The Moussaoui Trial: What Kind of Justice is This?

by Counterpunch (reposted)

Sun, Apr 9, 2006 8:29AM

On April 3, after four days of deliberation, an Alexandria, Virginia federal court jury found Zacarias Moussaoui eligible for the death penalty -- on the ground that he had conspired to use airplanes as weapons of mass destruction, resulting in the deaths of Americans on September 11. (The jury still must decide whether to impose the death penalty.)

Prior to its finding, the jury heard some surprising in-court testimony: Moussaoui claimed for the first time that he and "shoe bomber" Richard Reid had planned to fly a plane into the White House, as a part of a plan that culminated in the September 11 attacks. He also led the jury to believe that he knew more about the planned attacks than anyone had imagined.

Does that mean the case is now neatly tied up? Hardly. These "admissions" suffer from a dramatic lack of credibility, in the face of the rest of the evidence in the case (including doubts about Moussaoui's competence).

As a result, Moussaoui may be sentenced to death not for what he did or did not do, but for his lies about what he did or did not do or know.

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