Prosecutors say Moussaoui could have prevented 9/11
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Alexandria, Virginea (US):
Opening its argument for executing al-Qaeda conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui, the government said Monday he "lied so that murders could follow" on Sept. 11, 2001.
But the defense portrayed Moussaoui as a buffoon isolated even by al-Qaeda and urged jurors to deny him the martyrdom of a death sentence.In a heavily guarded courthouse just miles from the Pentagon, where some of the 2,972 victims of Sept. 11 died, prosecutor Rob Spencer opened his case by telling the jury that "even though he was in jail on Sept. 11, he did his part as a loyal al-Qaeda soldier."
"Had he not lied to agents in 2001, the U.S. government would have stopped those deaths, or at least some of them," Spencer asserted. Court-appointed defense attorney Edward MacMahon scoffed at that idea. He termed Moussaoui's dreams of being a terrorist "sound and fury signifying nothing."
Mar 07, 2006
AP
USA Today
________
Alexandria, Virginea (US):
Opening its argument for executing al-Qaeda conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui, the government said Monday he "lied so that murders could follow" on Sept. 11, 2001.
But the defense portrayed Moussaoui as a buffoon isolated even by al-Qaeda and urged jurors to deny him the martyrdom of a death sentence.In a heavily guarded courthouse just miles from the Pentagon, where some of the 2,972 victims of Sept. 11 died, prosecutor Rob Spencer opened his case by telling the jury that "even though he was in jail on Sept. 11, he did his part as a loyal al-Qaeda soldier."
"Had he not lied to agents in 2001, the U.S. government would have stopped those deaths, or at least some of them," Spencer asserted. Court-appointed defense attorney Edward MacMahon scoffed at that idea. He termed Moussaoui's dreams of being a terrorist "sound and fury signifying nothing."
Mar 07, 2006
