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Ahmed Ressam

  • Blogs

    March 14, 2012

    Ahmed Ressam: Complicated Soul or Determined Terrorist? Ninth Circuit Weighs In

    Who is the real Ahmed Ressam? That is the baffling and fascinating question that once again emerges in light of this week's 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling vacating the "millennial bomber's" 22-year sentence.

  • News

    September 28, 2011

    The Evolution of John McKay

    How a Republican aristocrat and loyal Bush soldier turned into a marijuana activist and public pot-stirrer.

  • News

    July 27, 2011

    Nowhere-Near-the-Border Patrol in Forks

    How a flush government agency found trouble in the coastal home of Twilight.

  • Blogs

    August 23, 2010

    World Trade Center Beams Arrive - Or Return - to the State that Helped Build, Destroy Towers

    ​Weekend news reports recount the first arrival in Washington state of steel I-beams from the demolished World Trade Center, destined to become part of a Sept. 11 memorial in Kitsap County. It's likely the beams were actually returning to Washington state - made in Seattle by part of the conso ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2010

    John McKay, Other US Attorneys: No Justice

    ​The Strange Case of the Fired US Attorneys - Seattle's John McKay among them - has been officially closed by the Justice Department with a finding of political but no criminal violations. The Bush administration broke only the laws of decency and fairness by manipulating the justice system, i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2010

    Ninth Circuit Throws Judge John Coughenour to Conservative Lions with Ahmed Ressam Ruling

    The 9th Circuit ruling on Ressam was a "pigs can fly" moment, according to one columnist.​Conservative blogger Michelle Malkin had already labeled Seattle-based federal Judge John Coughenour "the terrorists' little helper" as well as "an embarrassment to conservatives and an impediment to winn ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2008

    Ressam: Same Ol'...

    After three years and hundreds of thousands of tax dollars spent on appeals, would-be Millennium  terrorist Ahmed Ressam was re-given his 22-year sentence today in Seattle. The government said it would appeal.Ressam recanted earlier testimony he'd given that helped the U.S. in other cases, but ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2008

    Seattle's Border Xing

    A border checkpoint in downtown Seattle? Ferry terminal, train station, 4th and Pike? Perfectly legal, the government says. It's right there in the books - immigration roadblocks allowed 100 air miles inland from US borders...not just with Mexico and Canada, but the coastal borders of the nation. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2008

    Ressam: Mukasey Will Argue High Court Case

    A border checkpoint in downtown Seattle? Ferry terminal, train station, 4th and Pike? Perfectly legal, the government says. It's right there in the books - immigration roadblocks allowed 100 air miles inland from US borders...not just with Mexico and Canada, but the coastal borders of the nation. ... More >>

  • News

    March 12, 2008

    Former U.S. Attorney John McKay Takes the Gloves Off on the White House

    He has written what sounds like a closing argument for locking up most of the Bush administration.

  • Blogs

    January 16, 2007

    Ressam Sentence Tossed

    He has written what sounds like a closing argument for locking up most of the Bush administration.

  • News

    September 13, 2006

    Buzz

    The Weekly names a new editor-in-chief.

  • Blogs

    September 11, 2006

    Seattle's 9/11

    The Weekly names a new editor-in-chief.

  • News

    December 29, 2004

    Rick Anderson's 2004

    It was the year of the Rainier Bear, the flu-vaccine 'shortage,' Ichiro, Bill O'Reilly's 'falafel thing,' and, of course, the re-recount.

  • News

    September 22, 2004

    Two Views of 9/11

    Whose conspiracy theory to believe: the official one, involving Ahmed Ressam, or those of possible crackpots?

  • News

    September 10, 2003

    The Big, Bad Border

    Iraq might be ground zero for Bushs terror war, but at home, one front line is our 5,000-mile border with Canada. Since 9/11, the U.S. has poured resources and manpower into Mexicanizing one of the worlds most peacefuland porousborders. But critics suggest that strategy wont work, and it could even ... More >>

  • News

    April 16, 2003

    Terror Talk

    Ahmed Ressam grows weary of informing.

  • News

    March 12, 2003

    Zarker, Pulitzers, and SeaPop

    Ahmed Ressam grows weary of informing.

  • News

    January 15, 2003

    Don't Stop the Presses

    An accounting of good newspapering in Seattle.

  • News

    January 8, 2003

    No Shelter

    Like the Cuban Missile Crisis, the North Korean threat brings the 'war' home.

  • News

    September 11, 2002

    Our Choices

    Seattle Weekly's recommendations for the Sept. 17 primary-election ballot.

  • News

    October 3, 2001

    War and liberty

    Civil liberties are threatened after Sept. 11.

  • News

    September 26, 2001

    News Clips— Terrorist talking

    Civil liberties are threatened after Sept. 11.

  • Film

    September 19, 2001

    "It was like a movie."

    In a universal phrase, a common effort to comprehend.

  • News

    September 12, 2001

    Schell's no wuss

    In a universal phrase, a common effort to comprehend.

  • News

    April 11, 2001

    News Clips— Glory/Infamy

    In a universal phrase, a common effort to comprehend.

  • News

    February 28, 2001

    News Clips— Guilt by link

    In a universal phrase, a common effort to comprehend.

  • News

    December 29, 1999

    New Fear's Eve

    Ringing in 2000 with champagne and paranoia.

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