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...preempt a New Year's catastrophe. In the Northwest the FBI tracked the lead of a Washington State airline employee who recalled selling a plane ticket for Las Vegas last week to Adbelmajed Dahoumane, the suspected accomplice of Ahmed Ressam, the Algerian man caught smuggling explosives across the U.S.-Canadian border. Dahoumane's destination raised a red flag - Las Vegas will host one of the nation's largest New Year's celebrations on its fabled strip. The feds continue to scour the Southwest for leads on the disappearance of a thousand pounds of explosives from an Arizona rock quarry. Across...
...paranoia of the authorities is entirely justified," says TIME correspondent William Dowell. "The arrest at the Canadian border suggests that the threat is very serious and very disturbing." Although preliminary reports have linked the arrested man, Ahmed Ressam, less with Osama Bin Laden than with Canada-based Algerian Islamic radicals whose primary target has been France, "what you may have here," says Dowell, "is some cooperation between different groups or even one group subcontracting another...
...portrait of Ahmed Ressam that has emerged since his arrest for smuggling explosives from Canada last week has fed America's worst fears: On the eve of the millennium, an Algerian man with a trunkload of explosives eludes Canadian authorities, apparently headed for a million-person New Year's party in Seattle, and almost makes it into the U.S. if not for the hunch of a border guard. It makes for one terrifying story to the U.S., which has many terrorist enemies around the world but has stayed generally free of attack on its own soil, and it exposes...
...Canada is pushed into improved policing, it could be out of embarrassment. According to the Canadian press, Ressam showed up in the country four years ago, a self-professed accused terrorist with an obviously fake passport. That bit of deception didn't overly concern Canadian officials, who allowed him to stay in country. However, Ressam was refused refugee status and was later briefly jailed for robbery. When he was arrested a second time, he skipped out on bail and stayed in the city for over a year under an assumed identity. He's since been linked to the 11 members...
...arrests in Jordan and at the Canadian border immediately sparked official speculation over the possible involvement of Bin Laden - and that's the best possible news for the Saudi terrorist financier accused of masterminding last year's bombing of two U.S. embassies in East Africa. Terrorism's success is measured not by territory captured or casualties inflicted, but by the extent to which it's able to terrorize and demoralize its target population. Forcing Americans to stay away from millennial celebrations around the world, and even in their own home towns, is a psychological victory for the terrorist mastermind...