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Top News // 1 decade ago

Millenium bomber sentenced to 22 years

The man accused of attempting a New Year's Eve attack on Los Angeles International Airport in 1999 was sentenced to 22 years in prison Wednesday.

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Millennium bomber faces sentencing

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Report: Insider may testify on Zubaydah

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Report: US has witness against Zubaydah

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Identity thefts linked to terrorist

An Algerian national facing federal charges of identity theft has been linked to an al Qaida terrorist convicted in a failed 1999 plan to bomb the Los Angeles I

Ahmed Ressam (Arabic: احمد رسام‎; also Benni Noris or the Millennium Bomber; born May 19, 1967(1967-05-19)) was convicted and sentenced to 22 years in prison in a plot to bomb Los Angeles International Airport on New Year's Eve 1999.

Ressam was born in Algeria. He entered Canada in 1994 with a forged French passport. When immigration officials at the Montreal airport questioned him, he applied for political asylum, claiming persecution in Algeria. After settling in Montreal, he became a small-time criminal. At some point, he was recruited into al-Qaeda. After not attending his hearing for political asylum, his application for refugee status was denied and a warrant issued for his arrest. He evaded deportation by obtaining a passport using a false name, "Benni Noris."

After allegedly speaking to Muezzin Raouf Hannachi, Ressam used the false passport to travel to the Khalden training camp in Afghanistan in 1998 along with his roommate Mustapha Labsi.

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