Word: moussaoui
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...traveled recently. But despite some fervent speculation, FBI agents so far have no evidence that Reid conspired with others in his attempt to ignite explosives hidden in his sneakers while flying from Paris to Miami on Dec. 22. Reid did attend the same London mosque as Zacarias Moussaoui, now on trial for terrorism conspiracy in U.S. federal court. But neither the FBI nor the U.S. intelligence community has substantiated a London newspaper report that British intelligence wiretapped conversations between the two. "That sounds a little bit too good to be true at this point," says an agent...
...develops, Reid will be indicted in Boston, where he was arrested after his American Airlines flight made an emergency landing. If Justice Department officials felt he was part of a larger conspiracy, presumably his case would be transferred to the terrorism task force in northern Virginia, which is prosecuting Moussaoui (who sought last week to have his trial televised) and other central figures in the Sept. 11 case...
...Moussaoui's trial will be closely watched, not only for the alleged terrorist himself but for the locale and the presiding judge. The Alexandria, Virginia court is known as the "rocket docket," for the deliberate speed of its proceedings, and Judge Brinkema is considered the lone progressive in an overwhelmingly conservative court. There is some conjecture Moussaoui's attorneys may push for a change of venue, given the proximity to the Pentagon attack site...
...While federal prosecutors have until March 29th to decide if they will request the death penalty, most consider the deadline a mere formality. Less certain is the strength of the actual case against Moussaoui - and how well the six charges will stand up against legal scrutiny. Some experts consider the case largely circumstantial, citing the lack of hard evidence against Moussaoui. The case, they argue, is based primarily on allegations that Mousssaoui's behavior followed patterns similar that of the actual hijackers: attending flight training school, inquiring into crop dusting procedures, and apparently receiving funding from Ramsey bin al-Shied...
...When you read the indictment, it reads like a laundry list of different activities by different people in different parts of the world," says Barry Pollack, a criminal defense attorney and partner at the Washington, D.C. firm of Nixon Peabody. "What his defense attorneys need to do is separate Moussaoui from the actions of other people." In a normal case, that might not be so hard - there doesn't seem to be any physical evidence linking him to the conspiracy - but in this case, the charge itself will work against the defendant, says Pollack. "The conspiracy charge is a very...