Suicide Solution

October 3rd, 2005 at 2:45 pm by Preston Taylor Holmes

Oklahoma suicide bomber
turns out to be a disturbing
hybrid of Tom Hanks
and Abraham Lincoln

This story hasn’t gotten near the coverage it deserves. It was briefly mentioned on Fox News Saturday night, then I heard little else about it. Michelle Malkin, however, has a ton of information on the story.

If you haven’t heard, an emotionally disturbed young man, which would, incidentally, accurately describe all young male radical islamists, blew himself up Saturday night while 80,000+ people looked the other way at a football game.

A University of Oklahoma student with “emotional difficulties” was identified Sunday as the person who apparently committed suicide near a packed football stadium using an explosive attached to his body.

The remains were believed to be those of Joel Henry Hinrichs III, according to Salvador Hernandez, special agent in charge of the FBI in Oklahoma.

University President David Boren has said the blast was an apparent suicide.

“We know that he has had what I would call emotional difficulties in the past,” Boren said. “There is certainly no evidence at this point which points to any other kind of motivation other than his personal problems.”

Hinrichs, 21, was killed when the explosive device detonated Saturday evening near Oklahoma Memorial Stadium, where more than 84,000 people were watching a football game between the Oklahoma Sooners and Kansas State.

It’s going to be interesting to find out if there is any islamic component to young Joel’s sudden self-imposed combustion once the investigation is complete. Or perhaps the authorities will sweep that under the rug as they did another Oklahoma bombing years ago…

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6 Responses to “Suicide Solution”

1. Smantix Says:
   October 3rd, 2005 at 6:53 pm

   Let me be the first to blame rightwing hate radio.

2. Watcher Says:
   October 4th, 2005 at 3:04 am

   Good call.

3. Doug Says:
   October 5th, 2005 at 3:22 am

   Oklahoma suicide bomber turns out to be a disturbing hybrid of Tom Hanks and Abraham Lincoln

   I can kinda see Hanks…
   My first impressions were Doogie Howser and Screech Powers.

4. Doug Says:
   October 5th, 2005 at 3:36 am

   Well, crap. I guess they wised up to that. In that case, then I guess I mean to say Doogie Howser and Screech Powers

5. Smantix Says:
   October 5th, 2005 at 7:12 am

   Maybe Balthazar Getty, Nick Berg and Lincoln.
   /obligatory Getty’s-Berg Address.

6. Preston Taylor Holmes Says:
   October 5th, 2005 at 8:14 am

   Getty’s-Berg-Address. You are wrong for that.

   Though, perhaps it was Screech, Doug. Then it would have qualified as a tragedy.