Word: moussaoui
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...Moussaoui went to work right away plastering the docket with pretrial motions with titles like "Motion to Stop the Cynical Comedy, Parody, of Justice Directed by DJ Brinkema," filed in July 2002, and "Motion to Stop the Pervert Game of the Fascist Bureau of Inquisition Against My Distraught Mother," filed last March. The government was not happy, fearing that Moussaoui would use the courtroom as a stage to promote al-Qaeda's cause and perhaps even send coded messages to other terrorists. At the same time, Moussaoui's fired defense lawyers, still on the case as standby counsel, worried that...
...Pakistani intelligence officers engaged in an intense fire fight with occupants of a suspected al-Qaeda safe house and captured Ramzi Binalshibh, a former housemate of some of the hijackers and an alleged coordinator of the attacks. Binalshibh's capture was a victory in the war against terrorism, but Moussaoui saw the arrest as something more practical: it offered a possible witness for his defense. He asked the court for the opportunity to depose Binalshibh. In fact, he had been named in the Moussaoui indictment, which seemed to hint that Moussaoui was to have taken Binalshibh's place...
...refused to make Binalshibh available, saying he was undergoing interrogation and that vital national-security concerns made him off limits. The clash prompted a flurry of court filings and intense discussions within Justice about whether to abandon the case and refile it in a military tribunal, where Moussaoui's rights would be more limited and intelligence issues could be kept under wraps...
...January, Brinkema said Moussaoui could take a videotaped deposition of Binalshibh, a ruling that the government quickly appealed. Binalshibh had reportedly told investigators that Moussaoui was considered too unreliable for the 9/11 attacks, did not know about them and was to be used only if absolutely necessary. In March, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-described mastermind of the 9/11 strikes, was captured in Pakistan, and three days later Moussaoui demanded access to him as well. As it turned out, Mohammed later told interrogators that Moussaoui was to be used for a separate attack unrelated to 9/11...
...beyond the court's power to compel his testimony," prosecutors said in their brief to the Fourth Circuit. But the appellate judges said it was premature for them to intervene, sending the case back to Brinkema. On July 14, the government announced it would defy her order to allow Moussaoui to depose Binalshibh. While Brinkema was mulling over sanctions, she also granted the defense access to two more witnesses held overseas, including Mohammed...