**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.
As he was helping authorities with details about al-Qaeda training in Afghanistan at the time, he was not sentenced.
But he was sentenced in 2005 after he had ceased co-operating.
On Tuesday, 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.
Ressam was arrested as he crossed the US-Canadian border with explosives on the eve of the new millennium.
He stopped co-operating with US authorities in 2003 after being placed in solitary confinement.