Ahmed Ressam: British Columbia

Los Angeles International Airport Dept: Ahmed Ressam was arrested in December 1999 in Port Angeles, Wash., after he drove off a ferry from British Columbia with a trunk full of explosives, according to CTV. Ressam's lawyers had conceded that he should face at least three decades to satisfy the appeals courts and sEATTLE -- An Algerian-born man who once lived in Montreal was sentenced Wednesday to 37 years in prison for plotting to bomb Los Angeles International Airport around the turn of the new millennium. U.S. District Judge John C. Coughenour had twice ordered him to serve 22-year terms, but both times the sentences were reversed on appeal. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.