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WASHINGTON — U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey will argue a case before the Supreme Court this month involving a convicted Algerian terrorist caught in Port Angeles in 1999.
Mukasey will be the first attorney general since Janet Reno in 1996 to represent the government at the high court.
Mukasey will ask the justices on March 25 to reinstate the conviction of would-be millennium bomber Ahmed Ressam on a charge that an appeals court threw out, Justice Department spokesman Peter Carr said.
The 66-year-old Mukasey is a former federal judge who presided over high-profile terrorism trials in New York.
The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned one of the nine counts on which Ressam was convicted for plotting to bomb Los Angeles International Airport around Jan. 1, 2000.
