LA millennium bomb plotter\'s sentence

A US appeals court has ruled that the 22-year sentence of a man convicted of plotting a millennium eve bombing of LA International airport was too short.



Algerian Ahmed Ressam was convicted in 2001 of conspiracy to commit a terrorist act and smuggling explosives.



But he was not sentenced at that time as he was helping authorities with details about al-Qaeda training in Afghanistan.



He was sentenced in 2005 after he had ceased co-operating.



Earlier today, judges in the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the sentence, saying that as Ressam had stopped co-operating, he should get a longer sentence.



The judges also removed the Seattle trial judge from the case and assigned the re-sentencing of Ressam to another judge.