Court Report

Court: Sentence for Millennium Plotter Too Lenient

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A federal appeals court said a 22-year prison sentence was too lenient for an al-Qaida-trained terrorist convicted of plotting to bomb Los Angeles International Airport at the end of the millennium. A divided three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Ahmed Ressam, 41, deserved a much longer prison term because he had reneged on a deal to cooperate with terrorism investigators around the world. Read more...
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