Al-Qaeda member Moussaoui pleads guilty to 9/11 charges
Pakistan Times Monitoring Desk

ALEXANDRIA (US): French Al-Qaeda member Zacarias Moussaoui has pleaded guilty to six charges related to the September 11, 2001, attacks, bringing to an abrupt end the only US prosecution so far in the plot.

US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales later said prosecutors would seek the death penalty against the avowed Al-Qaeda member.

“The fact that Moussaoui participated in this terrorist conspiracy is no longer in doubt,” Gonzales said.

“Moussaoui and his co-conspirators were responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocents on September 11.”

Moussaoui, 36, told the court he was involved in a plot to destroy the White House but was not to be part of the September 11 attack.

”I came to the United States of America to be part of a to use an airplane as a weapon of mass destruction,” he said.”I was trained on a 747 (simulator) to strike the White House.

Recaps

This conspiracy was a different conspiracy from 9/11.”He admitted that Osama bin Laden told him “remember your dream” and fly an airplane into the White House.

Bin Laden’s order was described in a five-page “statement of facts” that Moussaoui signed at the hearing in which he pleaded guilty.

By signing the document, he agreed that if the case were to go on trial, the government would prove the facts “beyond a reasonable doubt.

”Moussaoui knew of al Qaeda’s plan to fly airplanes into prominent buildings in the United States and he agreed to travel to the United States to participate in the plan,” the document said.●