“Millenium Bomber” sentenced
Posted October 24, 2012 10:02 am.
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SEATTLE (NEWS1130) – Ahmed Ressam, the so-called “Millennium Bomber,” has been given a 37-year prison sentence.
Ressam, who was born in Algeria, was convicted of plotting to set off explosives at Los Angeles International Airport on New Year’s Eve, 1999.
He was arrested as he drove off a ferry from Canada into Washington state with a trunk full of explosives.
US District Judge John C. Coughenour had twice ordered him to serve 22-year terms, but both times the sentences were reversed on appeal. Ressam’s attorneys conceded that he should face at least three decades to satisfy the appeals courts.
The Justice Department had sought life in prison because of the mass murder he intended to inflict and because he recanted his co-operation with federal investigators.
