Tracking The Terror At Home...

...And The Upsurge Abroad ATTACKS, MOVEMENTS and ARRESTS of suspected al-Qaeda operatives

THE BORDER In December 1999, Algerian Ahmed Ressam was stopped trying to cross from Canada to the U.S. in an explosives-packed car, which he intended to use in a plot to blow up LAX

MINNESOTA Zacarias Moussaoui was detained in August 2001 after arousing suspicion at a flight school. A local FBI agent says an HQ "roadblock" thwarted a pre-Sept. 11 investigation

OKLAHOMA In 1993, years before suspected "20th hijacker" Zacarias Moussaoui flunked out of flight school in Norman, alleged al-Qaeda affiliate Ihab Mohamed Ali got his pilot's license here

SAN DIEGO Hijackers Nawaq Alhamzi and Khalid al-Midhar lived in California...

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