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  • Prosecutors say judge abused discretion in sentencing terrorist (had rebuked Bush administration)

    02/22/2006 10:27:02 PM PST · by NormsRevenge · 8 replies · 1,223+ views
    AP on Bakersfield Californian ^ | 2/22/06 | Gene Johnson - ap
    SEATTLE (AP) - The federal judge who sentenced an Algerian terrorist to 22 years in prison for attempting to bomb Los Angeles International Airport on the eve of the millennium wildly abused his discretion, said prosecutors who had sought a much longer sentence. Customs agents in Port Angeles, Wash., caught Ahmed Ressam, 38, with explosives in the trunk of his rental car when he drove off a ferry from British Columbia in December 1999. The scare prompted the cancellation of millennium celebrations at Seattle's Space Needle. At Ressam's sentencing last summer, U.S. District Judge John C. Coughenour used the opportunity...