Legal Opinion
United States v. Ressam
District Court, W.D. Washington
Decided August 15, 2002No. CR99-666CPublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER (AS AMENDED)
COUGHENOUR, Chief Judge.
I. BACKGROUND
Defendant Ahmed Ressam was arrested in December 1999 in Port Angeles, Washington, having just arrived in the United States on a car ferry from Victoria, British Columbia. The trunk of his car contained over a hundred pounds of bomb components and several timing devices. It was later discovered that Ressam was an Al gerian citizen and a member of a terrorist cell based in Montreal and that the intended destination of the explosives was Los Angeles International Airport. After a four-week trial in March and April of 2001, Ressam was…
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