1.   American officials speculate that bin Laden is linked to the bomb plot, but have not offered specifics to support their assertion.

2.   A host of questions remain about the bomb plot that appears to have been centered in the Canadian cities of Montreal and Vancouver.

3.   A federal investigator confirmed that around early April, investigators believe, McVeigh was of the opinion that Nichols might not go along with the bomb plot.

4.   A massive cross-border manhunt is underway for possible co-conspirators in a suspected millennium-related terrorist bomb plot against the United States.

5.   After Parker reported the cargo bomb plot in Pakistan, security was increased at airports in Asia, said federal officials who insisted on anonymity.

6.   But by the time the letters were written, prosecutors said, the bomb plot was well on its way.

7.   But investigators strongly suspect that the brothers played a role in the bomb plot, the officials said.

8.   But the British press was once full of speculation that Giaka, as a former intelligence agent, would firmly link the two accused to the bomb plot.

9.   But the yarn is also just a story, not the outline for a real bomb plot.

10.   But their bomb plot failed and they paid with their lives.