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Originally published October 14, 2008 at 12:05 PM | Page modified October 14, 2008 at 12:05 PM

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New sentencing for Ahmed Ressam set for December

Would-be millennium bomber Ahmed Ressam is coming back to court.

SEATTLE —

Would-be millennium bomber Ahmed Ressam is coming back to court.

U.S. District Judge John C. Coughenour (COO'-en-our) set a resentencing hearing Dec. 3 in Seattle.

The judge sentenced Ressam to 22 years in prison in 2005, after the Algerian national was convicted of plotting to bomb Los Angeles International Airport around Jan. 1, 2000.

Customs agents in Port Angeles caught him with explosives in the trunk of his rental car when he drove off a ferry from British Columbia in December 1999.

Both Ressam and the government appealed - with Ressam's lawyers saying he was improperly convicted on one count, and the Justice Department saying his sentence was unreasonably short. The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the conviction in May, and now the case has come back to Coughenour, who must sentence Ressam anew after calculating the guideline range for his offenses.

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