Wednesday, 17 May, 2000
President Clinton has made his most direct accusation yet that the Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden tried to blow up Americans over the turn of the millennium.
Mr Clinton said publicly, and in greater detail, what United States officials had previously alleged in private - that a complex series of arrests from Seattle to Jordan at the end of last year were linked to a single plot.
"Last December, working with Jordan, we shot down a plot to place large bombs at locations where Americans might gather on New Year's Eve.
"We learned this plot was linked to terrorist camps in Afghanistan, and the organisation created by Osama bin Laden," Mr Clinton said.