| Author | Message | | Cowboy | | Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 3:03 am Post subject: Moussaoui: Islam requires Muslims to be world's superpower |
| Moussaoui: 'No Regret, No Remorse'
By MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN (Associated Press Writer)
From Associated Press
April 13, 2006 9:18 PM EDT
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Reasserting his role in Sept. 11, al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui told jurors Thursday he has "no regret, no remorse," was disgusted by the heart-rending testimony of victims and relatives and only wished they had suffered more.
He said hearing a Navy officer sobbing in court made his day.
"So you would be happy to see 9/11 again?" Prosecutor Rob Spencer asked.
"Every day until we get you," the bearded 37-year-old Frenchman shot back.
As court-appointed defense lawyers began the last phase of their effort to save him from execution, Moussaoui put in a second unsettling appearance on the witness stand.
For 2 1/2 hours, Moussaoui argued with defense lawyer Gerald Zerkin and Spencer about when he had been telling the truth over the last four years and whether he was sane.
In the process, he revealed why he implicated himself in 9/11 after four years of denials, how he would have defended himself, his reasons for hating America and his dream of being freed by President Bush in a prisoner exchange for captured American troops.
Among his most startling statements, Moussaoui said Army Lt. Col. John Thurman's harrowing account of escaping the burning Pentagon left him with "regret that he didn't die."
He mocked a Navy officer who wept as she described the death of two subordinates in the attack on the Pentagon.
"I think it was disgusting for a military person" to cry, Moussaoui said of Lt. Nancy McKeown. "She is military. She should expect people at war with her to want to kill her."
Asked if he was happy to hear her sobbing, he said, "Make my day."
He noted many relatives of victims wept on the witness stand, then walked past him in the courtroom and looked his way without crying. "I find it disgusting that people come here to share their grief over the death of some other person," he said.
"I'm glad there was pain, and I wish there will be more pain," Moussaoui said. "The children in Palestine and in Chechnya will have pain. I want you to share their pain."
So, Spencer asked: "You have no regret, no remorse?"
"No regret, no remorse," Moussaoui responded.
When he left court after the judge and jury, he yelled: "God curse America. We will win. It's just a question of time."
Moussaoui didn't captivate the jury as he had March 27 when he first admitted a role in 9/11. This time jurors did not keep their eyes on him throughout; some even chuckled when he momentarily forgot to use his standard hardline al-Qaida rhetoric and quickly corrected himself.
In a lengthy explanation of why he hates Americans, Moussaoui said Islam requires Muslims to be the world's superpower as he flipped through a copy of the Quran searching for verses to support his assertion. He said one verse requires Muslims "to fight against all who believe not in Allah."
"We have an obligation to be the superpower. You have to be subdued," Moussaoui said. "America is a superpower and you want to eradicate Islam."
He criticized U.S. support for Israel. "Every child who has been killed in Palestine has been killed because of you," he said. Israel is "just a missing star in the American flag," he added.
In a particularly revealing response, Moussaoui explained to Spencer why he shocked the sentencing trial by testifying March 27 that he had been ordered to hijack a fifth plane on 9/11 and fly it into the White House - a plot he had long maintained was targeted for a later date.
"I thought it was useless to try to differentiate myself from 9/11," Moussaoui said. "I wanted to stand for 9/11 from the beginning. I thought I could do so and fight on against the death penalty. On purely rational grounds, it's a bit odd. ... By testifying truthfully, I will save my life. It's an act of religion."
Pressed by Zerkin on whether he thought he was helping his case, Moussaoui responded: "I was putting my trust in God, so from an Islamic point of view, yes," acknowledging that non-Muslims might view his testimony as harmful.
For the first time in four years of fighting to represent himself or get a Muslim lawyer, he finally explained the defense he wanted to put on. With U.S. troops engaged around the world, Moussaoui said, a life sentence would make him available "as a bargaining chip they could exchange for U.S. troops" held prisoner.
"This would work with even the most vengeful juror," Moussaoui said. "Put him in jail and one day he could save an American life."
He told Spencer he's dreamed that President Bush will do this before leaving office in 2009. Spencer asked if that wasn't just propaganda. Moussaoui replied: "No, I believe it."
Moussaoui said the vision came to him just like his dream of flying a plane into the White House.
Moussaoui also pointed out that an al-Qaida conspirator in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa avoided the death penalty when jurors decided life in prison would be worse than execution, which would reward him with martyrdom. As it happens, the court-appointed lawyers Moussaoui despises have adopted that argument.
Zerkin got Moussaoui to acknowledge lying in court documents he filed while acting for 18 months as his own attorney and that he told the court a year ago when he pleaded guilty that he had no role in 9/11. Moussaoui wrote those off as "psychological warfare and propaganda."
Defense lawyers have subpoenaed would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid from a federal prison to ask him whether he was to be second-in-command of Moussaoui's hijack crew on 9/11 as Moussaoui testified.
Perhaps anticipating that Reid might not confirm his account, Moussaoui testified that Reid "doesn't know anything. They told me not to say anything to him. When appropriate, they will tell him."
He also argued that he could not get a fair trial so close to the Pentagon and criticized his lawyers for not trying to move the case to Colorado as he tried to do when he represented himself. Moussaoui asserted they preferred the fame that comes from handling a high-profile trial.
The only person charged in this country in connection with the Sept. 11 attacks, Moussaoui already has been found eligible for execution by the jury. Even though he was in jail in Minnesota at the time of the attacks, the jury ruled that lies he told federal agents a month before the attacks kept them from identifying and stopping some of the hijackers.
The trial resumes Monday. | |  | | Alpha | | | | Dil_420 | | Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 2:17 pm Post subject: |
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u r son of bitch | | | | Alpha | | | | Alpha | | Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 6:05 pm Post subject: U.S. blocks UN draft pressing Israel to end attacks |
| Even more tragic terror being fueled by the US ZOG (Zionist Occupied Government) for its support of the rogue state of Israel:
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2006-04-13T234548Z_01_N13103_RTRUKOC_0_UK-MIDEAST-UN.xml&archived=False
U.S. blocks UN draft pressing Israel to end attacks
Fri Apr 14, 2006 12:46 AM BST
By Irwin Arieff
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States on Thursday blocked a U.N. Security Council statement drafted by Arab nations and aimed at putting pressure on Israel to stop military strikes on Palestinian targets.
U.S. Ambassador John Bolton said the draft, even after three days of intense negotiations, "was disproportionately critical of Israel, and unfairly so, and needlessly so."
But Palestinian U.N. Observer Riyad Mansour accused Washington of "shielding and protecting Israeli activities and aggression against the Palestinian people."
"It was obvious that many of their concerns were accommodated but yet they kept coming back and coming back for additional things. It was obvious they did not want the Security Council to have a position," Mansour said.
Washington does not have formal veto power when it comes to council statements. But it was nonetheless able to block the draft single-handedly because council rules require that statements be unanimous supported by all 15 of its members.
During Thursday's closed-door negotiations, the United States effectively killed the text by seeking amendment after amendment until Qatar, the council's sole Arab member, gave up the fight.
Asked by reporters to confirm that Washington alone had opposed issuing the statement, Bolton responded, "If I were the only holdout, I'd be proud of that fact."
Qatar, acting on behalf of the Arab group at the United Nations, the 57-nation Organisation of the Islamic Conference and the Non-Aligned Movement of 112 nations, immediately requested an open council debate on the Middle East, which was scheduled for Monday afternoon.
"I don't see that that meeting is going to be productive, because I don't think the Security Council is an exercise in group therapy," Bolton said.
But Mansour predicted more than 150 U.N., member-nations would address the meeting, to demonstrate that the overwhelming majority of U.N. members were "on the side of justice and international law."
The draft statement, after three days of revisions aimed at toning it down, expressed grave concern both about rocket attacks on Israel launched from Gaza and the escalation of Israeli shelling of Gaza, which Israeli says was meant to end those attacks.
It urged both sides to comply with international law and to refrain from any steps that could escalate the situation.
It called on the Palestinians "to take a clear public stance against violence and to take firm measures to halt rocket attacks and suicide bombings." And it urged renewed action towards creation of a viable Palestinian state living side by side with Israel in peace and security.
Israel has increased deadly airstrikes and shelling of Gaza in what it says is a response to militants firing rockets into Israel. The attacks have intensified since the militant group Hamas, which is sworn to destroy Israel, took over governing the Palestinian territories after winning a January election.
The Jewish state says it is not intentionally targeting civilians and has warned residents to leave parts of northern Gaza from where militants often launch makeshift rockets. | | | | Alpha | | Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 6:16 pm Post subject: |
| Moussaoui Details His Hatred of America
By MATTHEW BARAKAT, Associated Press Writer
Fri Apr 14, 7:32 AM ET
Sept. 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui insists he does not want to be executed, but for the second time he took the stand at his death-penalty trial and spouted off in a way that could eliminate any chance for mercy.
Moussaoui mocked the tearful testimony of 9/11 victims and their families and wished for similar attacks every day until America falls. He gave a detailed explanation of his hatred for America, flipping through a Quran on the witness stand trying to find justification for his views.
Moussaoui's testimony Thursday at his death-penalty trial came as defense lawyers sought to show Moussaoui was crazy and prosecutors sought to show he was simply evil.
Both sides made their point at various times, but the most visceral testimony came as Moussaoui again reveled in the aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001, just one day after the jury concluded a week of gut-wrenching testimony from 9/11 families and victims.
Moussaoui called an Army officer who crawled on his belly to safety beneath searing smoke "pathetic" and ridiculed a Navy officer who wept as she described the loss of two colleagues.
"I think it was disgusting for a military person" to cry, Moussaoui said of the testimony of Navy Lt. Nancy McKeown. "She is military, she should expect people at war with her to want to kill her."
Asked if he was happy to hear her sobbing, he said, "Make my day."
Prosecutor Rob Spencer asked Moussaoui: "So you would be happy to see 9/11 again?"
"Every day until we get you," the 37-year-old Frenchman responded with enthusiasm.
At other times, Moussaoui espoused beliefs that simply seemed bizarre. He insisted that President Bush would free him from prison some time before his term ends in 2009, perhaps as part of a prisoner exchange. He said it was revealed to him in a dream, just like his plan to fly a plane into the White House.
Spencer tried several times to get Moussaoui to say he didn't really think it would happen, but Moussaoui was resolute.
"I haven't doubted it for one single second," Moussaoui said.
Moussaoui said he didn't think his previous testimony on March 27, in which he said publicly for the first time that he was to have piloted a fifth plane on 9/11, would hurt him with the jury. That testimony put Moussaoui at the center of the 9/11 plot in a way that prosecutors hadn't even hoped to prove at the trial's outset.
Moussaoui said Allah will protect him as long as he tells the truth, no matter what the jury thinks of him.
Pressed by defense lawyer Gerald Zerkin if he thought he was helping his case, Moussaoui responded: "I was putting my trust in God, so from an Islamic point of view, yes," acknowledging that non-Muslims might view his testimony as harmful.
He denied that he is secretly sabotaging his case as a means to achieve martyrdom through execution. "I want to fight," he said.
He said that if he were in charge of his own defense he might have played up the notion that he could have been used as part of a prisoner exchange for captured American troops.
Moussaoui has taken the stand twice now in his own defense, both times against the advice of his court-appointed lawyers.
Defense lawyers say their client is lying about his role in Sept. 11. They point to four years of denials by Moussaoui of involvement in the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people, and a lack of supporting evidence for his new claim. They suggest he either seeks martyrdom or an inflated role in history.
During his 2 1/2 hours on the stand, Moussaoui offered a lengthy explanation of why he hates Americans. Islam requires Muslims to be the world's superpower, he said as he paged through the Quran.
"We have an obligation to be the superpower. You have to be subdued," Moussaoui said. "America is a superpower and you want to eradicate Islam."
He also criticized U.S. support for Israel, which he called "the Jewish state of Palestine." "Every child who has been killed in Palestine has been killed because of you," he said. Israel is "just a missing star in the American flag," he added.
Moussaoui's second act didn't quite captivate the jury in the same way as his first appearance. Jurors did not feel compelled to keep their eyes on him through the duration of his testimony, as they did last month.
The trial resumes Monday. U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema told jurors they will likely begin deliberations early next week.
Moussaoui has already pleaded guilty and a jury has already found him eligible for the death penalty. The jury must now decide whether he should be put to death or be sentenced to life in prison.
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Associated Press writer Michael J. Sniffen contributed to this report. | | | | Alpha | | | | Cowboy | | Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 7:30 am Post subject: |
| | Quote: | Notice how Rabbi Cowboywitz conveniently left the following out of the above:
He criticized U.S. support for Israel. "Every child who has been killed in Palestine has been killed because of you," he said. Israel is "just a missing star in the American flag," he added. |
You want more complete statements? Fine with me.
In his testimony, Moussaoui said Muslims have been at war with Christians and Jews for centuries. Israel, he said, is “just a missing star in the American flag.”
Israel hasn't been around for centuries. Just less than 60 years. Which means that it being all about Israel is pure crap.
Also demonstrated by the Islamist attacks all around the globe.
4,706 Islamist attacks around the globe since 9/11.
Iraq and India and the Sudan and Algeria and Afghanistan and New York and Pakistan and Israel and Russia and Chechnya and the Philippines and Indonesia and Nigeria and England and Thailand and Spain and Egypt and Bangladesh and Saudi Arabia and Ingushetia and Dagestan and Turkey and Kabardino-Balkaria and Morocco and Yemen and Lebanon and France and Uzbekistan and Gaza and Tunisia and Kosovo and Bosnia and Mauritania and Kenya and Eritrea and Syria and Somalia and California and Kuwait and Virginia and Ethiopia and Iran and Jordan and United Arab Emirates and Louisiana and Texas and Tanzania and Sri Lanka and Pennsylvania and Belgium and Denmark and East Timor and Qatar and Maryland and Tajikistan and the Netherlands and Scotland and...
...and pretty much wherever Muslims believe their religion tells them to:
"Fight and slay the Unbelievers wherever ye find them. Seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem of war."
Qur'an, Sura 9:5
You and Moussaoui are obviously full of shit with your claims about it being all about Israel.
" The List " of Islamic Terror Attacks For the Past 6 Months
http://thereligionofpeace.com/ | | | | foppe37 | | Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 7:32 am Post subject: |
| Why should he have regret ?
Do Bush and Blair have regrets ?
Does any zionist have regrets ? | | | | foppe37 | | Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 7:37 am Post subject: |
| " Israel hasn't been around for centuries. Just less than 60 years. Which means that it being all about Israel is pure crap. "
Zionist terror began around 1880.
The first armed conflict between zionists and Palestinian farmers was in 1882, Petah Tikvah.
Zionists at the time invaded Palestine under German protection.
In 1921 there was a full scale Palestinian rising, the British government nominated a new governor, a British jew, and zionist.
Many years later he wrote 'that is was a great pity that jews from their centuries of oppression had learned nothing but how to oppress others'.
From 1933 until 1936 there was a full scale guerilla war in Palestine, jews fought on the British side. | | | | | ©2002-2009 WarWithoutEnd.co.uk |
