SAN FRANCISCO — A divided Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Monday junked the 22-year sentence imposed on the “millennium bomber” and sent the decade-old case back for a presumably harsher sentence.

The sentence for Ahmed Ressam, an Algerian national who trained at Afghan terrorist camps and was convicted of plotting to bomb Los Angeles International Airport in 1999, on the eve of the new millennium, was “substantively” unreasonable, the court said.

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