Terrorist captured in Port Angeles in 1999 to be sentenced this month

Terrorist Ahmed Ressam, the Algerian convicted of bringing bomb-making materials into Port Angeles in 1999 to bomb Los Angeles International Airport at the millennium, is to be sentenced next month — a development that has been repeatedly delayed to ensure his cooperation in other terrorism cases.

The sentencing is set “in stone”‘ for April 27, Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark Bartlett said Thursday.

Ressam was convicted in April 2001 of nine charges, including terrorist conspiracy, and remains in a federal lockup near Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.

Linked to Afghani training camps sponsored by Osama bin Laden, he faced up to 130 years in prison, but cut a deal with the Justice Department and began cooperating with authorities in exchange for a 27-year prison sentence.