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FBI Probes McVeigh Omaha Connection Was Oklahoma City bomber involved in robbery spree? The FBI will examine files in three cities, including Omaha, to determine if Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh was connected to a group involved in bank robberies during the 1990s. The Associated Press reported last week that FBI agents investigating the white supremacist Aryan Republican Army collected witness statements, blasting caps, and a driver's license that raised questions about whether the bank robbery gang might have assisted McVeigh's plot. The FBI is also looking at files in Philadelphia and Cleveland, where agents helped solve robberies linked...

FBI Suspected McVeigh Link to Robbers JOHN SOLOMON Associated Press WASHINGTON - The FBI believed Timothy McVeigh tried to recruit additional help in the days before the deadly 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and gathered evidence that white supremacist bank robbers may have become involved, according to government documents never introduced at McVeigh's trial. The retired FBI chief of the Oklahoma City investigation, Dan Defenbaugh, said he was unaware of some evidence obtained by The Associated Press and that the investigation should be reopened to determine whether the robbery gang was linked to McVeigh. The evidence never shared with Defenbaugh's investigators...

A convicted neo-Nazi bank robber is expected to name several other suspects in the Oklahoma City bombing when he testifies in the trial of Terry Nichols. That stunning revelation came after an attorney for Nichols spent 5½ hours in prison Tuesday with Peter K. Langan Jr., an inmate serving a life sentence for bank robbery and weapons violations. In a late night phone call from a federal facility in Jonesville, Va., Langan confirmed to this newspaper that he has been placed on the witness list for the upcoming mass-murder trial of Terry Nichols. That trial is set to begin with...

Editor’s note: David Paul Hammer, an inmate on federal death row, provided a manuscript to this newspaper several months ago with the agreement we would not publish excerpts from it without his permission. Last week Hammer authorized us to release details of his manuscript, saying he expects a book to be published soon and his death sentence to be carried out next year at Terre Haute, Ind.) “I’m forgoing the rest of my appeals. They’ll set my execution for sometime in February or March. I’m not mad, just tired and my health is bad. My book is finished, and soon...

Sketch could link McVeigh with Aryan Nations’ plot By J.D. Cash and Lt. Col. Roger Charles (U.S. Marine Corps ret.) Copyright 2003 by McCurtain Daily Gazette After years of gathering dust in an attorney’s Nashville, Tenn., basement, a potentially explosive piece of evidence has been discovered that may link executed bomber Timothy McVeigh with a group of rabid neo-Nazi bank bandits that once operated from Elohim City – a Christian Identity 1,000-acre enclave and reputed terrorist training camp near Muldrow. Despite vehement denials by top-level FBI and Justice Department officials that they possessed evidence linking neither McVeigh nor Terry Nichols...