Wednesday, May 3, 2006
ALEXANDRIA, Virginia (CNN) -- Al Qaeda terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui should spend the rest of his life in prison for his role in the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, a federal jury decided Wednesday.
The nine men and three women returned their verdict on the seventh day of deliberations after reliving the September 11 attacks through weeks of harrowing testimony and evidence.
Jurors were stone-faced as the lengthy verdict form was read in court. Spectators, including some 9/11 family members, fell silent and Moussaoui showed no immediate reaction.
"America, you lost," Moussaoui stated, clapping his hands as he left the courtroom. "I won."...
And what, pray tell, are the prison wardens going to do to prevent this guy from converting people in prison? Will he get a slaughtered camel on religious days, like one of our Massachusetts prisoners demanded and won? I didn't want to see Moussaoui get the death penalty,but he should be put in solitary confinement. No question he's going to conducting his radical dawah in jail.
Now why would anybody take anything Moussaoui says seriously. He is clearly, in layman's terms, nuts. The prosecution could not produce any evidence, and they conceded as much, that he had anything to do with 9/11. It is America that won by actually correctly interpreting the law and putting this guy where he belongs. Execution would have caused international turmoil and would have made him a martyr. Not he's just another con.
Joe
I guess it depends upon what your definition of "won" is. RIP (Rot in Purgatory), Mr. M.
I hope he will soon wish to be dead...