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UNITED STATESOklahoma bombing murder trial opens Terry Nichols went on trial for his life March 22 in McAlester, Oklahoma, for his part in the Oklahoma City bombing and was alternately portrayed as an eager participant in the attack, and a fall guy in a conspiracy wider than the government has acknowledged. Nichols hated the U.S. government and worked hand-in-hand with Timothy McVeigh in assembling and detonating the "huge, monstrous bomb," the prosecution said during opening statements in the state murder trial. Nichols' defense countered that McVeigh and other conspirators were responsible for the bombing, and that Nichols was manipulated by McVeigh to take the blame. Nichols, 48, is serving a life sentence on federal charges for the deaths of eight federal law officers in the April 19, 1995, blast that killed 168 people. The state charges are for the 160 other victims and one victim's fetus.
The Japan Times Weekly: March 27, 2004 |
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