I Find This Information Disturbing

This past Saturday, 21-year-old Joel Henry Hinrichs III of Colorado Springs, CO, blew himself up on the campus of the University of Oklahoma as a football game with 80,000 fans was just finishing up. Committing suicide with a bomb is certainly an unusual way to commit suicide, though it is common among Islamic terrorists. That's why this incident raises red flags all over the place.

Speaking strictly "off the record," the officials stated that they recovered "a significant amount" of Islamic "Jihad" type literature, some possibly written in Arabic, along with the suspect's computer. Some of the documentation included material on how to construct bomb-making vests.

Further reports by the same officials indicated that the bomb was detonated prematurely when the suspect was either arming a bomb vest or backpack, which contained TATP, a homemade explosive. TATP (triacetone triperoxide) is a very potent but relatively easily manufactured explosive compound that was used in the July London bombings. It is important to note that TATP has been cited in numerous Jihad bomb-making manuals.

The same officials, requiring anonymity as the investigation is ongoing, continued to confirm that "other un-detonated explosive devices were found in the area cordoned off by police and federal officials."

Flopping Aces has more on the developing situation.

Technorati: terrorism, suicide bomber.