Subscribe to one of our news e-mail lists. A new federal indictment in the United States alleges that for more than a year, two Algerians living in Canada helped hatch a plan to blow up unspecified buildings or other targets in the United States. Indictment doesn't name targets Ressam was already facing charges related to an alleged attempt to smuggle explosives into the United States from Canada. The latest indictment adds terrorism conspiracy allegations and adds details to what prosecutors have described as an international plot involving at least six Algerians or their associates.
Prosecutors say they forged documents, bought or made explosives and sought large-scale destruction.
The indictment, however, does not include specific targets or how investigators traced an alleged plot dating to 1998. A separate federal indictment in New York said the conspiracy began at least a year earlier. He was in a rental car authorities said contained bomb-making materials. Experts have estimated the amount of explosives could have destroyed a large office building. Dahoumane remains at large, accused of being Ressam's accomplice.