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Archbishop Vincent Nichols is reviving and extending the practice of Forty Hours’ Devotion to the Blessed Sacrament in Westminster diocese: he plans to set up a rota whereby adoration moves from parish to parish, as it did in the old days.He’s also placing a renewed emphasis on the saying of the Rosary. He’s moved the celebration of Mass (albeit westward-facing) in his cathedral back to the High Altar. And there are reports that some gorgeous Roman vestments have been brought out of mothballs.Who would have thought it? Not me, 15 years ago, when the then Mgr Nichols was heavily into...

Convicted Killer Terry Nichols Says Low-Fiber Prison Diet Has Impacted Bowels The Smoking Gun Web site reports on a lawsuit against his jailers filed by Terry Nichols, the domestic terrorist who teamed up with Timothy McVeigh to murder 168 people in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. According to the court documents on the Smoking Gun Web site, Terry Nichols, 54, says the low-fiber prison diet has given him "chronic constipation, bleeding, hemorrhoids." This week, a federal judge rejected Nichols's bid for a preliminary injunction against the Bureau of Prisons. A lawsuit filed last month by Nichols is pending. To support...

Oklahoma City bombing co-conspirator Terry Nichols is complaining about his diet again — this time in a handwritten federal lawsuit seeking more than $2 million. He claims the food he gets in federal prison in Colorado violates his religious rights. He also claims the "indifference” of prison officials to his medical needs is cruel and unusual punishment. Nichols complained that he "is compelled to consume daily those unhealthy dead and refined foods that are abhorrent to plaintiff’s sincerely held religious beliefs causing him physical, mental and spiritual torment, and to sin against God.” He wrote that he sincerely believes...

The FBI is appealing an order that allows a Utah attorney to conduct taped depositions of Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols and a death-row inmate. Salt Lake City lawyer Jesse Trentadue believes that the two inmates have valuable information about his brother's death in a federal prison - and about the FBI's alleged withholding of many of the relevant documents requested in his Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) suit. Authorities say the August 1995 death of Kenneth Trentadue in a cell at an Oklahoma City federal prison was a suicide, but the inmate's family believes he was mistaken for...

A few short weeks ago, W&M quietly launched a “bias reporting system” and invited students to report anonymously their fellow students for remarks that offend them... Nichol to Supervise Secret Investigations of Students and Control of Anonymously Lodged Hearsay and Libelous Charges... In this new tattletale system, President Nichol is kept up to date on all secret investigations of offending remarks and controls the dissemination of any private data collected against any student or faculty member...

"Two dozen people cheated casinos in several U.S. states and Canada out of at least $3.3 million over five years by using technology and bribes to rig card games, federal prosecutors alleged in unsealed indictments." (snip) "The three indictments unsealed name 24 defendants, including the son of Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels, in an alleged racketeering enterprise dating from March 2002. The so-called Tran Organization allegedly was based in California."

The Brian Nichols case will stand still for almost six more months. That's six months the victims' families also will stand still, waiting for justice and for answers. March 11, 2005, was most likely the worst day of their lives — three women lost husbands, a daughter lost a mother and scores of others saw their lives changed forever. Brian Nichols (shown in court in February) is described by parents as remorseful, by jail officials as dangerous. But the six-month reprieve also gives Brian Nichols' parents time for hope — hope that their son will be allowed to plead guilty...

Legal ethics rules in all fifty states absolutely prevent lawyers from assisting their clients in the commission of criminal acts. Confidentiality and lawyer-client privilege rules have, everywhere that we know of, "crime-fraud" exceptions -- communications sent by the client to the lawyer to facilitate the commission of future crimes are NOT confidential. Treason, in every state in the land, is severely punishable, even by death. Break all these rules, and what do you get? About thirty years seems right. What you don't get is the paltry 28-month sentence for traitor-lawyer Lynne Stewart, who admits passing messages from a convicted terrorist...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - FBI evidence that helped convict Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols went on display Friday at the Oklahoma City bombing memorial, even as a congressman and others continue to raise questions about the 1995 explosion that killed 168 people. The display includes items ranging from mangled pieces of the truck used in the explosion to the automatic Glock handgun taken from McVeigh when he was arrested by a state trooper 90 miles from the bombing site. ``Hopefully, the exhibit will answer some of the questions the public has regarding the investigation,'' said Nancy Coggins, spokeswoman for the...

'Rita Cosby Live & Direct' for April 18 (Much snippage) Also, 11 years after the Oklahoma City bombing, stunning new claims that others may have played a role in the attack.  I sat down for an exclusive interview with Josh Nichols, the son of conspirator Terry Nichols, and he broke some news.  He says that his father will reveal who may have helped.  (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)COSBY:  Do you believe that there are several others involved beyond your father and Timothy McVeigh?  JOSH NICHOLS, SON OF OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING CONSPIRATOR:  Yes, and there was more people involved.COSBY:  More than just one?NICHOLS: ...

The McCurtain Daily Gazette today reports several former powerful and high ranking Justice department officials confirm there was a coverup of the investigation to the Oklahoma City bombing. Ten years after the Oklahoma City bombing, a published report says several former high ranking Department of Justice officials who want to remain anonymous claim there was a coverup of the attack which killed 168 persons. The story is carried by the McCurtain Daily Gazette in Idabel whose reporter J-D Cash has spent a decade investigating the bombing and its ties to Elohim City, a religious and white separatist compound in eastern...

Nichols' comments tie McVeigh firmly to Elohim City By J.D. Cash During a jailhouse interview Monday in Colorado with U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., Terry L. Nichols admitted traveling to the outskirts of Elohim City with Timothy McVeigh in October of 1993. The admission is the first time Nichols has confirmed McVeigh's ties to the terrorist training camp and should finally lay to rest years of speculation as to McVeigh's longstanding connections there. After the April 19, 1995, bomb-ing of the Oklahoma City federal building, this newspaper reported a phone call made from McVeigh's motel room in Kingman, Az., to...

Terry Nichols reveals involvement in blast By Nolan Clay The Oklahoman Copyright 2005, The Oklahoman Terry Nichols has admitted to the FBI and his family for the first time that he was involved in the Oklahoma City bombing. The convict, 50, started speaking to the FBI about his role in April and told his mother, sister and first ex-wife in June at the federal prison in Florence, Colo. "I didn't like it. Oh, God, I said, 'No way,'" his mother, Joyce Wilt, said. "I told him, 'You tell me the truth. I want the truth and I don't want anything...

OKLAHOMA CITY — Bombing conspirator Terry Nichols has told the FBI and his family that he was involved in the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building, according to a published report. Nichols, serving life prison sentences on federal and state convictions for the bombing that killed 168 people, started speaking to the FBI about his role in April at a federal prison in Florence, Colo., The Oklahoman reported in a copyright story in Sunday's editions. Nichols, 50, made similar disclosures to his mother, sister and first ex-wife last month. "I didn't like it. Oh, God, I said,...

After a meeting with convicted Oklahoma City bomber Terry Nichols, a U.S. congressman reaffirmed evidence of a Middle East connection to the 1995 attack. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif. – who has publicly vowed to address unanswered questions about the bombing – went with a staff aid to the super-maximum security prison in Florence, Colo., where Nichols is serving 161 consecutive life sentences, according to the Northeast Intelligence Network, a private, counter-terrorist research and investigation group. In his quizzing of Nichols, the congressman relied heavily on the investigative work of journalist Jayna Davis and her book, "The Third Terrorist: The Middle...

McVeigh defense document confirms explosives found at Nichols' home By J.D. Cash and Lt. Col. Roger Charles (U.S. Marine Corps, retired) McVeigh's admissions to the defense team a decade ago appear to confirm Terry Nichols' allegations that the bombers purchased explosives from Arkansas collector Roger Moore. (Contributed photo) <> Pushed to the point of anger and frustration, Timothy McVeigh told a member of his defense team that Arkansas gun collector Roger Moore sold him explosives before the Oklahoma City bombing, "Because he knew that I would put them to good use." The cold-blooded admission was made at the El Reno...

Atlanta Killings Suspect Pleads Not Guilty ATLANTA - Courthouse shooting suspect Brian Nichols pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges including four shooting deaths. A 54-count indictment has accused Nichols of murder, kidnapping, escape and other charges related to the March 11 shootings at the downtown Fulton County Courthouse. A judge and court reporter were killed inside a courtroom. Outside, a sheriff's deputy was killed and a federal agent was killed north of downtown. Nichols, 33, was arrested in suburban Gwinnett County 26 hours after the shootings started. He was on trial on a rape charge at the time of the...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Terry Nichols wants to reveal more about the Oklahoma City bombing, says a woman who released a letter in which the bombing conspirator accuses an Arkansas man of aiding in the plot. The letter to Kathy Sanders, which she released this week, alleges that gun collector Roger Moore gave explosives to bomber Timothy McVeigh and provided additional bomb components recently found in Nichols' former Kansas home. "He wants me to come to the prison and he wants me to tell his story," Sanders said Thursday. "He's a quiet and introverted little man. He doesn't want...

By Richard A. Serrano, Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON — After a decade of silence, Terry L. Nichols, who was convicted in the Oklahoma City bombings, has accused a third man of being an accomplice who provided some of the explosives used to kill 168 people at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building 10 years ago. Nichols, in a letter written from his cell at the U.S. government's Supermax prison in Colorado, said Arkansas gun collector Roger Moore donated so-called binary explosives, made up of two components, to bomber Timothy J. McVeigh that were used in Oklahoma City, as well as...

Wow! After 10 years, we may finally have hope that the truth about the OKC bombing will come forward. Jayna Davis has stayed on this, and now California Congressman Dana Rochbacher is all over it. Last night, Rohrbacher spoke on the floor and discussed disturbing information. He has been in touch with Jayna and finally read THE THIRD TERRORIST Here is the link for his full speech: CLICK AND THEN FOLLOW THE LINKS AT THE TOP LEFT TO ACCESS THE SUCCEEDING PAGES.I spoke to Jayna twice yesterday and again a short time ago. She wants our help to keep this...

During the 9/11 congressional hearings a year ago, there was a common question that the commissioners seemed to enjoy asking: Why was the U.S. not on “war footing” when the 9/11 attack occurred? If the government truly wanted to seek all information regarding intelligence failures leading up to 9/11, the Commission should have asked one of its own members about the Oklahoma City bombing that killed 171 lives a decade ago on April 19, 1995. In one of the biggest cover-ups in the history of the U.S., the federal government purposely avoided investigating incriminating evidence of a plot that pointed...

On the surface there would seem to be little to unite the Aryan racialists of the neo-Nazi movement with the terrorists of radical Islam. To the neo-Nazis, Muslims are almost all members of ``inferior`` races; and to the Islamic terrorists, the neo-Nazis are almost without exception either atheists or members of fringe quasi-Christian sects. But the reality is that there has been close cooperation between Muslim extremists and Fascists ever since the founding of the Nazi movement in the 1920`s. For all of their differences, Muslim extremists and Nazis have always been united by a common group of beliefs and...

Didn't see where another thread existed

One month after the April 19, 1995, Oklahoma City bombing (search) that killed 168 people, authorities demolished what was left of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building (search). Officials said the implosion was a necessary part of the psychological recovery for the citizens of Oklahoma City. But critics question the FBI’s tactics and argue the building came down too soon and the implosion is one piece of a government cover-up. Survivor VZ Lawton remembers the events after the attack. “I was in my office at my desk signing papers and all of a sudden the building began to shake,” said...

New Probe into the Oklahoma City Bombing (revised) Sign the Petition To: U.S. Congress (members specified in text) To: U.S. Congress (members specified in text) To: Arlen Specter Chairman, Senate Judicary Committee 711 Hart Building Washington, DC 20510 F. James Sensenbrenner Jr. Chairman, House Judiciary Committee 2138 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, DC 20515 Dana Rohrabacher Chairman, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations House Committee on International Relations Washington, D.C. Office 2338 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, DC 20515 We, the undersigned, believe that the federal government has not adequately disclosed all relevant information concerning the bombing of the Alfred E....

One by one, various federal and state agencies handed former hostage Ashley Smith reward checks for her heroism and bravery that ended the hunt for a fugitive wanted in four separate murders. During a ceremony inside the state Capitol Thursday, law enforcement officials along with Gov. Sonny Perdue praised Smith, 26, for her actions after being taken hostage by courthouse shooting suspect Brian Nichols on March 12. "We never counted on Ashley Smith. We never took that into consideration but, Ashley, with your calm demeanor and handling of the situation, with your cool headed reasoning, you were able to overcome...

Ashley Smith (R), who was held hostage by Atlanta courthouse murder suspect Brian Nichols, smiles while receiving her reward money from Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue (L) and other agencies which totalled $72,000 dollars at the Georgia State capitol in Atlanta, Georgia March 24, 2005. Smith lived in the Bridgewater apartments and talked Nichols into releasing her which led to his surrender in Duluth, Georgia on March 12, 2005. Nichols is a suspect in the Fulton county courthouse killings of a judge, a sheriff's deputy and a court clerk and a possible murder of a customs agent. REUTERS/Tami Chappell

Editor's note: When held hostage, Ashley Smith called upon God for help, and then used the Bible and her daily reading in "The Purpose Driven Life" to tell her captor, alleged Atlanta murderer Brian Nichols, about God’s grace. She read from Chapter 33, which focuses on "How Real Servants Act." Following is the chapter she used as a witnessing tool. LAKE FOREST, Calif. (BP)--We serve God by serving others. The world defines greatness in terms of power, possessions, prestige, and position. If you can demand service from others, you’ve arrived. In our self-serving culture with its me-first mentality, acting like...

ATLANTA - A girlfriend of courthouse killings suspect Brian Nichols gave birth to his child just three days before the rampage, and she said Nichols repeatedly told her that he wanted to be with the child. The mother's statements and transcripts from Nichols' rape trial are the most specific suggestion of a possible motive for last week's shooting spree. Prosecutors have suggested Nichols was worried about being convicted at the trial, but have not revealed a detailed motive. "I do know that he wanted to be with the baby. He did speak about it all the time," Sonya Meredith, the...

The man wanted for fatally shooting four people, inciting a day-long manhunt and holding a woman hostage for 10 hours went before a judge Tuesday morning regarding charges from a previous case. Scheduled to begin at 10 a.m., the hearing for 33-year-old Brian Nichols ended shortly after the hour. He stands accused of rape, aggravated assault with intent to rape, aggravated sodomy, false imprisonment, burglary and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, authorities said. Fulton County authorities have yet to charge Nichols with the four shooting deaths that occurred last Friday. Nichols appeared at a magistrate...

Two days after being held hostage in a killing spree that stunned metro Atlanta and much of the nation, Ashley Smith spent Monday discovering the perks--and the price--of sudden celebrity.National media outlets, film studios and book publishers--even a hostage training company--sought out the 26-year-old widowed mother to tell again the dramatic story of the seven hours she spent Saturday in her Duluth apartment with Brian G. Nichols. But with the national clamor to know the woman who said Nichols called her "an angel sent from God" comes a dark side. Smith is an angel with a troubled past--a record of...

You probably heard about the case of Brian Nichols, the violent rapist, who murdered one cop, a judge and a court stenographer and shot in the face another deputy in a dramatic break from custody in Atlanta. It was a big story. It was a big shock to everyone that a prisoner of his reputation could pull off a stunt like this resulting in the deaths of three – and probably a fourth person, a Customs agent, found dead in his wake the next day. It shouldn't be a shock. It was all quite predictable because of what sounds like...

Ashley Smith, the former hostage of Brian Nichols, the man suspected of the Atlanta courthouse murders, will be on Hannity in less than an half hour.

If you are law enforcement type you can probably stop reading now unless you like being reprimanded by a dumb old civilian. While everyone else is crowing how great the police and feds did in aprehending Brian G. Nichols in Duluth, GA, I am vomitting. I am disgusted. Let me share my thoughts and then see what you think. Exhibit A: Sheriff's Deputy Cynthia Hall, 51. Slammed up against a wall by Brian Nichols, weapon taken and shot in the face. Brilliant. Exhibit B: Her superiors. What were they thinking? Leaving someone who looks like she belongs tending day care...

Here we go folks! Starting with Myron Freeman! Dissing Task Force Rank & File doing job

Just two days after moving into her Duluth apartment, Ashley Smith is up late unpacking. At about 2 a.m. Saturday the 26-year-old runs out of cigarettes and heads to a local convenience store to buy a pack. When she returns, she sees a man in a truck was waiting outside her door. She had seen the man earlier but didn't think much of it. She gets out of her car and shuts the door. She hears the door on the truck close at about the same time. Fear rises in her. Holding her key in her hand, she makes her...

What a wonderfully civilized society we have become--or have we? Maybe we have simply become weak, confused, ignorant, and self-loathing--at the expense of right and wrong! A while ago, a brutal savage from Georgia named Nichols raped and sodomized a young lady who once had trust in him. An overly civilized jury was unable to decide his guilt or innocence, after a smooth talking high-minded defense attorney, undoubtedly provided by the public defenders office at tax payer expense, managed to convince half of the jurors that he might have been innocent, the trial ending in a hung jury. So Nichols...

ATLANTA -- A woman who says she was attacked by Brian Nichols in Buckhead Friday night says police didn't believe her when she told them the assailant was the courthouse murder suspect. Iman Adan said a man approached her near her Lenox Road apartment and forced her to go inside. Her boyfriend was in the apartment, and he struggled with the suspect, who pistol-whipped him and fled, Atlanta Police spokesman Sgt. John Quigley said. Quigley said Adan was upset because she told police from the start that she thought her attacker was Nichols. But she did not pick him out...

What happpened Friday and Saturday, step by step Published on: 03/12/05 Based on law enforcement and eyewitness reports, the following events occurred on Friday and Saturday: Friday, before 9 a.m. Judge Rowland Barnes, 64, leaves his home in College Park with his wife, Claudia, an administrative assistant for another judge. The couple arrive at the old Fulton County Courthouse on Pryor Street in downtown Atlanta. Judge Barnes proceeds to his eighth-floor courtroom to hear a civil case. Brian G. Nichols, 33, is taken from the Fulton County Jail in northwest Atlanta to Fulton's new Justice Tower downtown. The tower backs...

Geraldo interviewed Brian Nichols' lawyer at 0730h on 03/12/05 for a Fox News segment. The lawyer's name is Barry Hazen The lawyer said early in the spot that he and Brian got along well. Geraldo asked the lawyer why Nichols was upset with the lawyer and why/how this could happen. I was aghast that the them of Geraldo's question was that the JUDGE had upset Nichols and caused him to go 'off'... Image #1Image #2Image #3 Here's the rest of the transcript of the interview that I captured... Sat Mar 12 07:32:15 2005 There were a few incidents. The biggest...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- Terry Nichols admitted during plea negotiations in his state trial last year that he played a major role in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, a newspaper reported Sunday. Nichols admitted to prosecutors in a signed statement that he helped Timothy McVeigh make the bomb that killed 168 people in the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in 1995, The Oklahoman reported. McVeigh was put to death for masterminding the attack. "McVeigh told me what to do," Nichols said in the statement, which was prepared with the aid of his attorneys. Nichols, 49, is serving life sentences without...

Terry Nichols confessed during secret plea negotiations last year that he had a major role in the deadly 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. He also stated that he knew of no other conspirators in the attack that left 168 dead, including 19 children. "I am unaware as to who was involved in the planning besides McVeigh,'' he stated. However, Nichols refused to disclose where he hid stolen blasting caps left over from the making of the bomb. Nichols, 49, never testified at his 1997 federal trial or this year's state trial. His attorneys claimed he had no part in the attack...

Short audio segment here. Click on "Judge Won't Dismiss Nichols State Case" to listen. http://www.npr.org/rundowns/segment.php?wfId=1846269

Speaking publicly for the first time, Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols on Monday asked survivors and families of victims for forgiveness and offered to correspond with them if they felt it would help them cope with the 1995 bombing that left 168 people dead.... My heart truly goes out to all the victims, survivors and anyone who has been affected by the Oklahoma City bombing," he said. "Words cannot adequately express the sorrow I have had over the years of the grief that so many have endured and continue to suffer. I am truly sorry for what occurred." Nichols...

Nichols Asks Forgiveness After Sentencing 6 minutes ago By TIM TALLEY, Associated Press Writer McALESTER, Okla. - Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols addressed a court for the first time Monday, asking for forgiveness and offering to help victims' families with the healing process as he was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole on 161 state charges. "My heart truly goes out to all the victims and survivors and to everyone who was affected by the Oklahoma City bombing," Nichols said. "Words cannot adequately express the sorrow I have felt over the years for the grief they have...

A report on KTOK Radio a few minutes ago indicated the jury in the Terry Nichols case is having difficulty reaching a unanimous decision on Nichols' penalty for the Oklahoma City bombing. The judge admonished the jury that if they could not decide, he would rule whether Nichols should spend life in prison with or without parole. KTOK's news director -- and Nichols family and supporters -- took this to mean the death penalty has been ruled out by this judge. Nothing follows.

Recently translated documents captured by U.S. forces provide new evidence of a direct link between Saddam Hussein's regime and the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States. Rosters of officers in Saddam's Fedayeen list Lt. Col. Ahmed Hikmat Shakir, who was present at the January 2000 al-Qaida "summit" in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, at which the 9-11 attacks were planned, the Wall Street Journal reports. The Fedayeen was the elite paramilitary group run by Saddam's son Uday, which was deployed to do much of the regime's dirty work. The U.S. has never been sure Shakir was at the Kuala...

Oklahoma City bomber Terry Nichols met with World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef in the Philippines before he and Timothy McVeigh carried out their plot, investigative reporter Jayna Davis said Wednesday. "Terry Nichols and Ramzi Yousef met personally in the Philippines on the island of Mindanao in the early 1990s to discuss, of all things, bombmaking," Davis told ABC Radio Network host John Batchelor. On Wednesday, an Oklahoma jury returned a 161 count murder verdict against Nichols. He is expected to face the death penalty. But the bizarre Yousef-Nichols tie-in did not come up in the trial. Davis said she...

McALESTER, Okla. (AP) - The jury in Terry Nichols' state murder trial got the case Tuesday after defense attorneys argued that he was set up to take the blame for the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. Jurors were to begin deliberating Wednesday morning. The two-month trial has included testimony from about 250 witnesses. If Nichols is convicted, the trial would move into a penalty phase where jurors would decide whether he should face the death penalty or life in prison. Nichols, 49, already is serving a federal life sentence for involuntary manslaughter and conspiracy in the deaths of eight federal law...

Prosecutor: Nichols Did More Than McVeigh 12 minutes ago By TIM TALLEY, Associated Press Writer McALESTER, Okla. - Terry Nichols contributed more to plans to bomb the Oklahoma City federal building than executed bomber Timothy McVeigh did, a prosecutor said Monday during closing arguments in Nichols' state murder trial. Nichols' attorneys have argued that McVeigh set Nichols up to take the blame for the work of other, unidentified coconspirators in the Oklahoma City bombing plot. But prosecutor Lou Keel said Nichols was heavily involved in the plans from the beginning. "Nichols was the biggest contributor," Keel said. "There's a landslide,...