Ahmed Ressam being sentenced for 3rd time in millennium bomb plot
SEATTLE – Algerian terrorist Ahmed Ressam is being sentenced for the third time in his plot to bomb Los Angeles International Airport around the turn of the new millennium.
Ressam, a former resident of Montreal, was arrested in December 1999 as he drove off a ferry from Canada into Washington state with a trunk full of explosives.
U.S. District Judge John Coughenour has twice ordered him to serve 22-year terms, but both times the sentences were reversed on appeal.
Today, he’s expected to get more time.
Ressam’s lawyers have conceded that he should face at least three decades to satisfy the appeals courts, but no more than 34 years.
The Justice Department is seeking life in prison because of the mass murder he intended to inflict, and because he recanted his co-operation with federal investigators.
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