Sent via Federal Express from AP reporter Jim Gomez in the Philippines to Washington AP reporter John Solomon, the 8-year-old FBI lab report was intercepted by the Customs Service, which has the legal right to examine packages sent from overseas at the point they arrive in the United States. Customs said the package had been selected for routine inspection.
The package was sent to the FBI in Washington after an FBI agent reviewed the document and said it contained some information that should not be made public.
In January, the AP was tipped that the package had been intercepted.
The lab report, which had been discussed in open court in two legal cases, dealt with materials seized from an apartment in the Philippines rented by convicted terrorist Ramzi Yousef.
The two AP reporters were working on terrorism-related stories.
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dealt with materials seized from an apartment in the Philippines rented by convicted terrorist Ramzi Yousef
Terry Nichols was in the Philippines on the day of the fire in the Yousef/Khalid Mohammed apartment where the materials were seized.
After the arrest of Murad and the seizure of the materials in January 1995, Nichols immediately returned to the U.S. Yousef fled the Philippines at the same time and was later captured.
A sworn statement by Edwin Angeles places Nichols in a meeting with Yousef and Murad where the subject was bomb making. Months after providing a videotaped depostion and a sworn affidavit on the Nichols/Yousef meeting, Edwin Angeles was assasinated.