The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco tossed the 22 year sentence meted out to the millennium bomber, Ahmed Ressam, as too lenient.SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A federal appeals court says a 22-year prison sentence is too lenient for an al-Qaida-trained terrorist convicted of plotting to bomb Los Angeles International Airport at the turn of the millennium.Well, I'm stunned.
A divided three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals tossed out the sentence Tuesday. It also removed the Seattle trial judge from the case and assigned the re-sentencing of Ahmed Ressam to another judge.
Border agents in Washington state arrested Ressam in December 1999 after he entered the United States from Canada on a ferry with a car packed with explosives.
A judge cited Ressam's cooperation with investigators in meting out the original sentence. But since Ressam recanted his cooperation after two years, the appeals court says he deserves a longer sentence. Breitbart
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2 comments:
and, it seems, the rest of us are speechless.
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LOL to your comment to your own post!
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