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Moussaoui : Believes Bush Will Free Him

By Jeralyn, Section Terror Trials
Posted on Thu Apr 13, 2006 at 03:37:01 PM EST
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Bump and Update: More Moussaoui testimony today:

Confessed al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui said Thursday it made his day to hear accounts of Americans' suffering from the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and he would like to see similar attacks "every day."

He mocked the military witnesses at his trial for crying.

"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."

He said he hopes the attacks on America continue.

Moussaoui said he had "no regret, no remorse" about the 9/11 attacks. Asked by prosecutor Rob Spencer if he would like to see it happen again, Moussaoui responded: "Every day until we get you."

And he expects Bush will release him before the end of Bush's term and he'll return to London.

Spencer tried several times to get Moussaoui to say he didn't really believe that, but Moussaoui was insistent. "I haven't doubted it for one single second," said Moussaoui, adding that the vision came to him in a dream just like his dream of flying a plane into the White House.

My view: He's crazy like a fox and intent on getting the death penalty to avoid life in prison. He would love to go down in history as being the person responsible for the 9/11 attacks. He'd be a martyr. With life in prison, he'll fade into obscurity at Supermax in Florence, Colorado, known as Alcatraz of the Rockies.

Also see Blake Fleetwood at HuffPo, Suicide by Cop.

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We're back on the Moussaoui death penalty trial, now that the prosecution has rested and the milking of the tragedy of the 9/11 victims is over.

Moussaoui testified today, and ripped his lawyers.

He said defense attorneys are motivated by the desire for fame. He also criticized his lawyers for not seeking a change of venue from the Alexandria, Virginia, courthouse -- about 10 miles from the Pentagon, which was attacked on September 11, 2001.

"You have put your vested interest in keeping this case in your hands, above my interest to save my life," Moussaoui said in response to questions from defense lawyer Gerald Zerkin, according to th