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[Schadow]

After a quick look at his new digs in Cold Stony, he now says he had nutheeeng to do with 9/11 and wants to change his plea. All the commentators are saying it's too late. BUT, there's always the ACLU lurking about and if M's court-appointed lawyers won't petition for a new trial, the ACLU will.

Count on it.

Schadow
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Capt, 8th U.S. Army, Korea '53 - '54

[kate]

LA Times

[FreeFall]

According to one of the Czech papers, he is trying to change it because the USA didn't make him a martyr by executing him, thus denying him his virgins.

Commentary by Teodor Marjanovic: "Terrorist Tried To Achieve Death; United States Denied Him It"
Monday,

May 8, 2006

Zacarias Moussaoui can forget about the 72 virgins. The Americans have not sentenced him to death, so he will not become a martyr. He will spend the rest of his life in a high security prison in Colorado, without contact with the outside world -- not even fellow prisoners will be allowed to communicate with him.

It seemed that the US judicial system would not resist the temptation to send this man to his death. He planned to hijack a plane and kill people. During his trial he mocked surviving victims of the September 11 attacks. He boasted that Usama Bin Ladin had instructed him to destroy the White House. However, the jury judged that his unrealized role in the September 11 attacks was peripheral. That was decisive.

The trial culminated at a time when in one building near the place where the Twin Towers stood in New York the bones of roughly 400 victims were found, and when sound recordings from the one flight in which travelers fought back against the attackers were presented for the first time.

It must be added that Moussaoui claims that he was supposed to be in the group that took over that plane. However, he was evidently once again merely boasting so that he would get the death sentence. Through Moussaoui the court showed the type of people against whom the world has the honor of fighting in the war on terrorism being led by the Americans. It showed that the war with adherents of the jihad is a matter of survival: either us or them.

However, at the same time it left open the related question of what the United States will do with other hostages. Among them are real, not peripheral, architects of September 11, specifically Khalid Sheikh Mohammad and Ramzi bin al-Shaibah.

Washington claims that it will not bring them to trial yet, because it is still interrogating them. Really? Even four and half years after September 11? The suspicion arises that the United States is hesitating rather out of fears that during the trial it could come to light that they were tortured. The true aim of a United States traumatized by terrorism must be trials with these people, the real organizers. Whatever comes to light during the process.

(Description of Source: Prague Mlada Fronta Dnes (Internet Version-WWW) in Czech -- best-selling, independent, center-right daily; most popular print source among decision makers, who utilize the paper for publicizing their positions on key issues)