ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Reasserting his role in Sept. 11, al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui told jurors Thursday he has "no regret, no remorse," was disgusted by the heart-rending testimony of victims and relatives and only wished they had suffered more. He said hearing a Navy officer sobbing in court made his day. "So you would be happy to see 9/11 again?" Prosecutor Rob Spencer asked. "Every day until we get you," the bearded 37-year-old Frenchman shot back. Among his most startling statements, Moussaoui said Army Lt. Col. John Thurman's harrowing account of escaping the burning Pentagon left him with "regret that he didn't die." He mocked a Navy officer who wept as she described the death of two subordinates in the attack on the Pentagon. "I think it was disgusting for a military person" to cry, Moussaoui said of Lt. Nancy McKeown. Asked if he was happy to hear her sobbing, he said, "Make my day." He noted many relatives of victims wept on the witness stand, then walked past him in the courtroom and looked his way without crying. "I find it disgusting that people come here to share their grief over the death of some other person," he said. "I'm glad there was pain, and I wish there will be more pain," Moussaoui said. So, Spencer asked: "You have no regret, no remorse?" "No regret, no remorse," Moussaoui responded. When he left court after the judge and jury, he yelled: "God curse America. We will win. It's just a question of time." In a lengthy explanation of why he hates Americans, Moussaoui said Islam requires Muslims to be the world's superpower as he flipped through a copy of the Quran searching for verses to support his assertion. He said one verse requires Muslims "to fight against all who believe not in Allah." "We have an obligation to be the superpower. You have to be subdued," Moussaoui said. "America is a superpower and you want to eradicate Islam." "I thought it was useless to try to differentiate myself from 9/11," Moussaoui said. "I wanted to stand for 9/11 from the beginning. I thought I could do so and fight on against the death penalty. On purely rational grounds, it's a bit odd. ... By testifying truthfully, I will save my life. It's an act of religion." Pressed by Zerkin on whether he thought he was helping his case, Moussaoui responded: "I was putting my trust in God, so from an Islamic point of view, yes," acknowledging that non-Muslims might view his testimony as harmful. Moussaoui also pointed out that an al-Qaida conspirator in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa avoided the death penalty when jurors decided life in prison would be worse than execution, which would reward him with martyrdom. As it happens, the court-appointed lawyers Moussaoui despises have adopted that argument. The only person charged in this country in connection with the Sept. 11 attacks, Moussaoui already has been found eligible for execution by the jury. Even though he was in jail in Minnesota at the time of the attacks, the jury ruled that lies he told federal agents a month before the attacks kept them from identifying and stopping some of the hijackers. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060414/ap_on_re_us/moussaoui why do people still not see that the game is using military force to get the world to worship allah , you have a man here who is being very honest why are people still not listening.
he's a sick man and those who feel the same way are sick. i hope they don't execute him so he won't become a martyr (though he didn't really do much, he just fucked up and got caught) and he'll be in prison for the rest of his life, being raped then passed to the next greasy inmate. or he could be executed, he's going to hell anyway. so he'll be teabagged by the devil for eternity. either way, it's a long time for sexual exploitation for him. he should start stretching now to get ready.
I hope he's executed. Not because I love capital punishment, but given his religion, and given the religion of gang leaders in US prisons, he'd have quite a good time in prison. Life in prison for him would probably be better than any life he could possibly have accomplished for himself in his homeland.
I hope he is not executed. He wants to be executed to fullfill his "martyrdom" mission. I would rather see his ass rot in the hole in a US prison. I wonder if he would be in physical risk in general population?
^^^ that's the problem, ain't it, how do you fight an enemy THAT WANTS TO DIE? Neways, i'm kindof worried about these show trials that we're broadcasting (Saddam and Zach are going to die, we know that already), it's just another indication of our eroding civil liberties and the fragile facade being hoisted in the name of 'freedom'....
How anyone can read this terrorist monster's words and STILL not back Bush and the War on Terror is sickening to me.
Because fighting an idea with a military force is an asinine proposition. Oh, and an indefinite war where our freedoms (you remember, the ones they hate us for) are stripped disrespects the thousands, if not millions of young men and women who gave their lives for our country. ass.
Did anyone else want to punch their computer screen reading that monster's words? Why Moussaoui thinks he'd get into paradise is beyond me. Last I checked, one had to have a soul in order to enter heaven. This man clearly has no soul.
How anyone can read this terrorist monster's words and STILL not back Bush and the War on Terror is sickening to me. Bush has killed (many times over) more people than that guy, even if you count only innocent bystanders and don't count conscripts. How someone could see that monster's acts and still not support his impeachment is sickening to me. Our freedoms are not being stripped. That's what the Bushmen say, so that makes it true, alright. It's Republican doctrine that if an assertion is made by the Bush Administration, the act of making that assertion, of itself, makes the assertion true. Because, after all, in the "post 911 world," everything learned in all of human history- logic, for instance- must be discarded. The acceptance of that sort of thinking will probably be more harmful to the future of mankind than the mere poison of Islamic fundamentalism. Myself, I think I'll continue to live in the "reality-based community." Bush has, to date, suspended at least 750 laws passed by the US Congress. Americans have lost democracy, thanks to Bush. Democracy that people in my own immediate family have KILLED PEOPLE to ensure. And guess what? They're kinda PISSSED at little shits who have never fought in a war but who are eager to send others, though they don't say it quite so politely.
Prosecutors agree that Mr. Moussaoui has claimed he committed anti-US acts that he never did. I think he's more mentally ill than he is a terrorist. But jr has gotten everybody so terrified that all you have to do is say your a terrorist to get tried and convicted as one. For almost every high-profile crime there are false confessors. Usually cops/prosecutors weed them out. this may not be the case in this instance. AND if a state of war exists between al-queda and the U.S., as jr claims (redefining the meaning of war), Mr. Moussaoui is no more guilty of a crime than the German U-boat captain that sank the Lusitania. Whatever crimes Mr. Moussaoui may have committed (he cetrainly didn't fly a plane into a building) it pales in comparison to the atrocities bushco has committed.
Name 2 amendments that have not been infringed upon (2nd doesn't count, unless you factor in the fact that people being held indefinitely in torture camps don't have access to a firearm.)
See, that's the interesting thing, the case against him is that if he came forward early on then the plot would have been diffused. How is that any different than being compelled to testify against yourself?