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Ressam was indicted by a superseding indictment on January 20, 2000, for nine counts of criminal activity in connection with his attempt to bomb the Los Angeles International Airport on December 31, 1999: 1 ) an act of terrorism transcending a national boundary ; 2 ) placing an explosive in proximity to a terminal ; 3 ) false identification documents ; 4 ) use of a fictitious name for admission to the U. S .; 5 ) the felony of making a false statement to a U. S. Customs official ; 6 ) smuggling ; 7 ) transportation of explosives ; 8 ) possession of an unregistered firearm ; and 9 ) carrying an explosive during the commission of a felony.
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After the ferry docked in Port Angeles at 6 pm, Ressam saw to it that his car was the last one to leave the ferry.
Although there had not been any intelligence reports suggesting threats, U. S. Customs inspector Diana Dean decided to have a secondary Customs search of Ressam's car performed, saying later that Ressam was acting " hinky ", and asked him to get out of the car.
At first, Ressam was not cooperative.
His fingerprints were analyzed by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, who determined that he was actually " Ahmed Ressam ", rather than " Benni Antoine Noris ".
Though there has only been one case, that of Ahmed Ressam an Algerian citizen who was in Canada illegally.
( p. 14 ) Ahmed Ressam, who was caught with explosives crossing the Canadian border in December 1999 as part of the 2000 Millennium Plot, was also a member of the same mosque.
Since Slahi's name was known to U. S. intelligence, he became suspected of activating Ressam.
Coughenour was the Judge who sentenced Ressam.
Ressam explained the incorrect information he had previously offered American intelligence analysts was because he
Ressam was sentenced to 22 years imprisonment.
Ressam was convicted in the United States and held under an unusual arrangement whereby he was offered a reduced sentence in exchange for information.
After learning that Mr. Ressam was supposed to have named him, Charkaoui repeatedly asked to be able to cross-examine him in court, but the motion was not granted.
Ressam and by
Finding that the trial court judge's " views appear too entrenched to allow for the appearance of fairness on remand ," the appellate court ordered that Ressam be re-sentenced by a different district court judge from the one who had handed down the original sentence.
* December 14 – The United States Border Patrol arrests the would-be " Millenium Bomber ," Ahmed Ressam, when he arrives from Canada by ferry at Port Angeles, Washington, with timing devices and 130 pounds ( 59 kg ) of explosives in his car.
According to a classified report of German intelligence, " there is not only no evidence of any involvement by Ould Slahi in the planning and preparation of the attacks, but also no indication that Ressam and Ould Slahi knew each other.
Ressam and indictment
Following a 19-day trial in U. S. District Court in Los Angeles, with approximately 120 witnesses, a jury found Ressam guilty on all counts of his indictment on April 6, 2001.
Ressam and on
* Ahmed Ressam, an Islamist militant associated with Al-Qaeda is arrested when attempting to cross from Canada to the United States at the Canada-U. S. border on 14 December 1999 ; it is discovered that he intended to bomb Los Angeles International Airport during millennium celebrations.
Ahmed Ressam, an Algerian citizen living in Montreal, Canada planned to bomb Los Angeles International Airport ( LAX ) on New Year's Eve 1999 / 2000.
Fabrice de Pierrebourg of the Journal de Montreal testified in Federal Court on Wednesday, August 22, 2007 that, in correspondence, Ahmed Ressam
Ressam and January
*" Superseding Indictment in U. S. v. Ressam ", January 20, 2000
Ressam and 20
Ressam's lawyer argued that Ressam should be given a sentence of less than 20 years, to reflect the value of his original cooperation, saying: " It is a flat fact that law enforcement, the public, and public safety benefited in immeasurable ways from Ressam's decision to go to trial and cooperate.
Ressam and for
" Ressam didn't say anything during his sentencing hearing, but did send the judge a personal note, that included an apology for planning to bomb the airport.
On July 27, 2005, United States District Court Judge John Coughenour sentenced Ressam to 22 years in prison, plus 5 years of supervision after his release ; credited for good conduct, he could have been released after 14 years.
Earlier in Charkaoui's case, Charkaoui's lawyer introduced an arrest warrant for Ahmed Ressam for an incident that occurred in Montreal at a time when Ressam claimed, under oath in another case, to have been in a training camp in Afghanistan.
Ressam and with
Facing up to 130 years in prison, Ressam began cooperating with investigators after his conviction pursuant to a June 23, 2001, cooperation agreement that he entered into with the U. S. government.
* December 14-Montreal resident Ahmed Ressam is arrested in Seattle and found with large quantities of explosives
Ressam began cooperating with investigators in 2001.
Ressam and 1999
By handing out information to its counterparts, French intelligence agencies helped the US to convict Ahmed Ressam, arrested in 1999, as well as Zacarias Moussaoui, who lived a long time in France.
Ressam and terrorism
De Pierrebourg had written to Ahmed Ressam in the course of writing a book about terrorism in Montreal.
Ressam and ;
Ahmed Ressam (; also Benni Noris or the Millennium Bomber ; born, in Bou Ismaïl, Algeria ) is an Algerian al-Qaeda member who lived in Montreal, Canada.
Ressam and 3
A Salafist member, he is considered a close associate of Ahmed Ressam, the two of them having spent 3 weeks together in a Canadian hotel room prior to Ressam's arrest.
Ressam and U
U. S. Attorney John McKay argued Ressam should get a 35-year sentence, because he had declined to cooperate in two cases, which would now go unprosecuted.
Ressam wrote a letter in November 2006, to U. S. District Court Judge John C. Coughenour,
Ressam and .
Al-Libi led the Al Khaldan training camp in Afghanistan, the facility where Zacarias Moussaoui and Ahmed Ressam trained.
As one of the Customs inspectors began to escort him from the car, Ressam broke free and fled.
The 9 / 11 Commission Report opined that had Ressam been asked about Moussaoui, he would have broken that logjam.
By November 28, 2001, Ressam began to express reluctance about discussing some matters.
Ressam and explosives
At his trial, Ressam testified in 2001 that Dahoumane had helped to build the explosives at that time, but that he had not told Dahoumane the intended target.
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He was indicted on sixteen felony counts and on May 4, 1989, he was initially convicted of three: accepting an illegal gratuity, aiding and abetting in the obstruction of a congressional inquiry, and destruction of documents ( by his secretary, Fawn Hall, on his instructions ).
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