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> David Boren Undermines Investigation of University of Oklahoma Bomb

30 October 2005, 00:11

I’ll be the first one to admit I love a good conspiracy theory as much as the next person. But at a certain point my logic refuses to take a back seat to flights of fantasy. I’m a soldier just returning from Iraq, and a student at the University of Oklahoma. I heard the percussion of the explosion, and viewed the results the following Monday. In viewing the after effects of the explosion, I saw the bomb didn’t leave a crater. There was no damage to vegetation, but the bench itself may have protected it. The smallest mortar leaves a visible blast area, and yet there was no site damage. I didn’t see any chips of concrete.
I took the explosion personally, returning from Baghdad I thought I had left that stuff behind me. Logic makes me think if this young student was a terrorist, then his destination wasn’t the stadium. The payload wasn’t sufficient. His destination would have been the bus itself. Sitting there waiting for the maximum number of people to board. A remote detonator may have caused the premature explosion. OU uses alot of the wireless spectrum. Of course these are all educated guesses. Maybe I am getting my money’s worth of education.
The whole idea of Boren being scared about the stadium cost is unfounded, and probably just your subjective opinion of Boren. So here is mine in return, I think Boren understands that Sooners are Southerners first, and students second. There would have been a backlash of students against Muslims. Like there was in Murray Bombing. Norman is the cultural center of Oklahoma, an intellectual oasis. If Boren was protecting anything, I think that would be it.
P.S. I think the education, recourses, and personal experiences provided by University of Oklahoma dictated the tuition increase. The students produced here are on par with IVY league schools.