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Aicha el-Wafi, 59, says weeks of stress, a failing appetite and little sleep during the trial of her son Zacarias Moussaoui have left her a wreck. As his trial nears an end and she awaits word on whether he will be sentenced to death, Moussaoui's mother talked with TIME Paris correspondent Bruce Crumley about her son's path to Islamic extremism and what she insists is a show trial intended to make him the scapegoat for 9/11. Excerpts from the interview...
...Aicha el-Wafi: What I want to say is that the people responsible for the horrible crimes and murderous tragedy of Sept. 11 must be judged, and families of victims and all of America deserve justice. But that's not what's happening today. Who really believes Zacarias Moussaoui played a part in those attacks? He was in prison on Sept. 11, and had been for weeks. He's admitted he was in the U.S. to prepare for some plot. He's said he's a member of al-Qaeda, and proud of that. He's pleaded guilty - against...
...pleads guilty to the charges he has, yet argues he's really only guilty of something unrelated to those charges - the Sept. 11 attacks - may not be crazy, but he's not thinking logically. Which also takes us back to something Khalid Sheikh Mohammed told his interrogators: that Zacarias Moussaoui wasn't reliable enough, that he wasn't part of the Sept. 11 plot. Look at the care the others took to remain secret, not draw attention to themselves, to even play the role of the miscreant to keep anyone of suspecting their real thinking and intentions. Now look...
...This is a hard, hypothetical question, but what would you do if some al-Qaeda leader arranged for you to get the same money that families of suicide bombers in Palestine or other suicide bombers have in the past, as a kind of payment to the Moussaoui family for their martyr...
...ZACARIAS MOUSSAOUI, admitted al-Qaeda conspirator, testifying at his sentencing trial on why he hates Americans...