself up outside a packed football stadium.

"I believe he accidentally blew himself up," Sgt. George Mauldin said.

Mauldin said Hinrichs, 21, an engineering student, had two to three pounds of triacetone triperoxide, commonly known as TATP, in a backpack in his lap when it exploded Oct. 1.

When asked if he believed Hinrichs meant to enter the stadium with the explosives, Mauldin replied, "I don't believe he intended for an explosion to occur at that spot (on the park bench)."

"Some of us will forever wonder what he (Hinrichs) was doing at that time, at that place," Police Chief Phil Cotten said.

Hinrichs was sitting on a park bench 173 yards from the OU stadium during the second quarter of OU's night game against Kansas State when the TATP inside his backpack detonated..." see above link to story from The Oklahoman

The plot thickens...