Report: Moussaoui to plead guilty

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Report: Moussaoui to plead guilty
Tuesday, April 19, 2005 Posted: 5:53 AM EDT (0953 GMT)

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person in the United States charged in connection with the September 11 terrorist attacks, says he plans to plead guilty, The Washington Post reported.

If a judge finds Moussaoui mentally competent, he could enter the plea as early as this week, the Post reported in Tuesday's editions, citing sources familiar with the case.

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

Prosecutors and defense attorneys in the case declined to comment on the Post report when contacted Monday night by The Associated Press.

Moussaoui, a French citizen, tried to plead guilty in 2002 but took back the plea a week later. The Post sources said U.S. District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema in Alexandria, Virginia, is scheduled to meet with Moussaoui this week to determine whether he has the mental capacity to enter a plea

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