Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This is the bomb," she said...
...employee of Target Analysis on Mass. Ave. reported that at 11:00 a.m. someone called him at work and said there was a bomb in the building and that he should exit the building...
That didn't turn out to be quite true. As the interview was under way, other FBI agents conducted the search and brought the results back to the interrogators. Bags of ammonium nitrate--the fertilizer used to make the bomb--were found in Nichols' home. Confronted with this, Nichols said he planned to sell the ammonium nitrate at gun shows in small quantities. Asked why he hadn't mentioned it earlier, he said it was because "it would make me look guilty to a jury...
Nichols told the agents that he and McVeigh had talked about various bombmaking techniques, but he also made a point of saying that McVeigh was capable of building a bomb on his own. Later on, when the questioning came back to that drive on April 16, Nichols said that the talk turned to the future. "You will see something big in the future," Nichols said McVeigh told him. "What are you going to do? Rob a bank?" Nichols asked. "Oh, no," McVeigh replied. "I got something in the works." (Rules on hearsay kept these statements out of McVeigh's trial...
...case against Nichols is not airtight, since no one has ever come forward saying they saw Nichols and McVeigh actually building the bomb. Still, the prosecution will offer a variety of evidence linking Nichols to the bombing: detonation cords and blasting caps, as well as the ammonium nitrate, found at his home; plastic drums found there that match fragments at the bomb scene; storage bins rented by Nichols that held bomb components. On top of all that, there are Nichols' inconsistent, inaccurate statements to the FBI. "In my eyes, I did not do anything wrong," he told the agents...