Ahmed Ressam, 36, was to have been sentenced Friday, but prosecutors received a yearlong extension so he could fulfill his agreement to testify. Among the alleged al-Qaida operatives he's expected to testify against are Abu Doha, another alleged bin Laden top operative who awaits extradition to the United States from Britain, and Zacarias Moussaoui, the so-called 20th hijacker whom Ressam has said he saw training in Afghanistan. In testimony and debriefings, Ressam, who was arrested in Port Angeles in 1999, has identified Abu Zubaydah, as the "emir" of bin Laden's terrorist-training camps in Afghanistan.
If we can turn Zubaydah as well as we did Ressam, we can tear up the entire al-Qaeda network, root and branch, to include the money and dogma guys behind it. |