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Article: Judge keeps same sentence for terror convict
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- December 3, 2008
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A federal judge on Wednesday declined to change the 22-year prison sentence he imposed on an al-Qaida-trained Algerian convicted of plotting to bomb Los Angeles International Airport at the turn of the millennium.
Prosecutors had requested that the sentence against Ahmed Ressam be increased to a life term. In recent years Ressam has taken back statements he made implicating other terrorists, and prosecutors believe he no longer deserves the leniency the judge showed him in 2005. The original sentence has been vacated by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
The appeals court told U.S. District Judge John Coughenour to recalculate the sentence he handed down three years ...