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The government considers Zacarias Moussaoui a fitting candidate for execution. He is an admitted terrorist who pleaded guilty last year to being part of the Al Qaeda plot that led to the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackings. He was jailed on unrelated charges weeks before the attacks, but prosecutors contend he could have blown the whistle and prevented the carnage. A government attorney assisting the prosecution team has now done serious damage to the government's case at Moussaoui's ongoing death-penalty trial. Carla Martin, a lawyer for the Transportation Security Administration, allegedly violated a direct court order by coaching prospective prosecution witnesses...

by Mark Finkelstein March 15, 2006 I thought the MSM is ardently opposed to the death penalty? Aren't these the same folks who wrung their collective hands at the prospect of poor Tookie Williams getting the needle. Sure, he might have murdered four people in cold blood and joked about it, but hey! - he wrote a children's book. So you might have thought that the Today show would be celebrating the federal lawyer whose goof might very well lead to Zacarias Moussaoui dodging death and instead becoming a lifelong resident of a federal facility. But, no! The Today show...

New York - TIME has obtained the first documented look inside the highly classified realm of military interrogations since the Gitmo Camp at Guantanamo Bay opened. The document is a secret 84-page interrogation log that details the interrogation of 'Detainee 063' at Guantanamo Bay. It is a remarkable look into the range of techniques and methods used for the interrogation of Mohammed al Qahtani, who is widely believed to be the so-called 20th hijacker, a compatriof Osama bin Laden and a man who had tried to enter the U.S. in August 2001 to take part in the Sept. 11 attacks....

Moussaoui notifies government he intends to plead guilty to part in terror attacks, WASHINGTON POST planning to report in Tuesday Page Ones, newsroom sources tell DRUDGE...

(AP) - ALEXANDRIA, Va.-A federal judge said Monday she soon will set a trial date for Zacarias Moussaoui, the only defendant charged in the United States in the Sept. 11 terror attacks on the United States. U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema said the government and Moussaoui's lawyers have conferred privately and agreed on a trial schedule. Brinkema did not reveal the agreement but said she has misgivings about the proposal. She promised, in a two-page order, to set a date "in the near future."

Algerian radical spills beans on bin Laden "terror network" An Algerian Islamic radical arrested in France has proved a goldmine for investigators probing Osama bin Laden's militant network in Europe in the wake of the September 11 attacks, magistrates told AFP. French investigators now believe that after key testimonies from a handful of well placed members of bin Laden's al-Qaeda network the exiled Saudi extremist's secret organisation in Europe is unravelling fast. Since his arrest in Paris last Monday 27-year-old Yacine Aknouche has revealed his links with several al-Qaeda suspects including "shoe-bomber" Richard Reid and Zacarias Moussaoui, the alleged "20th...

WMAL-AM in Washington, D.C. reports that a possible security breach has happened regarding jailed Al-Qaeda suspect Zacarias Moussaoui. An investigation has been launched into reports that a jail guard repeatedly allowed Massaoui to use his cell phone. Moussaoui is being held in Alexandria, Virginia near the federal courthouse where his trial proceedings take place.

The links between Nick Berg and Zacarias Moussaoui, once described as the 20th hijacker of 9/11, opened now room for new speculations, if there are deeper ties between the OKC Bombing'95 and 9/11, than thought before. Apparently Berg knew also Moussaoui's roomates. One of them was Mujahid Menepta, who is connected to both 1993 World Trade Center bombing and the 1995 OKC bombing. But Menepta wasn't arrested in Summer 2001, when Moussaoui got caught. The FBI waited until after Sep11th.Why?Berg, Moussaoui and the OK bombing tieshttp://inn.globalfreepress.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=269 By Ewing20012004/5/24 On May 18th, 2004, according to Newsmax, Nick Berg's family insisted that...

<p>LONDON — Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, al Qaeda's purported operations chief, has told U.S. interrogators that the group had been planning attacks on the Library Tower in Los Angeles and the Sears Tower in Chicago on the heels of the September 11, 2001, terror strikes.</p>

<p>WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Saudi man who was prevented from entering the United States a few weeks before the Sept. 11 terror attacks may have been the plot's intended 20th hijacker, federal officials say.</p> <p>The man, identified only as al-Qahtani, was turned away by a U.S. immigration agent at Orlando International Airport in late August 2001, according to two senior law enforcement officials who spoke on condition of anonymity Tuesday.</p>

<p>December 1, 2003 -- WONDER why Muslim terrorists have targeted Muslim nations such as Turkey and Saudi Arabia? Try reading the rants of Zacarias Moussaoui, the bored al Qaeda jihadist sitting in a U.S. jail.</p> <p>Moussaoui, the Osama bin Laden loyalist charged as the "20th hijacker," has scrawled hundreds of motions from his Alexandria, Va., cell, offering a glimpse into the twisted mind of a terrorist.</p>

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Accused Sept. 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui said he wants to torture U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft, court documents showed on Wednesday. Moussaoui, who is not an attorney but is representing himself, made the comment in a filing to the court complaining about closed-door hearings that were held in relation to his case on Jan. 30. In the handwritten filing, Moussaoui accused Ashcroft of trying to "kill" him through the media since the trial proceedings began in 2001. "You make secret hearing so you can leak want (sic) you want and hide the parody of justice. The world...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) -- The Justice Department said it would be able to try accused Sept. 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui in a civilian court while protecting his rights and government secrets. The need to protect both Moussaoui's rights and sensitive national security information makes the case complex, but "should not breed skepticism about the propriety of prosecuting this case," the government told a federal judge Monday. The written pleading reaffirmed Attorney General John Ashcroft's objection to moving the case to a military tribunal, even though some Pentagon and intelligence officials reportedly would prefer that option. A tribunal could provide for...

<p>WASHINGTON - The "20th hijacker" Zacarias Moussaoui says in just-unsealed court papers that "I'll be delighted to come back one day to blow myself into your new WTC if ever you rebuild it." Moussaoui, who faces death for conspiracy to take part in the 9/11 attacks, made the statement in a handwritten motion demanding to talk to captured al Qaeda terror planner Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, whom Moussaoui calls "Brother Mohammed."</p>