"You are referring to me?" Moussaoui asked. "Are you certain it's me?"
Posted on 03/08/2006 7:41:37 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo
The sentencing jury listened to a tape of the suspect, who questioned a witness while acting as his own lawyer.
Acting as his own lawyer during taped testimony played for a jury on Wednesday, confessed Al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui got a captive Malaysian terrorist to finger the man who talked of flying a plane into the White House. "He looks exactly like you," Faiz Bafana told Moussaoui.
"You are referring to me?" Moussaoui asked. "Are you certain it's me?"
"I'm certain."
The bizarre exchange, videotaped in 2002, was played on the third day of Moussaoui's penalty trial, in which a jury must decide whether he should die for conspiring with the Sept. 11 suicide hijackers to crash U.S. jetliners into buildings.
Prosecutors presented the transcontinental testimony of Bafana, a onetime senior member of the Southeast Asian terrorist group Jemaah Islamayah, as they began to chronicle Moussaoui's activities in advance of the Sept. 11 attacks. Bafana was arrested in December 2001 in Singapore and has been linked to bombing plots in Singapore and the Philippines.
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Dumb terrorist: Always know the answer, before you ask the question.
"You are referring to me?" Moussaoui asked. "Are you certain it's me?"
I do feel obliged to point out however that he was NOT the guy designated to be the 20th hijacker.
He's always been referred to as number 20, in the media. We may never actually know. He maintains that he was not #20.
I personally don't believe him.
And, I personally don't like the fact that he was training for his mission 20 minutes from my house.
Priceless.
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