Advance: Moussaoui set to plead guilty in 9/11 role...

[rawstory]

http://rawstory.com/aexternal/moussaoui_pleads_guilty_418.htm

ADVANCE EXCERPTS

Washington Post Tuesday: Moussaoui ready to plead guilty in connection with 9/11

RAW STORY

Zacarias Moussaoui has notified the government that he intends to plead guilty to his alleged role in the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks and could enter the plea as early as this week if a judge finds him mentally competent, sources familiar with the case told the Washington Post Monday for Tuesday's editions, RAW STORY has learned.

"Moussaoui's plan to plead guilty comes over his attorneys' objections and still has several obstacles — including Moussaoui's own whim," writes Post reporter Jerry Markon. "The French citizen, the only person charged in the United States in the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, tried to plead guilty in 2002, claiming an intimate knowledge of the plane hijackings. But he rescinded his plea a week later. His mental state has been an issue in the case ever since, and U.S. District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema in Alexandria, Va., is scheduled to meet with Moussaoui this week to determine if he has the mental capacity to enter a plea now, the sources said."

The Post's Markon will add:

In recent letters to the government and to Brinkema, Moussaoui said he is willing to accept the possibility of a death sentence, which sources said could resolve a key point of contention: Prosecutors are unlikely to drop their insistence on capital punishment. If Brinkema accepts a plea, she would then probably set a death penalty trial, at which jurors would decide if Moussaoui should be executed.

http://rawstory.com/aexternal/moussaoui_pleads_guilty_418.htm

[bpilgrim]

1. "If Brinkema accepts a plea..." - what kinda plea to they have in mind?

kill'm later, rather than sooner :shrug:

peace

[tuvor]

2. Source: Moussaoui Plans to Plead Guilty

WASHINGTON - Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person in the United States charged in connection with the Sept. 11 attacks, is offering for a second time to plead guilty and a federal judge is evaluating whether to accept the plea, a legal source said Tuesday.

The source, who spoke only on condition of anonymity because the matter remains sealed, said if U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema finds Moussaoui mentally competent to make the decision, he could enter the plea before the end of the month.

The government accused Moussaoui of participating in an al-Qaida conspiracy to commit terrorism that included the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington.

Moussaoui, a French citizen, tried to plead guilty in 2002 but took back the plea a week later.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=542&e=12&u=/ap/moussaoui

[ck4829]

3. Bush is praying that he pleads guilty

They won't have to hear very much evidence, they could just throw him back in jail for the rest of eternity.