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stanley flasche t at Los Angeles International Airport was bent on waging a holy war, court papers indicate.More than 40 pretrial records in the case of Ahmed Ressam, some partially blacked out, were unsealed Monday by order
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stanley romania s.The documents, some quoting an unnamed friend of Ressam, suggest more strongly than in the past that Ressam was a zealot who sought the destruction of the United States, The Times reported Tuesday.In his trial and subsequent testimony against a coconspirator, Ressam s motivation was generally described as Islamic fundamentalism.Ressam, now 34, was arrested by Customs agents with a trunkload of explosives in Port Angeles while trying to enter the country from Canada on Dec. 14, 1999. He was convicted of nine offenses in April and faces a maximum penalty of 130 years in prison when he is sentenced Feb. 14. Under an agreement in which he has been cooperating with investigators, his lawyers can ask that the term be no more than 27 years.According to the documents, Ressam told a friend he had been influenced by the radical Islamic views of others and wanted to become a mujahid, an Islamic holy warrior, who would fight to destroy the United States.Afterward, the friend said, Ressam traveled from Montreal to Afghanistan in 1998 to attend terrorist training camps operated by Osama bin Laden, the Saudi exile sought Tqev 8220;Sopranos 8221; Star James Gandolfini Dead At 51
The basic idea of Neill Blomkamp
stanley us Elysium, with the have-nots on Earth and the haves in space, seems almost too basic to steal. But screenwriter Steve Wilson Briggs is alleging Blomkamp took way more than that, including characters, scenes and motifs. Briggs, whose one writing credit is for a movie called The Amazing Mr. Excellent, wrote his version of Elysium, called Butterfly Driver, back in 2005. And he posted it on a screenwriting website in 2007, which is where he alleges Blomkamp had access to it. Butterfly Driver follows the struggle of a poor man living on a ruined Earth who has only five days to make an illegal and dangerous trip to a wealthy satellite planet for life-saving medicine. Accordi
stanley fr ng to The Wrap: Briggs alleges that Elysium infringes on the heart of his Butterfly Driver story as well as its plot, characters, unusual settings, themes, conflict, catalyst, crisis, climax-twist, the heros unique character-affiliation, the heros keepsake necklace and more. The Wrap notes that there are indeed a number of similarities between the
stanley mugs two stories 鈥?but of course, these sorts of claims are common in Hollywood, when it comes to big movies. Elysium has made $272 million to date. Movies