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Algerian Man Charged in Plot to Attack Los Angeles International Airport During Millennium Celebration
Friday, November 16, 2001
By Tom Hays / The Associated Press

New York -- Source
An Algerian man was charged today with aiding a would-be bomber in a failed plot to attack Los Angeles International Airport during millennium celebrations.

Canadian authorities arrested Samir Ati Mohamed Thursday night in Vancouver, prosecutors said. He was awaiting extradition to New York.

A federal grand jury indicted him last month. The indictment, unsealed today, accuses Mohamed, 32, of agreeing to help Ahmed Ressam obtain guns and hand grenades to use in bank robberies.

Ressam -- who was trained in Osama bin Laden-run terrorist training camps in Afghanistan -- was arrested in late 1999 when he fled from border officials after entering the country from Canada. The trunk of his car was loaded with explosives.
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