CBS Evening News - 1995-12-01

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[0:01] The judge in the Oklahoma City bombing

[0:03] case is out. We'll have a late report on

[0:05] what that will mean for the trial. Also

[0:08] tonight, federal agents crack one of the

[0:10] largest credit card fraud operations in

[0:12] the country. The US military lays out

[0:14] the danger facing Bosnia bound troops,

[0:17] including landmines and hostile forces.

[0:20] And an enormous outpouring of emotion as

[0:23] President Clinton is welcomed to Dublin

[0:25] as a son of Ireland.

[0:31] This is the CBS Evening News with Dan

[0:34] Rather.

[0:36] Good evening. Dan is on assignment

[0:38] tonight. I'm John Roberts. A major

[0:39] victory tonight for Timothy McVey and

[0:41] Terry Nichols. The two men charged with

[0:44] the Oklahoma City bombing murders. The

[0:46] defense has succeeded in getting the

[0:48] judge thrown off the case. It's a late

[0:51] breaking story and correspondent Scott

[0:52] Py, who's been following the case for

[0:54] us, has the details now. Scott. John, a

[0:58] new judge will soon be appointed to hear

[1:00] the Oklahoma City bombing trial, and it

[1:02] now seems certain that the trial will

[1:04] move out of the small town of Lton,

[1:06] Oklahoma, where it was scheduled to

[1:08] begin in midMay. Judge Alli was kicked

[1:11] off the case by a federal appeals panel

[1:13] in Denver after a lengthy and vigorous

[1:15] battle by Judge Alli to stay on the

[1:17] case.

[1:19] Alli, a 63-year-old retired Army

[1:21] Brigadier general, has always insisted

[1:24] that he could conduct the trial fairly,

[1:26] even though his chambers and much of the

[1:28] federal courthouse were damaged in the

[1:30] bombing. Alli was not at the courthouse

[1:33] at the time of the blast. Today, the

[1:36] Court of Appeals ruled that becaus

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