World News Tonight (ABC) - 1999-12-30

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[0:00] Your vision for the

[0:01] [Music]

[0:08] future on World News Tonight this

[0:11] Thursday. Counting the hours to the next

[0:13] millennium and trying to keep America

[0:15] safe. The FBI arrests another man

[0:18] accused in a terrorist plot. Across the

[0:20] country, security to the hill, no

[0:22] caution is spared for New Year's Eve.

[0:25] What does the man who first warned us

[0:27] about the dangers of Y2K have to say

[0:30] about it now? And when the future

[0:33] becomes the present, we'll take a look

[0:35] at what people once predicted the world

[0:37] would be like

[0:44] today. From ABC News World Headquarters

[0:48] in New York, this is World News Tonight

[0:51] with Peter Jennings. Sitting in tonight,

[0:54] Jack Ford. Good evening. The new

[0:56] millennium is getting very close, and

[0:58] for law enforcement officials racing to

[1:00] protect against violence, the pressure

[1:02] has rarely been so high. Across the

[1:04] country today, the FBI questioned scores

[1:06] of people who allegedly have ties to

[1:08] terrorist organizations. And in New York

[1:10] City, an arrest of particular

[1:12] significance and a further sign of a

[1:14] terrorist conspiracy on American soil.

[1:16] Here's ABC's John Miller.

[1:19] FBI agents raided this apartment

[1:21] building in Brooklyn and arrested an

[1:23] Algerian named Abdel Ghani. Officials

[1:26] would not say much publicly at first,

[1:28] but tell ABC News Ghani is charged with

[1:31] providing support and materials in a

[1:33] plan to bomb Americans. Sources say

[1:35] Ghani was in Seattle allegedly to meet

[1:38] Akmed Rasam as part of a bombing plot,

[1:41] but Rasam was captured with the

[1:43] explosives as he tried to cross the

[1:44] border from Canada. Two days later,

[1:47] Ghani return

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