Accused September 11 plotter Zacarias Moussaoui withdraws guilty pleas.

CNN ^ | July 25, 2002

[jern]

Accused September 11 plotter Zacarias Moussaoui withdraws guilty pleas.

[Catspaw]

Unfortunately, the judge had to reject all of his guilty pleas because Moussaoui would not admit to the facts of the case. Because he refused to do that, she could not accept his guilty plea.

If you remember Kathleen Soliah (or Sara Jane Olson) from the Symbionese Liberation Army, she plead guilty in court, even admitted to the facts of the case, then walked out of the courthouse & told the media she wasn't guilty. The judge hauled her back into court and refused to accept her guilty pleas & re-entered not guilty pleas. Then her lawyers & the prosecutors worked out another guilty plea and the judge accepted that plea. She then tried to withdraw her guilty plea again & I thought the judge's head would explode. He would not let her withdraw her second guilty plea.

But because the judge would not accept the guilty pleas from Moussaoui, he's going to trial.

You can read a transcript of today's hearing.  It's posted on washingtonpost.com.

[GretchenEE]

Reading the news write-up you posted, I must pause to ask God's help here.

Dear Lord, in Your Name I bind up all the confusion and strangleholds that are being tossed into the legal process in this case. I loose the power of the truth to enfold, grip, possess, and lead each person, in Your Name. I ask that You send Your Spirit to aid each person and that You prevent deception and lies from taking hold anywhere in this process. Bless and give the judge wisdom beyond human ability to determine the facts faultlessly, in Jesus' Name. Let this come to a speedy, righteous conclusion despite all the efforts of darkness to keep that from happening. Bare Your holy arm on behalf of justice for us, Lord God. Let not our enemies triumph over us in the courtroom or in the streets.

[Phantom Lord]

Now that I have thought about my previous post, the charge that was thrown out was actually against shoe bomber Richard Reid. The charge related to attempting to destroy a vehicle of mass transit or how ever they worded it. The charge was thrown out because as congress wrote the law, airplanes didnt fall under the definition of a vehicle of mass transit.

[Chi-townChief]

"Moussaoui, a Frenchman"

I guess this proves my grandmother's old saying - If she caught you in a lie, she would say that you were "False as a Frenchman."

[EricT.]

Hmmm... French and Arabic... what a wonderful combination. Makes it so easy to hate 'em. :)

[Minutemen]

You got that right! Why didn't didn't this judge(A Clinton apointee) accept Moussaoui's guilty plea at face value? Now we are gonna see this bast**d walk I'll bet ya. I say full speed ahead with military tribunals. You could just smell this rat coming.

[Minutemen]

You might consider a Boeing 757 a weapon of mass destruction if it was the top of your head it was coming down upon.

[Mitchell]

I have yet to see any journalist ask why the cropduster allegations were dropped from the complaint against him...too troubling to reveal to the people their use as chemical weapons - he did have wind pattern maps.?

Possibly those charges were dropped simply because there was no evidence of a connection to criminal activity. The U.S. government is treating the Moussaoui case as a criminal case, not as a military incident. After all, owning wind pattern maps isn't illegal per se.

[Mitchell]

I don't think it's so much protecting the profits of some particular company in a nefarious way. But a warning of impending biological attack could cause further stock market declines and a general recession or depression in the economy. This wouldn't do us any good, and would, in fact, impede the war effort.

With that said, I also agree that not saying anything until we're ready to strike with one debilitating blow makes good tactical sense.

[Mitchell]

The use of chemical agents is consistent with the Palestinian homicide bombers, who are said to add rat poison to their nail bombs to make them even deadlier. And the first WTC bomb contained cyanide (which was apparently destroyed or dissipated to no effect by the explosion).

[Betty Jo]

Get thee to a bunker!

[aristeides]

I suspect the chief reason the Islamofascists use rat poison and cyanide is the same as why the Nazis used the insecticide Zyklon B to kill Jews. Both view themselves as exterminating vermin.

[Mitchell]

Yes, that is their mindset.