Given the fact that the jury had already put the death penalty on the table and the relentless prosecution assault with the horrors of 9/11 I thought for sure they were going to fry him.

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Originally posted by Nanuq:
Why make a new martyr? Better that he rots in jail.

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Originally posted by Sven:
I was pleasantly surprised to see that Moussaoui will not be executed. Instead, he will slowly rot in prison for the next several decades.

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Interesting...on progressive boards in the States, most people figure he's innocent and shouldn't even be in jail in the first place...virtually no credible evidence was introduced on any of the charges...it was essentially a show trial.

But here--the Homeland Security enthusiasts are in full throat cheerleading?

None of the senior al Qaeda captured have or will be tried. If he'd had any useful information to offer, he'd either have been tortured in a secret camp somewhere, or he'd have been offered a deal, like Ressam.

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Originally posted by Fear-ah:
No need to reply because I am not going to go over the trail with anyone here...

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Originally posted by paxamillion:
I understand and support this stance completely. There is simply no way we'd understand. Simply tossing in your point of view is, at best, all we're worth here. We're clearly neither as progressive nor enlightened as you.

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Originally posted by Bobolink:
It is obvious that he was a bit player who never really knew what was going on.

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The mother of Zacarias Moussaoui, who was sentenced Thursday to life in prison for his role in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist plot, said her son had nothing to do with the attacks that day and did not deserve to spend his life behind bars. She accused the French government of aiding in his conviction to appease the United States.
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"I wish France had said that this French citizen should have been judged on what he did and not on what he said, not because he is Arabic," she said. Instead, France "preferred to give an Arab to please them, for them to have a trial for 9/11, even though my son doesn't have anything to do with 9/11." Moussaoui, 37, was born in France to parents who emigrated from Morocco.

Alternately morose and composed, angry and combative, Wafi claimed that some of the victims' families have been in contact with her and are helping fight her son's conviction "because they think he is a fake culprit, in a fake trial, and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed should be there, not Zacarias."

Mohammed, widely viewed as the prime organizer of the Sept. 11 attacks, is being held by the United States at an undisclosed location.
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"The trial showed that FBI agents had much more information on the preparation of the 9/11 attacks than Moussaoui himself," [her lawyer Patrick] Baudoin said. "Therefore, shall we sue these FBI agents for being accomplices to the 9/11 attacks?"

Baudoin said French authorities had shown "only passivity and a lack of interest" in the case, but he will push to have France seek the return of Moussaoui so that he could serve out his sentence in French prison. However, he conceded, "I cannot picture the Bush administration, which wanted Zacarias Moussaoui dead, giving him back to France." Washington Post

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Originally posted by S1m0n:
If he'd been anything but a know-nothing foot soldier, he'd never have been put on trial in the first place.

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