15 stories: The Millennium Bomber – A Canadian-based terror plot

Less than two years before the 9/11 attacks, an Algerian named Ahmed Ressam tried to cross from Canada into the United States to bomb the Los Angeles Airport. This is one of 15 stories the Citizen presents as part of its ongoing Canada 150 coverage.
“The fire is on. And it’s coming.”
With those cryptic words, a plot to unleash a devastating terror attack on the United States was set in motion by a Canadian-based jihadist group.
At that moment, in December 1999, a short, slender