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Moussaoui

Edgy DC Mar 27 2006 01:07 PM

Apparently he just came clean on the stand whle his lawyers tore their hair out.

Yancy Street Gang Mar 27 2006 01:13 PM

Interesting. By "came clean" do you mean he confessed that he was involved with the September 11 crowd?

Yancy Street Gang Mar 27 2006 01:15 PM

From CNN.com: ]ALEXANDRIA, Virginia (CNN) -- Al Qaeda conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui testified at his sentencing trial Monday that he knew about the terrorist group's plan to crash airplanes into the World Trade Center. "I had knowledge that the two towers would be hit, but I did not have the details," Moussaoui told jurors after taking the stand in his own defense. He said he was supposed to pilot a plane into the White House, with convicted shoe bomber Richard Reid as a member of his crew. Moussaoui said he did not know in advance the precise date of Twin Towers attack, which unfolded the morning of September 11, 2001. The only person tried in the United States in connection with the 9/11 attacks, Moussaoui testified against the advice of his court-appointed lawyers. Moussaoui, 37, a Frenchman of Moroccan heritage rarely speaks to his defense attorneys. He told them last week in court that he would take the stand "whether you want it or not."

MFS62 Mar 27 2006 01:16 PM

Yancy Street Gang wrote: Interesting. By "came clean" do you mean he confessed that he was involved with the September 11 crowd? Yes, in the planning. But he said he never intended to participate in the hijackings. Stay tuned. Edit: more on his testimony: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060327/ap_on_re_us/moussaoui_11;_ylt=Ak8NOcjNSHQlA2v2gp3R9DkTv5UB;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl Later

Nymr83 Mar 27 2006 02:01 PM

due process really sucks sometimes.

Willets Point Mar 27 2006 05:23 PM

Great, the Bush Admin. will use this as a stump to defend torture. "If we could have tortured Moussaoui back in August 2001 we would have been able to get all this info out of him and saved 1000's of lives, but those American-hating liberals don't want us to torture people." And people will buy it.

Nymr83 Mar 28 2006 11:08 PM

i am fully in favor of torturing terrorists in "ticking bomb" cases- that is to say when they are a known (not just suspected) part of an imminent threat and the information they have will save american lives if forced out of them. i do not, however, condone torturing anyone who even might be innocent or when the threat is of an unknown or speculative nature, so my criteria would not be met by this case,