31.   Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, also convicted in New York for bomb plots, was connected to the network.

32.   Spence was not among those arrested and has not been linked with the alleged bomb plot at the Mitchell plant.

33.   The defense has maintained that Ressam was an unwitting courier who had no knowledge of the alleged bomb plot.

34.   The indictments filed so far suggest that Fazil was no ordinary legionnaire, but a highly intelligent, natural leader who played a central role in the bomb plot.

35.   The intended target of the bomb plot remained unknown.

36.   The judge in the fraud trial allowed testimony about the alleged bomb plot, saying it may show Cockrell had a consciousness of guilt.

37.   Those searches uncovered bomb materials and a store of weapons, which could be illegal to possess and could ultimately tie the men closer to the bomb plot.

38.   Timothy James McVeigh, accused of masterminding the bomb plot, will go on trial first in Denver, where the case was moved because of pretrial publicity.

39.   Two Algerians, one in Brooklyn, N.Y., and the other in Seattle, have been arrested in the continuing investigation of a terrorist bomb plot.

40.   U.S. officials said the purported bomb plot had not advanced beyond the early discussion stage.