He subsequently reached a deal with prosecutors to cooperate in helping to bring other terror suspec

SEATTLE, Oct. 24, 2012 (Reuters) Convicted "Millennium Bomber" Ahmed Ressam, whose 22-year prison term was judged too lenient by a U.S. appeals court, faces re-sentencing on Wednesday for a foiled New Year's Eve 1999 plot to set off explosives at Los Angeles International Airport.
This artist rendering shows Ahmed Ressam, an Algerian man who was arrested transporting bomb-making materials from Victoria, B.C. into Port Angeles, Washington in December 1999, during his arraignment at the Federal Courthouse in Seattle. REUTERS/Files
Federal prosecutors who appealed the original punishment have asked the Seattle-based U.S. district judge presiding over the case to impose a new sentence that will require Ressam, an Algerian national, to spend the rest of his life in prison.
They argue that Ressam deserves a much harsher penalty because he reneged on an agreement to assist in the prosecution of other suspected militants and later recanted all his testimony and other statements to authorities.
According to the defense, Ressam also identified Zacarias Moussaoui, a convicted September 11 conspirator, as an individual he met at a militant training camp in Afghanistan, and gave information leading to the arrest of al Qaeda operative Abu Zubaydah.
He also insisted he was "against killing innocent people of any gender, color or religion," adding, "I apologize for my action." He concluded by saying, "You can judge me as you wish, I will not object to any of your sentences."
Defense lawyers have suggested that severe mental stress Ressam suffered new york car rentals from seven-plus years in solitary confinement at the "Supermax" federal prison in Florence, Colorado, may have influenced his decision to recant.
Ressam was arrested in December 1999 as he attempted to cross into the United States from British Columbia and aroused the suspicion of a U.S. Customs inspector at a ferry landing in Port Angeles, Washington.
He subsequently reached a deal with prosecutors to cooperate in helping new york car rentals to bring other terror suspects to justice, new york car rentals and was finally sentenced in 2008 to 22 years in prison, new york car rentals plus five years of supervised release.
The appeals court majority ruled that Coughenour failed to properly account for the fact that Ressam, who has been incarcerated since late 1999, would be 51 when released, sufficiently young enough to pose a threat to the public.
Defense lawyers argued that Ressam faces deportation back to Algeria and likely further imprisonment there once released from U.S. custody. They also said he would most certainly be a marked man, viewed by groups such as al Qaeda as a traitor for the cooperation he gave U.S. authorities before his recantation.
Disputing prosecutors' assertions that the information he provided was of little value, defense lawyers said Ressam gave more than 70 interviews to prosecutors from the United States and several other Western countries. They said he gave dozens of names authorities could act on, as well as vital information about recruitment, training, organization and financing of Islamist militant groups.
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