Wednesday, October 05, 2005

Oklahoma: The Terror Plot Thickens

Continuing its coverage of the October 1st bombing incident in Norman, OK, the Northeast Intelligence Network further reports:

In a story that received virtually no media attention since the Saturday “lone suicide bombing" at the O.U. football stadium packed with 84,000 fans, details are emerging that a larger-scale Islamic terrorist operation was to revisit America's heartland for the second time in a decade. (...)

Among the information received from its sources:

In the style reminiscent of the blast at the Murrah building that killed 171 people on 19 April 1995, it was also confirmed that HINRICHS attempted to purchase a large quantity of the fertilizer ammonium nitrate, the very same compound that was used in the Ryder truck bomb just miles from where the Murrah building once stood, and a favorite bomb component used by Middle Eastern terrorists.

Plus this analysis by one source based on evidence found thus far:

”It appears that HINRICHS was part of a larger plan that included members of an Islamic terrorist cell based in and around the Norman and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma area. As a Caucasian, it was much easier for him to obtain the materials needed to create a large bomb, act in concert with members of the local terrorist cell, and strike when relative calm was the word of the day,”

The same source also said:

Federal authorities are investigating HINRICH’S roommates, friends and companions, some from Pakistan, who were on a watch list of potential terrorists in that area. Sources of funding and financing are also under investigation, and arrests are very possible. Thankfully, more than a few things went wrong, but the failed plan left HINRICHS holding the bag in the end – literally,” added this source. “Otherwise, we could have had a bombing on the scale of Oklahoma City in 1995.”

As always, readers are urged to read the whole report at NIN via the link above.

With all of this information and analysis pouring in from law enforcement sources, it's troubling that the mainstream media (MSM) is virtually ignorant of the investigation. The significance of the evidence surrounding the "suicide" bombing seems to be completely lost on them.

Is this evidence that, perhaps, the MSM has allowed itself to become irrelevant in terms of gathering important information and relaying it to the citizenry who truly must know of any threats to their safety from terrorists?

For all its monetary, human and technological resources, the MSM seems to be falling behind civilian investigators, reporters and bloggers, all of whom are without a doubt giving this matter its fully due treatment and providing all relevant information to all who care to find it via the blognet.

Now what?