A New Westminster, British Columbia, man has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for plotting to blow up the Trans-Alaskan oil pipeline in January 2000. The man pleaded guilty in March to aiding and abetting terrorism transcending national boundaries at the U.S. District Court in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He was arrested in August 1999, in a joint operation by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. They -2-accused him of soliciting the help of a U.S. citizen to bomb the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System. Prosecutors said the Canadian man acquired explosives and sought to plant 14 timed bombs at three points along the pipeline in an attempt to disrupt energy supplies over the turn of the millennium. He also planned to buy energy securities at low prices before the attack and hoped to profit by selling them at a higher price amid market turmoil afterward, prosecutors said. The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System runs north-south about 800 miles from the Arctic Ocean at Prudhoe Bay to the Gulf of Alaska at Valdez. Source: [1] http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/story.html?id=033aabcf-9aab-4e42-bc16-7ab3b25d3232