This 4:00 excerpt from FRONTLINE's "Trail of a Terrorist" details how Ressam and his accomplice, another Algerian refugee, began constructing the bomb in November 1999-a month before the planned attack in Los Angeles. They set up their operation at a motel in Vancouver, Canada.

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