OKLAHOMA BOMB SUSPECTS MOVED.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. The two men accused in the Oklahoma City bombing See Terrorism "The Oklahoma City Bombing" (Sidebar); Venue "Venue and the Oklahoma City Bombing Case" (Sidebar). were moved under cover of darkness and extremely heavy security early Saturday from Oklahoma to a federal prison in Colorado, where they will stand trial. Timothy McVeigh Timothy James McVeigh (aka Oklahoma City bomber April 23, 1968 – June 11, 2001), was a former American soldier who was convicted of eleven federal offenses and ultimately executed as a result of his role on the April 19, 1995, Oklahoma City bombing. and Terry Nichols Terry Lynn Nichols (born April 1, 1955) is a U.S. Army veteran who was convicted of being an accomplice of Timothy McVeigh, the man convicted of murder in the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S., April 19, 1995), which claimed 168 lives. , previously held at a federal prison in El Reno, Okla., arrived at 1:25 a.m. aboard a Department of Defense jet at Jefferson County Airport Jefferson County Airport may refer to:
Heavily armed guards sealed the airport area before their arrival. ``It looked like someone was going to invade us,'' said Joel Kingham of Stevens Aviation, located at the airport. Then, instead of being driven, McVeigh and Nichols were flown by helicopter to the medium-security Federal Correctional Institution in the Denver suburb of Englewood. When marshals arrived at the prison with the two men, the road was closed and more helicopters hovered overhead, said Richard Lane, an attendant at a nearby all-night service station. Details of the move and the conditions of their confinement were being kept confidential for security reasons, said a statement from prison warden W.A. Perrill and U.S. Marshal Tina Lewis Rowe. |
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