MaxedOutMama
Wednesday, July 27, 2005
Splodeydopes In The News
Did the British police manage to nab one of the dud bombers?
Authorities would not confirm BBC and Sky News reports that the Tasered man was Yasin Hassan Omar, a 24-year-old Somali suspected of trying to blow up a subway train near Warren Street station.And this gave me pause. Ahmed Ressam, the "Milennium Bomber", only got 22 years. We don't know the judge's reasoning:
At least one witness said the man resembled Omar....
He said the suspect looked like Omar but could not confirm it.
"After 10 or 15 minutes, they brought a guy out. He looked like the darkest-skinned one in the photos of the four suspects released by the police — the one with the curly hair," Wilkinson said. "They had him dressed in one of those white suits. He had plastic cuffs on the front."
A federal judge on Wednesday sentenced Ahmed Ressam, the "millennium bomber" convicted of plotting to blow up Los Angeles' airport, to 22 years in prison for conspiracy to commit an international terrorist act, explosives smuggling and other criminal counts.Sigh. I wonder what the parole policy is.... Could this guy be out in 12 years or so? What kind of term should the dud bombers get? Questions, questions.
U.S. Western District Judge John Coughenour had been expected to sentence Ressam, who stopped cooperating with federal authorities in 2003, to 35 years behind bars. Prosecutors say his failure to work with them further jeopardized cases they were building against other terror suspects.
Ressam, who will get credit for the more than five years he already has spent in jail, did not speak at the hearing but offered a slight smile as he shook hands with his attorneys and interpreter after the sentencing.
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Well, he has cooperated in the past- and I suspect he will in the future. Maybe that had something to do with it.
Logical. I'm not saying the judge is wrong. Life terms bother me almost as much as the death sentence.
But my heart kind of sunk when I read it.
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But my heart kind of sunk when I read it.
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