SEATTLE – A federal judge in Seattle has re-imposed a 22-year sentence on terrorist Ahmed Ressam.
An appeals court had told U.S. District Judge John Coughenour to recalculate the 22-year term he handed down three years ago, but Coughenour on Wednesday kept the same sentence.
Prosecutors had sought a life term because they say the former Montrealer has stopped co-operating on other cases.
The judge earlier had shown Ressam leniency for testifying against two co-conspirators and providing other information.
Ressam is an Al Qaeda-trained Algerian who was arrested in December 1999 by border guards at Port Angeles when he drove off a ferry from British Columbia with a car full of explosives.
He was convicted of plotting to bomb the Los Angeles Airport on the 2000 millennium.
