Moussaoui Gets Life in Prison (No Death Penalty for the Ranting Jihadist Looney Tune)

Breitbart.com ^ | 05/03/06 | Michael J. Sniffer

[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.

[Carl LaFong]

Dude will be out in 6 months and having circle jerks on TV with Oprah and Bill Maher (aka 'Tomato Nose')

[BnBlFlag]

All this sentence does is tell the enemy that we're not serious about confronting them and then destroying them. I'm sure they see this as a joke.

[BnBlFlag]

"How long will he live in jail.....?"
Don't worry about him because the Black Muslims will take him under their protection. I doubt anything will happen to him unless they put him in a wing with the Aryan Brotherhood or the Mexican Mafia.

[BnBlFlag]

Your #46. BINGO!

[brazzaville]

Good afternoon.

The upside is that he is likely to have plenty of time to rot before he dies.

Too bad we have to pay so much for it, though. A rope would have been cheaper and it would have been reusable.

Michael Frazier

[NoJoke]

It makes me sick.

I hope someone will post information on every member of that jury for the public to show their derison.

[Wiseghy]

Anyone asking for death for this scum should take another look at that super-max link. It seems to me to be an environment that would force depression and neural decay on nearly any human being forced to live in it. I have no doubt that he would have greatly preferred death to the decades long near death hell of that kind of isolation.

BTW, I have no doubt that any sensible warden will refuse press interviews or any other contact with him indefinitely.

[sinkspur]

Yes. These Supermax prisons enforce isolation, as much as possible. That means the prisoner is often disoriented, not even knowing where the sky is, what day it is, or what time it is.

No doubt many prisoners do go stark-raving mad.

[Roccus]

Again, America shows herself to be, oh so compassionate....and islam sneers.

[roverman2K6]

Nope, we will spend a million a year to keep him safe, not too mention his "muslim brothers" there already

[Gotterdammerung]

If he lasts a week in federal prison, that will be lucky for him. Maybe that is what the jury is thinking???? Or maybe I'm giving them too much credit. Depends on where he goes. Some prisons have large Mooslim populations.

[CyberAnt]

Okay everybody .. I know I'm late to this discussion, but hear me out.

No .. I don't think they did and I'll tell you why:

What's the one thing Moussaoui wanted ..?? DEATH! MARTYRDOM! That's why I'm glad they didn't give him death. Now the muslims cannot use him as a martyr. Remember what Osama said, "we love death but America loves life - that is the basic difference between us." If you love a culture of death, then the worst possible punishment is to be forced to remain alive.

Let him live in a rotten stinking hole the rest of his life and watch his terrorist friends be killed one by one, and he has to remain alive.

[sheik yerbouty]

I have a feeling the penaly phase went all OJ..

[Perdogg]

If he goes into GP, he will get cornholed and shanked. Are they going to send him to ADX Florence?

[I Drive Too Fast]

On the radio, the reporter said that the jury did not hear his rantings, except when he took the stand. He faced being removed from the court if he did.

I saw a program about that prison in Colorado that he is going to. You think he is loony tunes now, check back in a few years. Every prisoner there is in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day.

[El Gato]

Did they miss this creep's deranged rantings and desires for more 9-11s? Granted that's not a basis for death,

On the contrary, I'd say it is. It's called a preemptive strike in other contexts. The man should have been in Gitmo and put before a military tribunal, not in some civilian court with the typical mind numbed jury to be found in the DC area.

[El Gato]

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'm sure the courts, including the Supreme Court, would find that, particular the pork diet, to be "cruel and unusual punishment". Heck, they'd find not providing the SOB a prayer mat to be such.

[El Gato]

The worse possible punishment for him is to be forgotten.

I can guarantee that plenty of Imams, Mullahs and maybe an Ayatollah or three, will see to it that he'd not forgotten.

OTOH, he might make great "bait".

[El Gato]

May he enjoy a lifetime of anal rape.

Ramsey Clark, and his ilk, will be there to ensure he's never put into general population. Not even in a Club Fed, sort of place.

[El Gato]

Give him a pig for a roomie...

Better yet, put him to work in the hog raising branch of a prison farm. Except these days prisoners are more likely to be working on HUMVEEs for the military, for pay no less.