Terrorist in LAX bomb plot to get longer sentence
A federal appeals court panel today overturned the 22-year prison sentence of an Algerian man who plotted to bomb Los Angeles International Airport on the eve of the year 2000, ruling that the prison term should have been longer.
The panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals cited procedural errors in rejecting the
sentence given to Ahmed Ressam, who was arrested Dec. 14, 1999, at a ferry terminal in Port
Angeles, Wash., after crossing from British Columbia, Canada, in a rented sedan with explosives
in the trunk.
The panel ordered that Ressam be re-sentenced by another judge in Seattle.<QA>
The panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals cited procedural errors in rejecting the
sentence given to Ahmed Ressam, who was arrested Dec. 14, 1999, at a ferry terminal in Port
Angeles, Wash., after crossing from British Columbia, Canada, in a rented sedan with explosives
in the trunk.
The panel ordered that Ressam be re-sentenced by another judge in Seattle.<QA>
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