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Eurasia Review
March 30, 2018
The murder of six worshippers in January 2017 reached a dramatic conclusion in March when Alexandre Bissonnette pleaded guilty, avoiding a lengthy trial. “I'd like to ask for your forgiveness for all the harm I caused you, even though I know what I did is unforgivable. In spite of everything that was said,Ãâà...
TBO.com
March 18, 2018
And in 1999, he cultivated an asset named Ahmed Ressam, who had planned on blowing up the Los Angeles airport on New Year's Eve, but instead became a valuable witness for the government. Humphries also spent time searching for remains of 2-year-old Caylee Anthony. And in 2010 he had to shootÃâà...
Refinery29
February 28, 2018
It's 1998, and John O'Neill, Jeff Daniels' FBI agent character on the new Hulu miniseries The Looming Tower, knows something is coming. Something really, really bad. Of course, we, the omniscient audience of the future, know what's coming. The knowledge of the events that would transpire on SeptemberÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
November 9, 2017
The information-sharing process began after Ahmed Ressam, another Algerian man living in Montreal at the time, was caught with a stash of explosives in the boot of his car as he crossed the Canada-US border. In what became known as the "Millenium Plot", Ressam had planned to attack Los AngelesÃâà...
Toronto Sun
November 7, 2017
According to Ameziane's lawsuit, after another Algerian living in Montreal, Ahmed Ressam, was caught trying to sneak explosives into the U.S. to blow up Los Angeles International airport (LAX) during millennium celebrations, CSIS and the RCMP began collecting information about Ameziane secretly.
CSS Resources (blog)
September 22, 2017
A member of the al-Qaeda aligned Armed Islamic Group (GIA)—a group to which Ahmed Ressam was also a member—Kamel became known as a dashing and efficient operator. After organizing charity work in Canada aimed at filling the coffers of the GIA in Bosnia, Kamel travelled to Europe himself.
Press Herald
August 20, 2017
The woman, Lucia Garofalo, was initially linked to Ahmed Ressam, the Algerian who had been living in Montreal who was caught in Washington state that same month trying to bring a bomb into the United States that he planned to detonate at the Los Angeles International Airport on New Year's Eve.
Ottawa Citizen
August 14, 2017
Less than two years before the 9/11 attacks, an Algerian named Ahmed Ressam tried to cross from Canada into the United States to bomb the Los Angeles Airport. This is one of 15 stories the Citizen presents as part of its ongoing Canada 150 coverage.
Ottawa Citizen
February 19, 2015
A new U.S. report on the CIA's torture of detainees reveals Ahmed Ressam was connected to a U.S. al-Qaida operative who later plotted to destroy the Brooklyn Bridge. News of a connection between Ressam and Iyman Faris reveals new details about al-Qaida's North American “sleeper” cells in the yearsÃâà...
KOMO News
October 24, 2012
SEATTLE (AP) - Algerian terrorist Ahmed Ressam was sentenced Wednesday to 37 years in prison for plotting to bomb Los Angeles International Airport around the turn of the new millennium. Ressam, who had trained at al-Qaeda's training camps in Afghanistan, was arrested in December 1999 when a customs agentÃâà...
New York Times
October 24, 2012
Ahmed Ressam, known as the millennium bomber, was convicted of plotting to detonate a bomb at Los Angeles International Airport on New Year's Eve 1999. He was sentenced twice before by Judge John C. Coughenour of Federal District Court in Seattle, to 22 years in prison each time; both sentencesÃâà...
Toronto Star
October 24, 2012
Ahmed Ressam, who had trained with Al Qaeda in Afghanistan, was arrested in December 1999 when a customs agent noticed that he appeared suspicious as he drove off a ferry from Canada onto Washington's Olympic Peninsula. A resulting search turned up a trunk full of explosives. Ressam's captureÃâà...
