Millennium bomber will represent self

SEATTLE Would-be millennium bomber Ahmed Ressam can speak for himself when he is resentenced Dec. 3 in federal court in Seattle.

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports a federal magistrate decided Thursday that Ressam can represent himself and that public defender Tom Hillier will remain as his backup.

Ressam previously said he doesn’t trust his lawyers.

The Algerian was arrested in Port Angeles in 1999 with explosives and convicted of plotting to bomb Los Angeles International Airport around Jan. 1, 2000.

Judge John Coughenour sentenced Ressam to 22 years in prison in 2005.

The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the conviction but sent the case back to the judge to recalculate the sentence.