Following are photos of typical cells in the prison where Moussaoui will be incarcerated. Some "rat hole."
Posted on 05/04/2006 10:52:03 AM PDT by LouAvul
PARIS - Zacarias Moussaoui's mother said Thursday a life sentence for her son was more cruel than putting him to death because now he will "live like a rat in a hole."
Aicha El Wafi, who returned to France earlier this week, said the trial was a masquerade that did not prove her son's guilt, and she accused the French government of not fighting hard enough for him, saying it did not want to oppose the United States.
El Wafi, dressed in black, was emotional and nervous as she spoke with reporters a day after the jury in Alexandria, Va., decided to send him to prison for life without a chance of parole, and she repeated over and over, "This is terrible."
"I share the suffering and the pain of the parents of the victims. I'm with them," she said.
"I feel like a part of myself is dead, buried with my son, who is going to be buried all of his life at 37 years old for things that he didn't do. Because he spoke too much," El Wafi said.
She called her son a scapegoat, adding that the life sentence imposed for his role in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks was worse than the death penalty.
"Now he is going to die in little doses," she said. "He is going to live like a rat in a hole. What for? They are so cruel, they were wrong to want his head. They should have gone all the way to the end if they were capable."
"My son will be buried alive because France didn't dare contradict the Americans," El Wafi said.
"I don't share the ideas and the words of my son in the court," she said, but added that it was "because of his words, his color, his race, that he was sentenced to life."
El Wafi's lawyer, Patrick Baudouin, expressed relief that the jury did not decide on the death penalty, and vowed a legal battle to bring Moussaoui home.
"They wanted to make the little soldier Moussaoui into a perpetrator of the Sept. 11 attacks," Baudouin said. "He had no blood on his hands."
French authorities said they may ask the United States to let Moussaoui serve his life sentence in a France prison.
France and the United States are linked by two conventions on transferring convicts, and "an eventual request for transferring Mr. Zacarias Moussaoui would be studied in this framework," Foreign Ministry spokesman Jean-Baptiste Mattei said.
Moussaoui, a Frenchman of Moroccan descent, was the only person charged in the United States in those attacks. A jury decided not to impose the death penalty.
After the sentencing, Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy said: "I asked my services and our embassy in Washington, who offered their consular protection and who followed day to day the unfolding of the process, to continue to remain very attentive to the situation of Zacarias Moussaoui."
He did not comment on the verdict itself, but said: "The French authorities have had the occasion, several times, to restate their constant opposition to capital punishment."
A ministry spokesman said no decision on transferring Moussaoui would be made until U.S. authorities "define the conditions of his sentence."
France, which abolished capital punishment in 1981, had demanded that none of the information it provided for the U.S. case against Moussaoui be used to seek execution.
Nah, he's got a black and white TV, with access to religious programing and anger managment programs only...
I hardly think so.
Because I am an Islamic Scholar, I will explain the rules of life as they pertain to Muslims.
Moussaoui will not be dying courtesy of lethal injection, so this disqualifies him from receiving his 72 virgins in the afterlife.
The 72 virgins were then reserved for Moussaoui's mother, but because she did not make her plea from Mecca, she is also disqualified from Allah's virgin deal.
NOW, if she flies to Mecca TONIGHT and says "Taraq, taraq, taraq" in her sleep, then she may be entitled to 36 virgins (pending Allah's forgiveness for her original claim in Paris).
As long as Moussaoui still spits water at people and maintains his ratty beard, Allah may give the virgins to his mother. However, he also has to say "Taraq, Taraq, Taraq" in his sleep tonight if he expects her to share the virgins with him.
Follow me?
he will live an austere, but comfortable life in prison. he will get meals, access to religious services, 1 hour a day exercising overlooking the Rockies. endless prison lawsuits will be filed on his behalf by the ACLU.
a better punishment might actually have been to release him - drop him into the tribal region of pakistan with a canteen and a transponder embedded into his ass, and let US forces hunt him down like an animal.
"All Jhidast moms want to see their children dead."
Jihadi children just blow up so early these days!
My question is whether this mother taught her son intollerance and to hate America? If so, she sentenced her own son to his fate and has no voice now.
He will have a tv, prayer rug, Koran, hallal food, prayer 5 times a day, jihadi groupies who will relegate him to status of hero, be able to get a college education, free weights for working out, and other things I can't think of at the moment.
Any one know what other bennies he will have while he sits in his rat hole praying to Allah five times a day and eating three hallal squares a day?
Allah Hu Snackbar!!!!!!
I think you're probably right. Supermax is supposed to be really awful.
Are you a self-proclaimed Islamic Scholar?
Where's your Umma?
Allah Hu Snackbar!!!!!
Works for me!
The brilliant insight that helped raise a terrorist.
Affect meet Cause.
Yawn!
He'll be in solitary. That will rather limit the number of "groupies" he ever meets or even hears about.
Ultimately it was a question of whether he would fry then rot, or rot then fry. Either way, he's going to Hell.
I can live with that.
I think with good behaviour he will get moved out of solitary and into a cell block with a bunk mate.
If he continues to be a good boy he might even qualify for parole in 15 or 20 years after everyone has forgotten about him.
He doesn't think he will go to Hell as long as he has his Koran, prayer mat, prays the five, and eats hallal.
For living under the chains of the infidel he might even get a special commendation by Allah herself for staying faithful even in solitary.
I have read somewhere in the past 10 years that a "martyr" can choose 70 (I could be wrong on this number but it sticks in my mind.) of his closest relatives for a sure ticket to paradise. It's another motivational technique.
Following are photos of typical cells in the prison where Moussaoui will be incarcerated. Some "rat hole."
How embarrassing.
You're a member of Al Queda and your MOM has to stick up for you.
"They are so cruel...'
This will feel very cruel to her as a mother knowing for the rest of her life that this is her son's life. It will be unending grief that she will have to deal with every minute remaining in her life. That will be terrible for her.
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