1. An Algerian convicted in a millennium bombing plot in Los Angeles finished his testimony Friday against a man being tried as a co-conspirator in the plot. 2. But it was the millennium plot that revealed how ill equipped the bureau was to radically shift its culture, former officials say. 3. He is a naturalized American citizen of Palestinian descent who has been jailed in Jordan in connection with the millennium plot there. 4. Hijazi was convicted in absentia in Amman last year in the thwarted millennium plot to blow up holy places and other tourist sites in Jordan. 5. His father and his lawyers say that Jordan has exaggerated the threat of the millennium plot to bolster its ties with the United States. 6. Just as the embassy bombings had exposed the threat of al-Qaida overseas, the millennium plot revealed gaping vulnerabilities at home. 7. Ressam is cooperating now, as he did starting in May when he testified against other defendants in the millennium plot, in hopes of getting a lighter sentence. 8. Seattle was never the target of a millennium bomb plot, convicted terrorist Ahmed Ressam has told federal prosecutors. 9. The emergence of sleeper cells of Algerians in Canada and Europe in connection with the millennium bombing plot caught U.S. intelligence officials off guard. 10. The millennium plot revealed gaping vulnerabilities at home. |
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