Nichols admits playing role in Oklahoma blast

The newspaper said it obtained a statement from Nichols made with state prosecutors during a secret 2003 plea agreement meeting. In the statement, Nichols said he helped bombing triggerman Timothy McVeigh obtain the components of the bomb that ripped through the Alfred P. Murrah federal building in 1995.

Nichols confessed to helping McVeigh assemble a fertilizer and fuel bomb in a truck that McVeigh would then drive to Oklahoma City. He told prosecutors McVeigh did the planning and was involved in all aspects of the bombing, including carrying out the deadly mission, the paper said.