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Los Angeles International Airport: Port Angeles

Ahmed Ressam CP Ahmed Ressam Dept: 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, according to Winnipeg Free Press. 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 and ahmed Ressam CP 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. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.