NO Cross Examination of 9/11 Evidence. NO Adversarial Process to Uncover Facts.
Zacarias Moussaoui pleaded guilty
yesterday to taking part in a broad al Qaeda conspiracy that resulted
in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, saying Osama bin Laden personally
instructed him to fly an airplane into the White House. In a hushed
federal courtroom in Alexandria, the French citizen launched into the
kind of heated monologue that has often marked his court appearances.
He vehemently denied that he was planning to be one of the Sept. 11
hijackers and said his attack on the White House was to come later. The
balding, bearded Moussaoui, 36 blasted his attorneys, calling one of
them a "Judas," and said he expects "no leniency from the American"
when his case comes to the sentencing phase. As he was being led from
the courtroom by a team of security officers, he shouted in a thick
accent, "Lord! God curse America!" The guilty plea, while marking the
first conviction in a U.S. case stemming from the attacks on the World
Trade Center and Pentagon that killed nearly 3,000 people, did little
to bring the nation closer to understanding the worst terrorist strike
on American soil. A court document Moussaoui signed said only that he
had participated in a general al Qaeda plot to fly airplanes into U.S.
buildings and that bin Laden approved Moussaoui's planned attack on the
White House. he complications that have prolonged the case of Moussaoui
-- who is still the only person charged in the United States in
connection with the Sept. 11 plot -- are far from over. U.S. District
Judge Leonie M. Brinkema in Alexandria is likely to set a death penalty
trial at which a jury would decide whether Moussaoui should be
executed. [more] and [more]
Bush has Lied about Everything else. Maybe Bush is Lying About 9/11 [more]
Bush
Administration's total Number of Defendants Charged with Participating
in 9/11: 1 Bush Administration's total Number of Defendants Convicted
of Participating in 9/11: 0 [more]
