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OKLAHOMA CITY - Oklahoma taxpayers spent almost $4.2 million to provide a defense for bombing conspirator Terry Nichols, paying for such things as books, seminars, lawn care, coffee sweetener and an alarm system. Expenses filed by court-appointed defense attorney Brian Hermanson included $28.05 so Nichols could read the book, "The American Terrorist," an account of the life of Oklahoma City bombing mastermind Timothy McVeigh. A $300 claim was filed for lawn care costs for one of the defense attorneys, whose $750-a-month rental house in McAlester was paid for by taxpayers during Nichols' trial. Coffee sweetener that cost $3.99 was among...

A Salt Lake city attorney Jesse Trentadue says two teletypes sent by the FBI director show that an informer had infiltrated a paramilitary training compound in Oklahoma known at 'Elohim City' and was there in April 1995 when one of the bombing suspects called looking for co-conspirators.Trentadue believes at one time the FBI was investigating whether a gang that robbed a string of midwestern banks to fund attacks on the government was connected to the bombing.The accusation made in the lawsuit alledges the FBI is violating the federal Freedom of Information Act by refusing to turn over the documents.The name...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Just weeks before Timothy McVeigh bombed the Oklahoma City federal building in 1995, U.S. intelligence and law enforcement received several warnings that Islamic terrorists were seeking to strike on American soil and that a likely target was government buildings, documents show. The information, though it was never linked to McVeigh, was stark enough that the Clinton administration urged stepped up security patrols and screening at federal buildings nationwide, including those in Oklahoma. The government, however, didn't fortify buildings with cement barriers like those hurriedly installed after McVeigh detonated his explosive-laden truck at the curb of the Murrah...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- Terry Nichols admitted during plea negotiations in his state trial last year that he played a major role in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, a newspaper reported Sunday. Nichols admitted to prosecutors in a signed statement that he helped Timothy McVeigh make the bomb that killed 168 people in the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in 1995, The Oklahoman reported. McVeigh was put to death for masterminding the attack. "McVeigh told me what to do," Nichols said in the statement, which was prepared with the aid of his attorneys. Nichols, 49, is serving life sentences without...

Recently translated documents captured by U.S. forces provide new evidence of a direct link between Saddam Hussein's regime and the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States. Rosters of officers in Saddam's Fedayeen list Lt. Col. Ahmed Hikmat Shakir, who was present at the January 2000 al-Qaida "summit" in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, at which the 9-11 attacks were planned, the Wall Street Journal reports. The Fedayeen was the elite paramilitary group run by Saddam's son Uday, which was deployed to do much of the regime's dirty work. The U.S. has never been sure Shakir was at the Kuala...

Oklahoma City bomber Terry Nichols met with World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef in the Philippines before he and Timothy McVeigh carried out their plot, investigative reporter Jayna Davis said Wednesday. "Terry Nichols and Ramzi Yousef met personally in the Philippines on the island of Mindanao in the early 1990s to discuss, of all things, bombmaking," Davis told ABC Radio Network host John Batchelor. On Wednesday, an Oklahoma jury returned a 161 count murder verdict against Nichols. He is expected to face the death penalty. But the bizarre Yousef-Nichols tie-in did not come up in the trial. Davis said she...

NPR's Wade Goodwyn reports on evidence there were more conspirators involved in the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Nichols is on trial in McAlester, Okla., on state charges stemming from the largest act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history.

Federal Inmate Says He Will Name Bombing Conspirators POSTED: 3:32 PM CST January 28, 2004 OKLAHOMA CITY -- A federal inmate who is expected to testify at bombing conspirator Terry Nichols' murder trial will name other suspects in the Oklahoma City bombing, according to a published report. Peter K. Langan Jr., serving a life prison sentence for bank robbery and weapons violations, told the McCurtain Daily Gazette for a copyright story Wednesday that he would tie several men to the bombing conspiracy. Langan, who led a gang of neo-Nazis that robbed at least 22 banks in seven Midwestern states, said...

Just one month after an al Qaeda recruiter was ordered to contact former U.S. servicemen, both Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols relocated to areas where Osama bin Laden's terror network was actively recruiting. In December 1992, al Qaeda operative Clement Rodney Hampton-El was given a list of former U.S. servicemen to recruit as volunteers by a Saudi-linked cleric based in the Philippines, according to testimony in his 1995 trial. (previous story) Shortly after Hampton-El was given the list, McVeigh quit his job and moved to Florida, where al Qaeda was creating a new financing network. In January 1993, Nichols traveled...

Sketch could link McVeigh with Aryan Nations’ plot By J.D. Cash and Lt. Col. Roger Charles (U.S. Marine Corps ret.) Copyright 2003 by McCurtain Daily Gazette After years of gathering dust in an attorney’s Nashville, Tenn., basement, a potentially explosive piece of evidence has been discovered that may link executed bomber Timothy McVeigh with a group of rabid neo-Nazi bank bandits that once operated from Elohim City – a Christian Identity 1,000-acre enclave and reputed terrorist training camp near Muldrow. Despite vehement denials by top-level FBI and Justice Department officials that they possessed evidence linking neither McVeigh nor Terry Nichols...

Defense lawyers will be allowed to call witnesses associated with the Elohim City white supremacist compound in the state murder trial of Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols, a judge ruled Tuesday. Judge Steven Taylor rejected a prosecution motion to disallow 30 witnesses, including some federal government witnesses and various people associated with white supremacist groups and the Elohim City compound. Persistent allegations have tied Timothy McVeigh to Elohim City and other loosely affiliated white supremacist groups over the last several years. A series of reports by Associated Press reporter John Solomon earlier this year said that the FBI failed...

Just days after the Oklahoma City bombing, the INS deported Osama bin Laden's brother-in-law Mohammed Jamal Khalifa, even though the FBI had evidence that linked the Saudi businessman to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the 1995 Bojinka plot and Oklahoma City. Not only was Khalifa deported to Jordan, where he was subsequently freed, but the U.S. government let him leave with potentially incriminating evidence and cleared his record of terrorism charges. Evidence in the FBI's possession at the time potentially implicated the Saudi businessman in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the airliner bombing plot and the Oklahoma City...

Witness recalls renting truck to Murrah bomber 2003-05-08 By Nolan Clay The Oklahoman Retired Kansas body shop owner Eldon Elliott turned red and trembled with emotion Wednesday as he testified about learning he’d rented the truck used in the Oklahoma City bombing. “I tried to forget it,” he admitted later in his testimony. [...] The truck used in the April 19, 1995, bombing was picked up two days before from Elliott’s Body Shop in Junction City, Kan. [...] Elliott recalled two meetings with (Timothy McVeigh). He said the customer (McVeigh) paid $280.32 in cash for the 20-foot truck on April...

Nichols called senator 2 days before bombing OKLAHOMA CITY -- Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols called former Sen. Nancy Kassebaum Baker's office two days before the bombing to complain about the deadly end of the Branch Davidian standoff in Texas, an aide to the former senator testified today. "He was very stern and told us about his thinking on the matter," said Lee Ellen Alexander, who worked for the former Kansas senator. She said Nichols also complained about gun laws and former Attorney General Janet Reno. Alexander heard days later that Nichols, who was living in Kansas at the...

McVeigh's guilt deemed certain Letter suggesting false testimony didn't lessen his case, Ashcroft says05/03/2003 Associated Press AUSTIN – There is no doubt about the guilt of executed Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft said Friday, despite the disclosure of a letter sent to the Justice Department two weeks before the execution that suggested a prosecution witness gave false testimony. Prosecutors didn't disclose the false testimony allegations to Mr. McVeigh's lawyers before the execution and later tried to recover all copies of the letter in exchange for a lawsuit settlement. "The United States of America went way...

The FBI illegally seized a package sent between two Associated Press reporters working on an investigative series about the Oklahoma City bombing. The package contained documents related to Ramzi Yousef's al Qaeda cell in Manila, according to the Associated Press. The package contained a laboratory report on items seized from a Manila apartment where Yousef and his conspirators, including Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, plotted a September 11-style attack on America. The package was part of reporter John Solomon's investigative series on possible warnings given to the U.S. about a terrorist attack sponsored by Islamic militants just prior to the Oklahoma City...

On the same day recently the New York Times and the Washington Times ran stories about the management challenges facing FBI Director Robert Mueller. The New York Times obtained internal Bureau documents that show Mueller talking tough to his managers and agents about the need for reform. The story has Mueller warning that he won’t tolerate "bureaucratic intransigence" and quotes senior Justice officials lauding his performance thus far. But the Washington Times focused more on Mueller’s actions, especially on the sensitive issues of ethics and retaliation against internal critics. On that score, Mueller doesn’t fare quite so well. For example,...

Will John Muhammad the racist, American-hater, be put on the fast track to the death chamber just like Timothy McVeigh the racist, American government-hater? Who wants to bet that he will NOT?

Stephen Jones, attorney for convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, wrote extensively in his writ of mandamus to the federal district court in Denver about the connections between McVeigh accomplice Terry Nichols, the racist Aryan Nation and Iraq. Today, the Aryan Nation leaves little doubt about its support for the Iraqi nation. In a "Letter of Support From Aryan Nations to Saddam Hussein," Lt. Joshua Caleb Sutter, state representative for Pennsylvania of the Aryan Nations/Church of Jesus Christ-Christian, suggests that the ills of the world, and in particular the United States, are a result of the "Zionist Jews and their...

Gov't Had Missile in Okla. Building Thursday September 26, 2002 7:50 AM WASHINGTON (AP) - When Timothy McVeigh blew up the Oklahoma City federal building, the government had a TOW antitank missile stowed in a locker several floors above the daycare center. The missile, about 3 feet long, actually had an inert warhead and only a small amount of rocket fuel, and the government says it did not contribute to the massive explosion that day. Instead, it tumbled into the rubble of the Alfred P. Murrah building. But its discovery prompted an evacuation that slowed rescue efforts April 19, 1995,...