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Would-Be LAX Bomber Resentenced to 22 Years

[Los Angeles Times] Kim Murphy - Ahmed Ressam, the "millennium bomber" convicted of plotting to blow up Los Angeles International Airport, was resentenced to 22 years in prison Wednesday after a federal judge found that solitary confinement and repeated interrogations had helped cause him to stop cooperating in 2003 in other terrorism prosecutions. The substantial help that the Algerian provided to U.S. officials before his change of heart - coupled with the relatively shorter sentences handed out in other terrorism cases - merited no harsher a penalty than the 22-year sentence first imposed in 2005, the judge said. Jeffrey Sullivan, the U.S. attorney in Seattle, said he would seek permission to appeal Ressam's sentence. "He told the court today in front of the judge, 'I'm a terrorist, I'm trained as a terrorist, I'm going to do it again when I get out.'...He deserves to stay in jail until he dies."
2008-12-05 08:00:00
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