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* Ahmed Ressam, an Islamist militant associated with Al-Qaeda is arrested when attempting to cross from Canada to the United States at the Canada-U. S. border on 14 December 1999 ; it is discovered that he intended to bomb Los Angeles International Airport during millennium celebrations.

This is the first major attempted terrorist attack by Al Qaeda on U. S. soil since the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and marked the beginning of a series of attempted terrorist attacks by Al Qaeda against the U. S. that would continue into the 21st century.