ALGIERS, March 27 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - A suspected Algerian Muslim hardliner wanted by U.S. authorities for allegedly plotting attacks in the United States has been arrested, the Algerian press agency APS reported Tuesday.
Algerian secret service arrested Abdelmadjid Dahoumane for his involvement in an alleged plot to bomb various U.S. sites during New Year's Eve celebrations in 1999.
Another Algerian national, Ahmed Ressam, arrested while trying to cross the U.S.-Canada border in December 1999 to carry out the plot, went on trial in Los Angeles earlier this month.
Dahoumane was arrested after returning from Afghanistan where he was trained in handling explosives and weapons, the report said quoting a "well-informed" source.
The date of his arrest was not specified.
The suspect is under investigation and will answer questions about his "involvement and activities as part of a shadowy terrorist group abroad" before Algerian justice authorities, said the report.
U.S. authorities have offered a five million-dollar reward for information leading to Dahoumane's arrest.
He has been indicted in absentia along with three other suspects held in a New York jail, including Abdel Ghani Meskini, 33, who pleaded guilty to helping Ressam enter the United States from Canada.
Ressam has been linked to the al-Qaeda cell allegedly led by Saudi billionaire Osama bin Laden and Algeria's activist Armed Islamic Group (GIA).
He is accused of having planned a car bomb in downtown Seattle using 50 kilograms (110 pounds) of explosives that would have been set off at the stroke of midnight on December 31, 1999.
