When Custom agents stopped Ahmed Ressam of Algeria as he drove off the Coho ferry in December 1999 in a car loaded with explosives, they put Port Angeles and the North Olympic Peninsula into the national news.
“Border arrest in Port Angeles, Wash., yields bomb material, timers” shouted a headline at MSNBC’s Internet site.
“Port Angeles arrest heightens terrorism concerns” cried The Seattle Times.
Maps in The New York Times and on every network TV news program showed where Port Angeles was in relation to Victoria, Vancouver and Seattle.
I wondered — is the news that Port Angeles is now linked to a possible Islamic plot being followed with interest by another man?
He, too, made the headlines during a stop in Port Angeles.
His name: Christopher John Boyce.
He was then residing in “Supermax” in Florence, Colo., the federal government’s toughest prison.
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