November 12

Six rockets were fired at the U.S. Information Services cultural center and United Nations offices in Islamabad , Pakistan , injuring a Pakistani guard. 11

December 14

Authorities arrest Algerian Ahmed Ressam as he tries to enter the United States from Canada at Port Angeles , Wash. They find more than 100 pounds of explosives in his car, foiling a plot to detonate a bomb at Los Angeles International Airport in the days before millennium celebrations. Ressam testifies he was trained at a camp in Afghanistan , US officials say is run by bin Laden. 1