Posted on 05/03/2006 1:44:47 PM PDT by MikeA
A federal jury decided Wednesday al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui deserves life in prison for his role in the deadliest terrorist attack in U.S. history, on Sept. 11, 2001.
On the seventh day of deliberation, the jury of nine men and three women informed Judge Leonie Brinkema that it had reached a decision. The verdict was announced at 4:30 p.m. EDT.
Moussaoui, a 37-year-old Frenchman of Moroccan descent, is the only person charged in this country in connection with the suicide jetliner hijackings that killed nearly 3,000 people at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field.
The verdict came after four years of legal maneuvering and a six-week trial that put jurors on an emotional roller coaster.
The panel of northern Virginia residents was shown gruesome never- before-released images of the carnage that day, heard the first public playing of the cockpit recorder from United Flight 93 whose passengers tried to retake the jet over Pennsylvania, and watched and listened as dozens of victims and relatives described the horrors and losses they had endured.
The nine men and three women deliberated about 40 hours. They had found Moussaoui eligible for execution after more than 16 hours of deliberations in late March and early April.
Although he was in jail on immigration violations on Sept. 11, the jury ruled that lies he told federal agents the month before the attacks kept the government from identifying and stopping some of the hijackers.
Al Qaeda has got to be laughing their butts off at this country. We're just not serious about combatting these people with an iron fist or in destroying them. We've grown too complacent.
Welcome to liberal Northern VA.
The verdict I was hoping for. Now, if they'll room him with Shecky Finkleberg, the Hassidic Homo Hammer, it'll be *perfect.*
Further confirming my belief that the West, to include the United States, is weak and collapsing.
We can't even execute someone like this? Someone who openly admits to being party to the planning of massive terrorist attack on our nation? Islamic fanatics are laughing hysterically at us today - and sadly, we deserve their derision and scorn.
At this point, we have no real chance of winning any war against al-Queda, Iraqi insurgents, the Taliban, or anyone else for that matter. We just don't have the will power or the spine to do it.
Sad really. I hope Americans rise up and turn things around, but I'm afraid we are instead marching towards further weakness and increasingly mimicking the failed Western European model.
How long do you think he will live in jail...overnight maybe!
Further evidence of the oprahfication of a once strong nation.
They will see it as more evidence that we're weak and decadent. Also, it will encourage others to follow in his footsteps. The terrorists think that if they're jailed, there's a good change they'll eventually be part of a prisoner exchange. This happens in their part of the world.
How stupid do you have to be to get on a high profile case jury in this country? Inquiring minds want to know.
And I guess that answers my questions.
At least the savage isn't being made a Islamic "martyr."
I say make him experience hell on earth while he's in federal prison; make him wish he was dead. That's the only harsher punishment. Also, until the day he dies of "natural causes," feed the jihadist animal only pork.
I find the association between him and some of my favorite cartoons offensive. :)
He is not going to be among the general prison population. Unless a patriotic guard decides to off him I think this guy will die of old age in prison.
Vigilantism gets a bad rap.
Though I would feel better with his extermination. I think perhaps a daily bath in Pig blood would do him justice.
The next time Al-Qaeda pulls some nonsense on American soil, millions of Americans should send them thank you cards with photographs of 9/11 enclosed.
I'll give 2 to 1 odds...he get's out in my lifetime.
Kill Da Wahabbi! Kill Da Wahabbi!
Listening to the how many jurors were for this or opposed to this I suppose we should be greatful they are not ushering this bozo out of jail for free ice cream at Ben and Jerry's. If my recollection is correct no Federal Jury has ever sentenced a person to death who has not directly participated in an event causing life, and since Moussaoui was already in the slammer he was not.
Northern Viginia is very liberal so I guess this is the best we could expect.It also indicates to me that many people do not understand the jihadists mentality and the fact this 911 attack was not isolated. As soon as they are able they will launch attacks again and again until they bring us to our knees or we stop them.
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