World News Tonight (ABC) - 1999-12-23

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[0:03] [Music]

[0:12] On World News Tonight this Thursday,

[0:14] more suspicions of terrorism.

[0:16] Prosecutors say two people arrested in

[0:18] Vermont have ties to Algerian

[0:21] extremists. the inevitable growing pains

[0:24] of e-commerce. Botch orders, bad

[0:26] service, toys that won't get there in

[0:29] time for Christmas. Celebrating the

[0:31] birth of Christ where so few of his

[0:33] followers remain. Why are Christians

[0:35] vanishing from the Holy Land? And we'll

[0:38] take a closer look at a holiday

[0:40] tradition 17 centuries old.

[0:43] >> Ho ho ho.

[0:45] >> I love you, Santa.

[0:46] >> The man behind the myth.

[0:50] [Music]

[0:56] From ABC News World Headquarters in New

[0:59] York, this is World News Tonight with

[1:02] Peter Jennings. Sitting in tonight,

[1:05] Aaron Brown.

[1:06] >> Good evening. It is beginning to look

[1:08] like a pattern. Three weeks ago, police

[1:10] in Jordan rounded up 13 people suspected

[1:13] of having ties to Algerian or other

[1:15] Islamic terrorist groups. Then 10 days

[1:18] ago, US customs agents got lucky and

[1:20] caught Algerian Akmed Rasam bringing

[1:23] explosives into the country from Canada.

[1:26] And today, prosecutors in Vermont said

[1:28] the two people arrested Sunday night at

[1:31] the US Canadian border have links to

[1:33] Algerian Islamic terrorists. As we said,

[1:36] a pattern and maybe a plan. We begin

[1:40] tonight with ABC's John Miller.

[1:44] A United States marshals ban brought

[1:46] Luchia Garopolo and Bubai Chamchi into

[1:48] the federal courthouse in Burlington,

[1:50] Vermont. And though the charges trying

[1:52] to enter the US illegally are relatively

[1:55] minor, both are being held without bail.

[1:58] That's because federal prosecutors

[2:00] convinced a judge that there