According the Times, Nichols said FBI tests of bomb components found about a month ago at his home in Herington, Kan., would support his claim that they came from Moore and Moore's girlfriend, Karen Anderson. "That case of nitromethane came directly from Roger Moore's Royal, Arkansas, home, and his prints should be found on that box and/or tubes, and Karen Anderson's prints may be there as well," Nichols wrote.
The prosecution theory has been that Nichols' robbed Moore's home and stole the materials.
During Nichols' state murder trial last year, prosecutors said Nichols stole an estimated $63,000 in weapons and other items from Moore's home, that were then sold to help finance the terror plot. Nichols' attorneys maintain the robbery was staged and that McVeigh, who knew Moore from a gun show and had stayed in his home, helped plan it.
McVeigh was in Ohio on the day of the robbery. Moore's alias was Robert Miller. A fake driver's license in that name was found with property belonging to white supremacist bank robbers.
The government contended at McVeigh's trial that Moore was robbed at his Hot Springs, Ark., home in November 1994, and the proceeds were used to fund the Oklahoma City bombing.
Terry Nichols never did like the Government's portrayal of him as the person who robbed Moore at gunpoint. Before his state trial, his lawyers contended white supremacist bank robbers were responsible for the robbery.
Defense attorneys plan to call witnesses, including a federal death row inmate, to show that Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh conspired with others, including a group of white supremacist bank robbers, to plan and execute the bombing. They hope to convince a jury that Nichols, already serving life in prison on federal bombing charges, was set up to take the blame for the blast.
...''Witnesses will be called to show that, while Mr. Nichols was at home in Kansas taking care of his family and building his business, Mr. McVeigh was actively recruiting and building a network of people who shared his violent hatred toward the federal government,'' according to a pretrial motion.
....Prosecutors....will also allege that Nichols robbed Arkansas gun dealer Roger Moore in November 1994 to help finance the bomb plot -- a robbery defense attorneys believe was committed by the ARA bank robbery gang.
