Moussaoui still a mystery to FBI tipsters
Greg Gordon
Minneapolis Star Tribune
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Alexandria, Virginia (US):
It's been 4½ years since Tim Nelson and Hugh Sims each dialed the FBI and warned that a terrorist might be in the Twin Cities, taking lessons in flying a 747 jumbo jet.
Now they wonder if their fleeting encounters with Zacarias Moussaoui -- and their separate decisions to blow the whistle on a suspicious flight school customer -- will lead to his execution.
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See Also:
9-11 jury to consider death for man who wasn't there
Jury to rule on Moussaoui fate
Families will watch Moussaoui trial live
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When testimony begins today in Moussaoui's sentencing trial, the two men who started it all will be closely monitoring the developments, hoping their lingering questions about the now-confessed Al-Qaida conspirator will be answered.
"It's a little weird to know that you're one of two guys that fingered him," said Sims, 66, of Ft. Myers, Fla., a retired military pilot who was a contract program manager for the Pan Am International Flight Academy in Eagan when Moussaoui showed up in August 2001.
"There's a certain amount of, 'Am I going to be responsible for a guy being put to death?'"I'd almost like to just see what he looks like now ... and see if his demeanor is much the same as when I met him. He comes into court and yells and screams about the terrible Americans, and America is the devil. I'd almost like to sit down and ask him, where did he get these ideas?"
Mar 05, 2006
Greg Gordon
Minneapolis Star Tribune
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Alexandria, Virginia (US):
It's been 4½ years since Tim Nelson and Hugh Sims each dialed the FBI and warned that a terrorist might be in the Twin Cities, taking lessons in flying a 747 jumbo jet.
Now they wonder if their fleeting encounters with Zacarias Moussaoui -- and their separate decisions to blow the whistle on a suspicious flight school customer -- will lead to his execution.
_____________________
See Also:
9-11 jury to consider death for man who wasn't there
Jury to rule on Moussaoui fate
Families will watch Moussaoui trial live
_____________________
When testimony begins today in Moussaoui's sentencing trial, the two men who started it all will be closely monitoring the developments, hoping their lingering questions about the now-confessed Al-Qaida conspirator will be answered.
"It's a little weird to know that you're one of two guys that fingered him," said Sims, 66, of Ft. Myers, Fla., a retired military pilot who was a contract program manager for the Pan Am International Flight Academy in Eagan when Moussaoui showed up in August 2001.
"There's a certain amount of, 'Am I going to be responsible for a guy being put to death?'"I'd almost like to just see what he looks like now ... and see if his demeanor is much the same as when I met him. He comes into court and yells and screams about the terrible Americans, and America is the devil. I'd almost like to sit down and ask him, where did he get these ideas?"
Mar 05, 2006
