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Personality: Moussaoui Zacarias
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(Daily) ------------------------ (24.05.06) (S) CLIP: Bin Laden says Moussaoui had no role in 9/11. (13.05.06) (S) ?:?: One juror's vote saved Moussaoui from the death penalty. (05.05.06) (S) NY: M. Valsania: Moussaoui is being sent to Florence, Colorado, the U.S.s most protected maximum security prison. He will be in isolation 23 hours a day. Rudolph Giuliani wanted him executed. However, a French foreign office spokesman said France might seek Mousaoui's extradition. (05.05.06) (W) ED: 'Though we sympathize with those who believe (Moussaoui) should have paid with his life, in the end the system was able to mete out some justice...While the courts - which must also deal with ordinary crime - can handle one Moussaoui circus, hundreds of such cases could cripple America's justice system.' (04.05.06) (S) NY: C. Poggi: Moussaoui gets 'prison for life'. In the end the majority opinion of the jury 'was that he knew much less about 9/11 than he pretended.' (26.04.06) (S) ?:?: A U.S. jury will now decide whether Moussaoui, 37, receives the death sentence if he is 'found to be directly responsible for the 9/11 deaths of almost 3,000 people'. (25.04.06) (W) CLIP: U.S. jury opens debate on the fate of Moussaoui. His defense asks them to deny him martyrdom. http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110008241 The Meaning of Moussaoui And the lesson of the Flight 93 tape. Friday, April 14, 2006 12:01 a.m. EDT We wonder how many Americans got the same eerie chill that we did reading the partial transcript yesterday of the final 31 minutes of United Airlines Flight 93 on September 11, 2001. Especially in this holy season of Easter and Passover, it was disturbing to read the hijackers swear fanatic allegiance to another great religion as they squeezed the life out of pleading flight attendants and pointed the jet down to smash in a Pennsylvania field. 10:00:22: Oh Allah, Oh Allah, Oh Gracious. 10:00:25 (passenger, struggling to enter cockpit): "In the cockpit. If we don't, we'll die." 10:01:08 (hijacker, in Arabic): Is that it? I mean, shall we pull it down? 10:01:09: Yes, put it in it, and pull it down. 10:03:02: Allah is the greatest. As hard as it is to hear it, this is the voice of the threat we still face. It cares only about its own fanatic goals, not about the innocents it kills or the destruction it causes. It can't be deterred in any rational sense. But if we are to survive this ideology in an age of proliferating WMD, maybe we have to look it square in the eye. The eye, for one, of Zacarias Moussaoui, whose trial in connection with 9/11 revealed the Flight 93 tapes. While he has tried every imaginable stunt during his long trial, the one thing Moussaoui has never shown is remorse. His only expressed regret is that he wasn't able to ram his own plane into the White House, as he says was his plan. Reporters in the courtroom say he smiled broadly this month when former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani described the horrors of the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center. Yesterday Moussaoui declared that "You [Americans] have to be subdued. We [Muslims] have to be above you." The further we move away from 9/11 without another domestic attack, the more tempting it is to believe that awful day was an aberration, to think that we can return to normalcy if we merely leave Iraq and the other Middle Eastern regimes to their own purposes. But the forces of radical Islam aren't going to leave us alone merely because we decide that resisting them is too hard. The men and women on that plane weren't soldiers overseas; they were traveling to work, or on vacation, or to their homes within the United States. The main political difference in the U.S. today is between those who appreciate that Islamic terrorists represent an existential threat to American life and liberty and are prepared to do what it takes to defeat them, and those who think the threat is overstated and can be ameliorated or appeased. Only yesterday, al Qaeda kingpin Ayman al-Zawahiri exulted in a videotape posted on the Internet that "the enemy has begun to falter." He's wrong, but the transcript of Flight 93 is a reminder of our fate if we do. ------------------- (13.04.06) (S) NY: M.P.: The Moussaoui jury hears the black box tape from UA 93 which crashed in Pennsylvania. The hero passenger was Todd Beamer. (07.04.06) (F) VIRGINIA: R's: An emotional Guiliani testifies against Moussaoui who cries out after viewing 'the twin towers collapsing' after judge and jury were gone for a morning break:' "Burn in the U.S.A." - apparently paraphrasing a Bruce Springsteen song.' (04.04.06) (S) NY: M. Valsania: Although Moussaoui admited to 6 charges, 3 of which carry a possible death sentence, his links to al Qaeda and 9/11 'are not without doubts'. (04.04.06) (W) CLIP: A U.S. jury says Moussaoui is eligible for the death penalty. (28.03.06) (S) NY: R. Miraglia: At his trial, Moussaoui takes the stand against the advice of his lawyers. Having already admitted a (tangental) role in 9/11, this trial is to decide whether or not to impose a death-penalty. Its venue has been moved from New York state where there is none. He claimed to have met personally with Osama bin Laden who asked him to fly a jet into the White House. Moussaoui said he planned to do this in concert with Richard Reid, "the shoe bomber". (20.03.06) (W) CLIP: The Moussaoui death-penalty trial is to proceed with 'a substitute witness list'. (17.03.06) (W) OP: David B. Rivkin, Jr & Lee A. Casey - 'lawyers in Washington'. 'The Bush administration erred in allowing the Moussaoui trial to take place in a regular criminal court'. 'Instead, he could and should, hjave been brough before a special military commission.' 'Military commissions are less protective of the individual and far harsher that the civilians justice system...' (17.03.06) (W) WP/DC: J. Markon+: Carla J. Martin, a former flight attendant, is the U.S. government lawyer who is accused to coaching witnesses. 'Nearly all judges invoke (as Judge Brinkema did) what is known as the "rule on witnesses," which says that witnesses can't watch the trial.' (16.03.06) (W) CLIP: U.S. prosecutors 'asserted their death-penalty case...is hobbled by a judge's dismissal of evidence'. (15.03.06) (F) DC: D. Savage+: The Moussaoui 'trial setback' is only one of a series of anti-terrorism blunders leaving the 'White House red-faced'. (15.03.06) (S) CLIP: The Moussaoui trial will continue without trainted witnesses. (15.03.06) (W) CLIP: A U.S. judge allows the death penalty in Moussaoui trial. She bans key evidence. (14.03.06) (F) DC: D. Sevastpulo: A lawyer for the U.S. government coached FAA witnesses, something a U.S. prosecutor called "horrendously wrong". (14.03.06) (S) NY: R. Miraglia: Judge in Moussaoui case upbraids the U.S. for coach witnesses. (14.03.06) (W) CLIP: A U.S. judge will decide whether the government's witness coaching should rule out the death penalty. (07.03.06) (S) DC:?: Moussaoui, 37, risks a death sentence. France's minister of justice, Pascal Clement, that any evidence against him supplied by France used "directly or indirectly will not be used to sustain a sentence of death".' (07.02.06) (S) NY: C. Po.: Zacarias Moussaoui admits to membership in al Qaeda; denies being part of the 9/11 plot - he was in a U.S. jail at the time. (07.02.06) (W) CLIP: Moussaoui disavowed his lawyers as jury selection for his trial began.

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