PORT ANGELES — Three television news crews and a film crew shooting for National Geographic swarmed the MV Coho ferry dock Thursday to film images detailing this city’s part in international terrorism.
The crews chatted with two U.S. Customs inspectors at the dock who helped capture Ahmed Ressam shortly after the Algerian drove off the Coho from Victoria in 1999 with 133 pounds of bomb-making materials in his car’s trunk.
Ressam, who allegedly trained at one of Osama bin Ladden’s camps in Afghanistan, intended to blow up Los Angeles International Airport, authorities said.
“This little piece of the world has had a very big piece in the story” of bin Laden and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, said Bill Anthony, U.S. Customs public affairs officer.
Customs picked Thursday as “media day” to grant TV crews a chance to do stories on Port Angeles’ link to bin Laden, said Anthony, who flew here from his Washington, D.C., office to oversee the filming.
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