Moussaoui says he wants more 9/11s

catstevens · May 10, 2006

Moussaoui says he lied about his 9/11 involvement, asks to withdraw guilty plea
(AP) 9 May 2006

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia - Convicted Sept. 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui says he lied on the witness stand about being involved in the terrorist plot and wants to withdraw his guilty plea and go to trial. The judge turned him down. US District Judge Leonie Brinkema denied Moussaoui’s request Monday afternoon, saying the motion was “too late” under federal rules.Moussaoui said he was “extremely surprised” that he was sentenced to life in prison instead of execution and now believes he can get a fair trial from an American jury.In a motion filed Monday, Moussaoui said he testified on March 27 that he was supposed to hijack a fifth plane on Sept. 11, 2001, and fly it into the White House “even though I knew that was a complete fabrication.”A federal court jury spared the 37-year-old Frenchman the death penalty last Wednesday. On Thursday, Brinkema gave him six life sentences, to run as two consecutive life terms, in the federal supermax prison at Florence, Colorado.As she handed down the sentence, Brinkema told Moussaoui that he could appeal the life term but that she doubted he would win. “I believe it would be an act of futility,” she said.The judge also pointed out that, although he could appeal the sentence, he had lost his right to appeal his conviction when he pled guilty in April 2005. “You waived that right,” she said.Explaining his latest reversal, Moussaoui said in an affidavit:“I had thought I would be sentenced to death based on the emotions and anger toward me for the deaths on Sept. 11. But after reviewing the jury verdict and reading how the jurors set aside their emotions and disgust for me and focused on the law and the evidence ... I now see that it is possible that I can receive a fair trial even with Americans as jurors.”Moussaoui’s court-appointed lawyers told the court that they filed the motion even though a federal rule “prohibits a defendant from withdrawing a guilty plea after imposition of sentence.” They did so anyway, they said, because of their “problematic relationship with Moussaoui” and the fact that new lawyers have yet to be appointed to replace them.The defense lawyers were not immediately available for comment Monday. Brinkema said they would be replaced after they filed any appeal Moussaoui might want.The motion said Moussaoui told his lawyers Friday that he wanted to withdraw his guilty plea because when he entered it his “understanding of the American legal system was completely flawed.”In an attached three-page affidavit, Moussaoui cited his new opinion of American jurors and wrote that he now believes he has a fair chance “to prove that I did not have any knowledge of and was not a member of the plot to hijack planes and crash them into buildings on Sept. 11, 2001.”“I wish to withdraw my guilty plea and ask the court for a new trial to prove my innocence of the Sept. 11 plot,” Moussaoui wrote. “I have never met (lead 9/11 hijacker) Mohammed Atta and, while I may have seen a few of the other hijackers ... (in Afghanistan), I never knew them or anything about their operation.”Explaining his twists and turns, Moussaoui said, “Solitary confinement made me hostile toward everyone, and I began taking extreme positions to fight the system.”Moussaoui said that, coupled with his inability to get a Muslim lawyer, led him to distrust his lawyers when they told him he could be convicted of being an Al Qaeda member but acquitted of involvement in 9/11.Moussaoui wrote that he pleaded guilty because he mistakenly thought the Supreme Court would immediately review his objection to being denied the opportunity to call captured enemy combatant witnesses to buttress his claim of not being involved in the 9/11 plot.An appeals court agreed with the government that national security would be at risk if captured operatives like 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed testified or were even questioned by Moussaoui’s lawyers. Instead, statements taken from their interrogations were read to the jury.Shaikh Mohammed’s statements said Moussaoui was never considered for the 9/11 plot, only a later attack.Moussaoui shocked the courtroom at his sentencing trial when he recanted his four-year-old claim of having nothing to do with 9/11. When he pleaded guilty in 2005, he had explained that he was to hijack a 747 jetliner and fly it into the White House at some later date if the United States refused to release a radical Egyptian sheik who is serving a life term for terrorist acts in New York.But when he testified, Moussaoui claimed that the 747 was to be a fifth plane hijacked on Sept. 11 and that Richard Reid, now imprisoned for a December 2001 shoe bombing attempt aboard a trans-Atlantic flight, was to be on his hijacking team.That testimony revived the government’s flagging case in the first part of the sentencing trial.On April 3, the jury found Moussaoui eligible for the death penalty. It apparently accepted prosecutors’ arguments that by withholding information from federal agents who arrested him on Aug. 16, 2001, he bore responsibility for at least one death on 9/11 by preventing the agents from identifying and stopping some hijackers.Nevertheless, the same jury was unable to unanimously find that Moussaoui, who was
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Peace and love

Yours Sincerely,

Cat Stevens

Pointbreak · May 10, 2006

Do you have a point to make?

catstevens · May 10, 2006

When it comes to US, some people behave childishly , don't take it seriously, etc etc they are playing, yet, some are bothering themselves by discussing and talking about such people seriously.
Silly plays

Peace and love

Yours Sincerely,

Cat Stevens

Pressed_Rat · May 10, 2006

shaggie said:

Moussaoui is a clown. He contradicts his own statements from one day to the next. It figures he was the only one to get caught.

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Maybe because he's mind-controlled. Duh!

Pressed_Rat · May 10, 2006

Moussaoui is nothing but a patsy taking the fall for the REAL criminals in the government! It's easy to manipulate a mentally deranged person like Moussaoui. He perfectly fits the description of a mind-controlled patsy. People are so DUMB for believing this shit! You people are so tranced that you believe everything the media tells you, despite no evidence being presented. Morons.

cynical_otter · May 10, 2006

Pressed_Rat said:

Moussaoui is nothing but a patsy taking the fall for the REAL criminals in the government! It's easy to manipulate a mentally deranged person like Moussaoui. He perfectly fits the description of a mind-controlled patsy. People are so DUMB for believing this shit! You people are so tranced that you believe everything the media tells you, despite no evidence being presented. Morons.
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Forgot to take your meds again?

Pressed_Rat · May 10, 2006

cynical_otter said:

Forgot to take your meds again?
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What was that, slave?

Pointbreak · May 10, 2006

Pressed Shape Changing Time Travelling Lizard Jew said:

It's easy to manipulate a mentally deranged person.
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Hence the popularity of Alex Jones.

cynical_otter · May 10, 2006

Pressed_Rat said:

What was that, slave?
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Quit dreaming.

Angel_Headed_Hipster · May 11, 2006

"When it comes to US, some people behave childishly" yeah like pointbreak bringing up shape shifting lizard jews even know that has nothing to do with 9/11 and the fact it was an inside job, that has nothing to do with conspiracy theories of lizard time travelers you retart, this is serious.

cynical_otter · May 11, 2006

Angel_Headed_Hipster said:

"When it comes to US, some people behave childishly" yeah like pointbreak bringing up shape shifting lizard jews even know that has nothing to do with 9/11 and the fact it was an inside job, that has nothing to do with conspiracy theories of lizard time travelers you retart, this is serious.
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As serious as you calling PB a "retart" rather then "retard"?

WTFery is a retart? A recooked tart? A whore that comes out of retirement?

TEH INTARWEBZ IS SIRIUS BIZZNIZZ!

Last Stand · May 11, 2006

matthew said:

September 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui said on Thursday he had no regrets for those who died in the hijacked plane attacks and told jurors in his death penalty trial he wished "there would be more pain."

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Thats what happens when poor black guys watch to much MTV.

Angel_Headed_Hipster · May 13, 2006

cynical_otter said:

As serious as you calling PB a "retart" rather then "retard"?

WTFery is a retart? A recooked tart? A whore that comes out of retirement?

TEH INTARWEBZ IS SIRIUS BIZZNIZZ!
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ok again another example of people on the forums using a spelling mistake to discredit me and other people...why don't you argue the actual facts otter, and stop spewing out arguments about a spelling error.

cynical_otter · May 13, 2006

Angel_Headed_Hipster said:

ok again another example of people on the forums using a spelling mistake to discredit me and other people...why don't you argue the actual facts otter, and stop spewing out arguments about a spelling error.
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I wasn't trying to argue facts with you. I was mocking you.

catstevens · May 23, 2006

Bin Laden says Moussaoui not part of Sept 11 –tape

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Wednesday May 24, 12:02 AM

DUBAI (Reuters) - Osama bin Laden said Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person convicted in a U.S. court for the September 11 attacks, had nothing to do with the operations, according to a Web site audiotape released on Tuesday. The speaker on the tape, attributed to bin Laden, said he had personally assigned tasks to the 19 hijackers who staged the attacks on U.S. cities which killed about 3,000 people. "The truth is that he has no connection whatsoever with the events of September 11. I am certain of what I say because I was responsible for entrusting the 19 brothers ... with the raids," said the man, who sounded like the leader of al Qaeda. The authenticity of the tape posted on a Web site often used by Al Qaeda could not be immediately verified. "U.S. intelligence is reviewing the tape in an effort to determine whether or not it's authentic. At this point there's no reason to doubt that it's real," a U.S. counterterrorism official told Reuters. Moussaoui was sentenced on May 4 to life in prison with no chance of release, ending 4-1/2 years of legal wrangling over his fate. The 37-year-old French citizen of Moroccan descent pleaded guilty last year to conspiracy in connection with the attacks, in which hijacked airliners were flown into buildings in New York City and Washington D.C. "The participants in September 11th were two groups: pilots and support teams for each pilot in order to control the aircraft. And since Zacarias Moussaoui was learning how to fly, it follows that he was not the 20th person in the teams which helped to control the airplanes, as your (U.S.) government previously claimed," said the speaker in a message to Americans.
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__________________________

UNDER PRESSURE

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Some U.S. officials initially said they believed Moussaoui was to have taken part in the September 11 attacks as a 20th hijacker. Others later said he was supposed to have been part of a second wave of attacks that were not carried out. "His confession that he was assigned to participate in those raids is a false confession which no intelligent person doubts is a result of the pressure put upon him for the past four and a half years," the speaker said. Commenting on the remarks, the U.S. official said: "What it is more than anything else is a part of his continuing propaganda campaign and an effort on his part to suggest 'hey, I know what happened. I was the one who was responsible for it.' He feels the need to reiterate that." He said out of hundreds of people held on suspicion of links to the attacks only two captives had a connection to the attacks, but did not name them. "I call to memory my brothers the prisoners in Guantanamo, may Allah free them all, and I state a fact, about which I am also certain; All the prisoners of Guantanamo, who were captured in 2001 and the first half of 2002 ... had no connection whatsoever to the events of September 11," he said. The U.S. Administration was holding the suspected militants to justify the hefty costs of its war against "mujahideen". "Many of them have no connection with al Qaeda...," he said listing two Al Jazeera television workers -- Tayseer Alouni and Sami al-Hajj. Syrian-born Alouni was convicted by a Spanish court for conspiring with al Qaeda militants and Sudanese cameraman Hajj is held in Guantanamo with no known charge.

(Additional reporting by Caroline Drees in Washington)
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*Peace and love*

Yours Sincerely,

Cat Stevens

catstevens · May 24, 2006

Update

US says voice on audio tape is Bin Laden’s
(Reuters)
24 May 2006
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WASHINGTON - An audio recording in which Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden says convicted September 11 plotter Zacarias Moussaoui played no role in the attacks is authentic, a US intelligence official said on Wednesday.“Following a technical analysis it has been revealed that the voice is indeed Osama bin Laden,” said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.In the audiotape, posted on a Web site often used by Al Qaeda, bin Laden also said he had personally assigned tasks to the 19 hijackers who staged the attacks on US cities that killed about 3,000 people.
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*Peace and love*

Yours Sincerely,

Cat Stevens

catstevens · May 25, 2006

Update

Bin Laden’s Moussaoui statement could affect appeal trial: lawyer
(AFP) 24 May 2006
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PARIS - A statement by Osama bin Laden clearing Zacarias Moussaoui of any role in the September 11 attacks could be used as evidence at the Frenchman’s US appeal trial, one of his lawyers said on Wednesday. “One can imagine that such a statement would be part of the discussions before the appeals court,” Francois Roux told French radio Europe 1.“In itself, it’s nothing very new since the people directly involved in the attacks, who have long been detained by the United States, have already said that Zacarias Moussaoui played no role in the attacks.“Obviously, a confirmation coming from Osama bin Laden would strengthen these statements,” he said.According to an unauthenticated audio recording broadcast on the Internet Tuesday, the Al Qaeda leader said that Moussaoui had falsely confessed to being a September 11 plotter during his US trial.The 37-year-old Frenchman of Moroccan origin -- the only man convicted over the attacks, which left nearly 3,000 people dead -- was sentenced this month to life imprisonment without parole.Moussaoui told the court he would have piloted a jet into the White House had he not been arrested beforehand. He later tried in vain to withdraw his guilty plea.His lawyers have appealed the sentence, but legal experts doubt that the appeals court in Richmond, Virginia -- seen as the most conservative in the United States -- will agree to a review.
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*Peace and love*

Yours Sincerely,

Cat Stevens

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