Editing 2000 millennium attack plots (section)

==Aftermath==
===Investigation===
While in prison, Ressam revealed that al-Qaeda [[clandestine cell system|sleeper cells]] existed within the United States. This information was included in the [[President's Daily Brief]] delivered to President [[George W. Bush]] on August 6, 2001, entitled ''[[Bin Laden Determined To Strike in US]]''.<ref name="cnnbinladen">{{Cite news|title=Transcript: Bin Laden determined to strike in US|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/10/august6.memo/|work=CNN|date=April 10, 2004|access-date=July 18, 2016|archive-date=October 28, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201028235945/http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/10/august6.memo/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Independent">{{Cite news|title=Bin Laden memo puts Bush on back foot|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/bin-laden-memo-puts-bush-on-back-foot-559687.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/bin-laden-memo-puts-bush-on-back-foot-559687.html |archive-date=May 1, 2022 |url-access=subscription|work=The Independent|date=April 12, 2004}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

FBI special agent and counter-terrorism chief [[John P. O'Neill]], who had been central in the investigation of al-Qaeda in the late 1990s and the millennium plot, and subsequently suspected the existence of sleeper cells in the United States, died in the [[September 11 attacks]] in 2001 as head of security of the [[World Trade Center (1973–2001)|World Trade Center]]. O'Neill had started his new job on August 23 less than a month before the attack, after he had been squeezed out of the bureau.<ref name="NewYorker"/>

On July 19, 2004, it was revealed that the [[U.S. Justice Department]] was investigating former National Security Advisor of the Clinton administration, Sandy Berger, for unauthorized removal of [[classified information|classified documents]] in October 2003 from a [[National Archives and Records Administration|National Archives]] reading room prior to testifying before the 9/11 Commission.  The documents were five classified copies of a single report commissioned from Richard A. Clarke, covering internal assessments of the Clinton administration's handling of the plots. An associate of Berger said Berger took one copy in September 2003 and four copies in October 2003.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://edition.cnn.com/2005/LAW/04/01/berger.plea/ |work=CNN |title=Sandy Berger to plead guilty on documents charge |date=April 1, 2005 |access-date=May 23, 2010 |archive-date=September 1, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200901150854/http://edition.cnn.com/2005/LAW/04/01/berger.plea/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Attacks===
After the unsuccessful attack on USS ''The Sullivans'', al-Qaeda attempted the same type of attack for a second time, again in Aden, Yemen. They [[USS Cole bombing|successfully bombed]] {{USS|Cole|DDG-67|6}} on October 12, 2000, in an attack that claimed the lives of seventeen U.S. sailors.<ref name="other"/>

The Radisson SAS hotel in Amman, Jordan, which was the target of a millennium attack plot, was one of three hotels in the city that were [[2005 Amman bombings#Radisson SAS|bombed by al-Qaeda in 2005]]. Thirty-eight people were killed in the bombing, which was the deadliest of the three hotels attacked.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Amman Radisson Targeted in Foiled Millennium Attack|url=https://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Terrorism/story?id=1296624|work=ABC News|date=November 9, 2005|access-date=June 27, 2020|archive-date=October 28, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201028211618/https://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Terrorism/story?id=1296624|url-status=live}}</ref>