Bush Off the Hook Again: Moussaoui Guilty Plea Means NO Trial for 9-11 Attacks

April 24, 2005

• NO Cross Examination of 9/11 Evidence. NO Adversarial Process to Uncover Facts.
  

Zacarias Moussaoui pleaded guilty yesterday to taking part in a broad al Qaeda conspiracy that resulted in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, saying Osama bin Laden personally instructed him to fly an airplane into the White House. In a hushed federal courtroom in Alexandria, the French citizen launched into the kind of heated monologue that has often marked his court appearances. He vehemently denied that he was planning to be one of the Sept. 11 hijackers and said his attack on the White House was to come later. The balding, bearded Moussaoui, 36 blasted his attorneys, calling one of them a "Judas," and said he expects "no leniency from the American" when his case comes to the sentencing phase. As he was being led from the courtroom by a team of security officers, he shouted in a thick accent, "Lord! God curse America!" The guilty plea, while marking the first conviction in a U.S. case stemming from the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon that killed nearly 3,000 people, did little to bring the nation closer to understanding the worst terrorist strike on American soil. A court document Moussaoui signed said only that he had participated in a general al Qaeda plot to fly airplanes into U.S. buildings and that bin Laden approved Moussaoui's planned attack on the White House. he complications that have prolonged the case of Moussaoui -- who is still the only person charged in the United States in connection with the Sept. 11 plot -- are far from over. U.S. District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema in Alexandria is likely to set a death penalty trial at which a jury would decide whether Moussaoui should be executed.  [more] and [more]

• Bush has Lied about Everything else. Maybe Bush is Lying About 9/11 [more]
  
• Bush Administration's total Number of Defendants Charged with Participating in 9/11: 1 Bush Administration's total Number of Defendants Convicted of Participating in 9/11: 0 [more]