An Algerian, Abdel Ghani was arrested in Brooklyn, New York in 1999, after his phone number was found on Ahmed Ressam who had crossed the border from Canada carrying explosives to further the Millennium Plot.^[1]

The phone number, in the area code, was traced to 944 Newkirk Avenue which housed an Afghan restaurant, laundromat and grocery store, as well as a number of residential apartments.

Ghani, who had been waiting at a Best Western to meet with Ressam, allegedly left a "sloppily executed" trail of evidence suggesting he had helped Ressam smuggle the explosives, including a plane ticket he tore in half and threw in a trashbin, as well as fraudulent credit card receipts under his alias Eduardo Rocha. His telephone was subsequently wiretapped by the authorities.^[2]

His apartment was stormed by the Joint Terrorist Task Force, two weeks after Ressam's arrest, on December 24.^[2] Ghani, Najmeddine Houaichi and two other men were initially arrested, while Houaichi was charged with immigration violations, the other two men were released shortly afterwards.^[2]

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