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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.●
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