Posted on 04/13/2006 1:33:19 PM PDT by Dark Skies
Confessed al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui said Thursday it made his day to hear accounts of Americans' suffering from the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and he would like to see similar attacks "every day."
Taking the witness stand for the second time in his death-penalty trial Thursday, Moussaoui mocked a Navy sailor who wept on the stand as she described the death of two of her subordinates.
"I think it was disgusting for a military person" to cry, Moussaoui said of the testimony of Navy Lt. Nancy McKeown. "She is military, she should expect people at war with her to want to kill her."
Asked if he was happy to hear her sobbing, he said, "Make my day."
Moussaoui said he had "no regret, no remorse" about the 9/11 attacks. Asked by prosecutor Rob Spencer if he would like to see it happen again, Moussaoui responded: "Every day until we get you."
Moussaoui also said on cross-examination that he is convinced President Bush will free him before the end of his term and that he will return to London.
Prosecutor Rob Spencer tried several times to get Moussaoui to say he didn't really believe that, but Moussaoui was insistent.
"I haven't doubted it for one single second," said Moussaoui, adding that the vision came to him in a dream just like his dream of flying a plane into the White House.
He also argued that he could not get a fair trial so close to the Pentagon and he criticized U.S. support for Israel.
Moussaoui testified that he believes his court-appointed lawyers are working against him and that if he'd had control over his defense, he would have argued that he should escape the death penalty and be available for a prisoner swap if American troops are captured overseas.
Moussaoui, as defiant on the witness stand as he has been at the defendant's table throughout the trial, testified against the advice of his court-appointed lawyers and attacked them before the jury that must decide whether to sentence him to death or to spend life in prison.
Offering a lengthy explanation of why he hates Americans, Moussaoui criticized the United States' support for Israel. He said Muslims have been at war with Christians and Jews for centuries. Israel, he said, is "just a missing star in the American flag."
Moussaoui told jurors that Islam requires Muslims to be the world's superpower as he flipped through a copy of the Koran searching for verses to support his assertions. One he cited requires non-Muslim nations to pay a tribute to Muslim countries.
"We have to be the superpower. You have to be subdued. We have to be above you," Moussaoui said. "Because Americans, you are the superpower, you want to eradicate us."
At one point, defense lawyer Gerald Zerkin asked Moussaoui if he thought he was helping his case when he testified earlier that he planned to pilot a plane into the White House on Sept. 11.
"I was putting my trust in God, so from an Islamic point of view, yes," Moussaoui responded, acknowledging that non-Muslims might view his testimony as harmful to his case.
At several points during his afternoon testimony, Moussaoui acknowledged that he has lied when it has suited his interests throughout the course of his four-year case.
Defense lawyers have said Moussaoui is lying about his role in Sept. 11 — the worst terrorism attack ever on U.S. soil — in the hopes of achieving martyrdom through execution.
Moussaoui testified Thursday that "for the last four years, I have been fighting" against the death penalty. He said he considered the consequences of his previous testimony about his role in Sept. 11 and "decided to just put my trust in God, tell the truth and time will tell."
Assailing his court-appointed lawyers, Moussaoui said: "You have put your vested interest in keeping this case in your hands, above my interest to save my life."
Moussaoui suggested they preferred the fame that comes from handling a high-profile trial rather than seeking a change of venue to move the case away from Virginia, a state with a reputation for jurors amenable to the death penalty.
In April 2002, when he was serving as his own defense counsel, Moussaoui filed a motion seeking to move the trial, citing an overrepresentation of government employees in the area. He also said there was more intense media attention in the northern Virginia area due to the Sept. 11 attack on the Pentagon, which is a short distance from the courthouse.
U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema, however, rejected the claim and said Moussaoui would be able to get an impartial jury.
Zerkin had asked him if he believed that his defense team was in a conspiracy to kill him. Moussaoui responded that they have been engaged in "criminal non-assistance."
Earlier, Moussaoui's lawyers opened his defense by seeking to convince jurors to spare his life and put him in a place from which he could never escape.
James E. Aiken, the first defense witness in the second phase of Moussaoui's death-penalty trial, said Moussaoui would always require the highest level of supervision and would be isolated not only from the outside world but also from other prisoners.
"I don't care how good he is ... I don't care how compliant he is. He will be in the security envelope as long as he lives," Aiken said.
Moussaoui's defense team is expected to argue in the next few days that his life should be spared because of his limited role in the 9/11 attacks. They plan to present evidence that he is mentally ill and that his execution would only play into his dream of martyrdom.
Moussaoui is the only person charged in this country in connection with the Sept. 11 attacks. The jury deciding his fate has already declared him eligible for the death penalty by determining that his actions caused at least one death on Sept. 11.
Even though he was in jail in Minnesota at the time of the attacks, the jury ruled that lies told by Moussaoui to federal agents a month before the attacks kept them from identifying and stopping some of the hijackers.
Associated Press writer Michael J. Sniffen contributed to this report.
Spread it around!!!
Directly out of the horse's mouth.
The old media won't let it see the light of day.
I agree, killing him is what he wants, better to put him in GP for life.
And there's the rub. He's only doing what he believes is right.
Until islam ( at least Wahabbism, Salafism, Qutbism, etc) are put on trial, the non-muslim world hasn't made a dent in this enemy.
thats the point.... all of them will die for martyrdom, its codified. he is just one of the religion
And what is so creepy is that hanging him is exactly what he and a lot of those sickos want. No winning for losing here..
Approved is right - his thinking he will be receiving a hero's welcome into paradise will last about one nanosecond - and then what he will receive is a serious dose of reality.
There are many dangerous groups in this country and they are getting more militant daily.
Was it on an illegal immigrant's car? Hmmm, don't suppose you could tell. When that happens we'll be in a major heap of doo-doo.
The article said -- Confessed al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui said Thursday it made his day to hear accounts of Americans' suffering from the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and he would like to see similar attacks "every day."
Ahhh..., the typical Islamic mind at work. This is the "mindset" that the American public must recognize is at work in the Islamic world.
If it is not spoken *aloud* -- then it is *commended* (by other Muslims) in "silent agreement" -- until the day they feel brave enough to swing the sword at your neck.
Regards,
Star Traveler
Making a martyr out of him will only serve to increase his sainthood and such a thing has no deterence value.
I suggest that he be given an anesthetic and reawakened in an artificially created hell where he is shown over and over again the horrors of islam...until he begins to see the evil of it.
BTW, I suggest Jack Nicholson should play Satan/allah.
Maybe, at this point of this total nutcase trial,
he should be declared innocent;
and as soon as he leaves the stand, another Muslim looking dude should take him out with a big rifle.
Gets the US off the hook;
gets Christians off the hook;
blames Muzzies, if he misses Helen Thomas and
71 other virgins, so be it.
Total A Hole
You said -- "Enough of this sicko already. Let's hang him and be done with it."
Not at all! I think we should give him a nation-wide news conference and let him fully explain what he expects Islam to do to all Americans in this country.
I think we *need* him to be the most excellent spokesman for Islam.
I think it's absolutely marvelous that he's sayng these things. What is CAIR saying about his words, I wonder....
Come to think of it, I think we need Moussaoui to comment on what he thinks of CAIR.
Regards,
Star Traveler
I was thinking of peeling his skin off with a Vise-Grips, surgically replacing it with sewn-on pigskin, and then sending him back home sealed inside a 50-gallon drum of Korans floating in sewage.
"Actually, he wants to die. That way, he becomes a martyr (in his mind). Usually, I'm a strong supporter of the death penalty, but in this case, I'm thinking we place him in general population for life, no parole, and feed him BLT sandwiches for the rest of his life. Then when he does actually die, instead of embalming fluid, we replace his blood with that of a pig."
But, you know we couldn't do any of that! He'd be subjected to the same rules as the rest of the prison population. I don't give a damn about his evil cult. His false martyrs are all burning in He!! and I want him to join them! FRY HIM!
You said -- "Sounds like he just make the best case yet to expel and shut down every Muslim, Mosque and school in America as he stated "we will not stop until we get you"...sounds like a strong admission of guilt to me! FRY THE MURDERER!"
No, no, no... don't fry him. We'll just forget him if you do that. We need to have him around for a long while so no one can forget. Let him keep spouting those words and reminding the public of what Islam really thinks -- after ten years have gone by. Don't let people forget.
The best way to do that is to have one of the original hijackers keep speaking out on why he should have been able to fly his plane into the White House (or Congress). I would like him to keep speaking like that.
Regards,
Star Traveler
You said -- "And the ACLU wants to repeat this circus with every detainee in G'itmo..."
Oh, please, please do. We couldn't have a better group of spokesmen for Islam than that kind of group. I wish they would do it for everyone of those Islamic terrorists. That would be a bonanza -- for waking up the American public.
Regards,
Star Traveler
Maybe his dog's name is Allah.
I have a little mutt bitch named allah that is a very good dog.
Tape the son-of-a-bitch's eyes open and push him off the roof of the Empire State building.
Now we have some creative thinking.
After the gut pit send the offall off to the dog food factory.
Understand that Mooslimes hate dogs about as much as they hate pigs.
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