Suicide bomber outside packed stadium -Maybe Hinrich was having a 'bad beard day?"
Reader comment on item: Hinrichs Case: Law Enforcement Asks the Wrong Question

Submitted by Ben van de Polder (United States), Jul 19, 2006 at 11:16

Until Hinrich there have been no cases of any suicide bombings or bombers in the United States. The method itself implies Middle Eastern terrorist connections - let alone the findings of Arabic bomb making plans o his computer.

Law enforcement (one of whom noted his beard and made an Islamist connection which was later negated)would prefer to have us think that Hinrich could have blown himself up due to distress over a 'bad beard day', outside a stadium packed with thousands of people , rather then infer terrorist intent.

As Secretary of State Donald Rumsfeld pointed out during Baghdad looting "stuff happens".

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