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When Zacarias Moussaoui was enrolled in flight school in Eagan, Minn., he could have easily looked up in the sky to see the kind of airplane he wanted to fly. Along the approach to the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport, 747s screamed overhead day and night. His flight instructor at Pan Am International Flight Academy found Moussaoui genial but clueless and totally unable to explain why he wanted to pilot a 747. The school's administration called the FBI, and he was arrested nearby on Aug. 16, 2001. When investigators interviewed the 33-year-old French Moroccan and asked him whether...
Less than a month after he was locked up, 19 al-Qaeda operatives boarded four commercial jetliners and turned them into aerial bombs, killing more than 3,000 people in the worst terrorist attacks ever on U.S. soil. Within days, investigators began piecing together intriguing parallels between Moussaoui's actions and those of the hijackers. He had come to the U.S. to attend flight school, just like the hijackers; he too had purchased knives; he too possessed flight manuals for commercial jets. Three months to the day after the attacks, Attorney General John Ashcroft proudly announced a showstopping list...
Nearly two years later, the government's case, which had been billed as a slam dunk, is a shambles. On Oct. 2, U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema said prosecutors could not seek the death penalty for Moussaoui and could not even allege that he had a link to the 9/11 conspiracy. She put those shackles on the government's case because it had denied the defendant, on national-security grounds, access to witnesses who were in a position to say whether he was part of the 9/11 gang--Ramzi Binalshibh, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other key al-Qaeda figures...
...record can show that I constantly rejected any participation in 9/11 ... I was part of a different operation, with different al-Qaeda member and target." ZACARIAS MOUSSAOUI, the only person charged in a U.S. court in connection with the Sept. 11 attacks, in a motion written in January and made public last week...
RULED OUT. The death penalty in the trial of ZACARIAS MOUSSAOUI, 35, self-professed al-Qaeda loyalist and the only defendant to be tried in connection with the Sept. 11 attacks; by U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema; in Alexandria, Va. The ruling also barred from the trial any evidence or testimony linking Moussaoui to 9/11. Brinkema said Moussaoui could not get a fair trial after the Justice Department, on national security grounds, refused to allow testimony sought by the defense from other captured suspects. Prosecutors will decide whether to appeal or move the trial to a military tribunal...