Yahoo.com: A federal appeals court upheld the conviction Friday of a Virginia man convicted of joining al-Qaida and plotting to assassinate President Bush, but said that he must be resentenced.
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appealsrejected a 30-year prison term and ordered a new sentencing hearing forAhmed Omar Abu Ali. Prosecutors had argued that the judge improperlydeviated from federal sentencing guidelines that called for life in prison.
The ruling is a major victory for prosecutors in one of their most high-profile terrorism cases.