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Terror leader plotted raid on Los Angeles, says Bush

By Edward Alden in Washington and Shawn Donnan in Jakarta

Published: February 9 2006 15:51 | Last updated: February 9 2006 18:36

The White House said yesterday that Hambali, the captured Indonesian leader of Jemaah Islamiah, the south-east Asian terrorist group, had participated in an elaborate al-Qaeda plot aimed at using hijacked aircraft to attack the tallest building on the US west coast in early 2002.

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