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Earlier in the week Nichols was charged with "malicious damage" to the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building and with aiding and abetting McVeigh. According to an official affidavit presented last week, Nichols began stockpiling large amounts of fertilizer last September in several lockers near his home in Herington, Kansas. When agents searched Nichols' home after he turned himself in to police on April 21, they found 60-ft. primadet cords with blasting caps, fuel meters and a receipt for fertilizer that had McVeigh's fingerprints on it. During the search, Nichols allegedly asked the agents not to "mistake household items...
...thatNichols, brother of bombing suspect Terry Nichols, wasconnected to the Oklahoma City bombing. However, U.S. District Judge Paul Borman ordered Nichols released after determining that thegovernment had not presented sufficient evidenceto justify holding him. A little more than a month after the bombing, the remains of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building will be demolished tomorrow in Oklahoma City. Demolition crews say it should only take a few minutes for the little more than 100 pounds of explosives they've placed in the building to bring it down. There is no official word on what will be done with...
...whether they were armed. In the end, investigators wonder if McVeigh settled on the building in Oklahoma City because it was a "target of convenience" -- closer than Omaha to McVeigh's presumed base of operations in Junction City. Perhaps it was also easier to park in front of the Murrah building than the federal building in Dallas. Whatever the bombers' calculations, investigators on the scene have felt their grief turn to anger and grim resolve. "I'm not too old for this one," says a veteran of the World Trade Center investigation. "I'm not going to retire until...
...this was a different, more insidious brand of terror. While the bomb that destroyed the Murrah federal building was massive and crude, the device sent through the Sacramento mail was small and carefully put together-and designed to blow away a specific human target. It bore the telltale signs of a mysterious terrorist who has been eluding law-enforcement agencies for nearly two decades, in the longest-running unsolved serial-bombing case in fbi history. Soon a letter sent by the culprit to the New York Times confirmed what investigators feared: Murray was the latest victim of the shadowy figure...
That is an ominous statement coming after the destruction of the Murrah building in Oklahoma City. The authorities' greatest fear is that the Unabomber may want to prove his prowess. If he felt inspired and challenged by the Oklahoma bombing, the search for the serial killer has become all the more urgent. --Reported by Jordan Bonfante/Sacramento, J. Howard Green/ San Francisco, Jenifer Mattos/New York and Elaine Shannon/Washington