[Phantom Lord]

Isn't conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction one of the counts that carries the death penalty?

What weapon of mass destruction did he conspire to use?

Are you sure you not meaning to say "use a vehicle of mass transportation as a weapon" or how ever it was worded?

Oh, and including airplanes in the definition of a means of mass transit was thrown out by a court. Seems congress has a dictionary all its own to define words, and an airplane doesnt count as a method of transportation as the definition in congresses dictionary for the purpose of writting and iterrupting laws limits methods of transportation to things that operate on THE GROUND!

They did a poor job of writing the law, which is always the case when they rush.

[Shermy]

"What weapon of mass destruction did he conspire to use?"

He may have had different roles and history besides the Minnesota incident. He may have not been planned to go on the 9/11 planes - or something else that day.

I have yet to see any journalist ask why the cropduster allegations were dropped from the complaint against him...too troubling to reveal to the people their use as chemical weapons - he did have wind pattern maps.? Might warnings to the American people, which we deserve, impinge on the profits of some industry?

[weegee]

I don't know how the charge was worded or what definitions the government uses, but it is clearly more than just "malicious vehicular assault" (e.g. deliberately using a car as a weapon to hit someone).

The plan was to hit buildings and cause a fuel explosion. The plane was a bomb. Dead is dead.

Does the definition of "weapons of mass distruction" carry with it an intended body count range, a potential explosive damage yield, or a financial damage value?

[Minutemen]

You might consider a Boeing 757 a weapon of mass destruction if it was the top of your head it was coming down upon.