Yep, and he was Algerian.
After brief deliberations, a federal jury Friday found an Algerian man guilty of plotting terrorist attacks against millennium celebrations in the United States.Ahmed Ressam had pleaded not guilty to nine counts. He faces up to 130 years in prison....
Authorities say the bomb plot may have included targets in the Los Angeles and San Francisco areas as well, and Ressam's capture led to the arrests of two alleged co-conspirators in Montreal and Brooklyn, NY....
The prosecution said it did not intend to prove specific sites were targeted, but noted evidence suggesting West Coast landmarks as well as three airports in California, including Los Angeles, had been considered.
The weakest portion of the federal case in Los Angeles was prosecutors' efforts to prove a globl conspiracy in which Ressam was supposedly a key player.
They were prevented from ever mentioning the name of Osama bin Laden or making any references to terrorist training camps in Afghanistan.
CBS News, April 6, 2001
Y2K Bomb Suspect Convicted
