[GMMAC]

Also see: "Please accept my apology to the Canadian people for perpetuating the error; one I am sure that has been very painful to them," said Gingrich and, further, he "deeply regrets" what has become a "widespread inaccuracy."

[B Knotts]

I suspect he was thinking of the "Millennium bomber" that was caught (in 1999) at Port Angeles, Wash.