Moussaoui Will Plead Guilty
Charles Johnson
Wed Apr 20, 2005 at 8:38 pm PDT • Views: 164
In the conclusion to a farcical parody of a trial, Moussaoui Could Face the Death Penalty as he prepares to plead guilty to involvement in the 9/11 terror attacks. Let’s hope this Islamist fanatic has already given up whatever information he possessed.
WASHINGTON - Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person in the United States charged in connection with the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, plans to plead guilty to charges that could bring him the death penalty, officials said Wednesday.
U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema scheduled a hearing Friday in Alexandria, Va., at which Moussaoui is expected to plead guilty to all six counts of a federal indictment first filed against him in December 2001, the officials said. They spoke on condition of anonymity because the judge has ordered both sides not to discuss the case publicly.The government has charged Moussaoui with being part of an al-Qaida conspiracy to commit terrorism that included the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon that killed nearly 3,000 people.
Moussaoui, a French citizen, could face the death penalty, although his sentence would be determined in a separate legal proceeding that would follow any plea. Federal prosecutors plan to pursue the death penalty at that time, said one of the government officials.
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