- 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.
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- 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.
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- Langan, who led a gang of neo-Nazis that robbed at least
22 banks in seven Midwestern states, said he will also tie the suspects
to at least one other crime in which the government alleges Nichols was
involved.
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- Nichols, convicted of federal bombing charges and sentenced
to life in prison, is charged with 161 counts of first-degree murder in
Oklahoma for the April 19, 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal
Building. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.
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- Nichols' attorney Brian Hermanson has consistently refused
to comment on the case, citing a judge's gag order.
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- In a telephone interview from a federal facility in Jonesville,
Va., Langan told the newspaper he will tie bombing coconspirator Timothy
McVeigh and the bomb plot to several men associated with Elohim City, a
white supremacist enclave in eastern Oklahoma.
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- ATF informant Carol E. Howe testified at Nichols' federal
trial in Denver that she saw McVeigh walking with one of the men at Elohim
City before the bombing.
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- Howe has also disclosed conversations she says she participated
in where two of the men discussed plans to attack federal installations
in Oklahoma.
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- The government has said it investigated connections between
McVeigh and persons in Langan's group but linked only Nichols and McVeigh
to the Oklahoma City bombing.
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- McVeigh was convicted of federal bombing charges and
sentenced to death. He was executed in 2001.
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- Langan, who met with an attorney for Nichols on Tuesday,
is also expected to testify that blasting caps and other evidence seized
by the FBI after gang members were arrested would link elements of the
ARA to the Oklahoma City bombing as well as a gun robbery in November 1994
near Hot Springs, Ark.
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- The FBI has alleged that Nichols robbed gun collector
Roger Moore to help finance the bomb plot. Langan is expected to testify
that members of his gang committed the robbery, not Nichols.
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