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.
We are weak
This is why John Kerry,these things are not for the courts to decide. It takes too long for justice (or not) to be served and it can get botched.
"Do we have nothing but NUTZOIDS that sit in on trials?"
Trial by those who select the jury, rather then trial by jury. An earlier post mentions this also.
I wonder what all the "I gald he got life" ,"Deneiged him Martyrship" crowd will say when
30-40 American Hostiges are displayed on the tube with black clad knif weilding terrorest
demanding his release.
What will they say when the first one is beheaded?
That was hilarious!
Only the best for our beloved Shaheed!
They just executed a guy here in VA, and we have a gov, that is against the death penalty!!!
Personally, I don't really care what he thinks would be good or bad...he should just be exterminated, with no big deal made of it. Execute and forget.
It beats me why this ---- was tried by jury rather than where he should have been tried, by Armed Service tribunal! This ---- didn't have civil rights in this country. We have, indeed, lost.
What will they say when the first one is beheaded?
It's Bush's fault.
Just unbelievable......
He's been in jail for how many years now? They'll continue to give him VIP status and protect him from fear of 'upsetting' the terrorists if he's murdered in prison.
We have become a weak nation from all the years of liberalism and anti-religion in our government, and that's the type of weakness that technology and military might alone can't overcome. We need to change from within, get back to basics again; back to conservative/traditional ideals, back to family and faith, back to courage and toughness against our enemies, and back to sound, LOGICAL thinking and acting.
A good start would be to send the 15 million counterfiet "immigrants" back from whence they came; then follow that up by telling the 6 million Muslims in our midst that they are not trusted, and that we do NOT believe their religion is peaceful, and that they are being watched. When any of them causes trouble they get deported. If we fail to do these things then America ceases to exist as we become like the drop of water that's placed in the ocean. It gets swallowed up by the greater body of water and no longer exists as it once was. Right now, the world is swallowing us up through unchecked, insanely suicidal immigration policies.
Hopefully Moussoui will meet a nasty fate in prison. Either way, he should have his beard shaved and be told every day for the rest of his life that upon his death he will be buried upside down and facing the wrong direction.
The enemy within wins again. Terrible decision, and sends all the wrong messages to the enemy.
We've spent millions making sure this guy gets his Consitutional rights, and we will now spend millions more of taxpayers dollars to house and feed him for life. He was very clever to act insane and save his skin. My guess is that al qaieda will kidnap an important American citizen and demand a 'hostage' exchange.... and they'll probably get it.
You raise a very interesting point about the venue in Northern Virginia. The Eastern District of Virginia, which is the actual name for the District Court in Alexandria, has long been the Government's venue of choice for national security cases. It is convenient, the court moves its docket along very quickly (not quite the "rocket docket" of years past, but still quicker than most federal districts), and it used to be thought of as a court with fairly conservative judges and jurors. On this last point, recognize that a federal district court draws its jurors from the entire federal district, so the jury would not have been all from Alexandria and vicinity. Northern Virginia is undoubtedly more liberal than it used to be, and I wonder if that has now reached the point where the Eastern District is no longer a good place to try national security cases.
His prayer rug should be bear skin, LIVE bear skin.
Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind behind the first WTC bombing in 1993, is in Colorado, which is where Moussaoui will go.
Yousef has continued to correspond with jihadists since his incarceration.
Ramzi Yousef and Khalid Shaikh Mohammed of the 1993 WTC bombing and the Operation Bojinka plots, is in a maximum-security prison, sentenced to hundreds of years of prison time for his plots. However, he can communicate with Gregory Scarpa Jr., a mob figure in the cell next to him. The FBI sets up a sting operation with Scarpa’s cooperation to learn more of what and whom Yousef knows. Scarpa is given a telephone, and he allows Yousef to use it.
However, Yousef uses the sting operation for his own ends, communicating with operatives on the outside in code language without giving away their identities. He attempts to find passports to get co-conspirators into the US, and there is some discussion about imminent attacks on US passenger jets. Realizing the scheme has backfired, the FBI terminates the telephone sting in late 1996, but Yousef manages to keep communicating with the outside world for several more months. [Lance, 2003; New York Daily News, 10/24/2000; New York Daily News, 2/21/2002]
Still think it's a good idea that Moussaoui got life?
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