Arlington Virginia, Zacarias Moussaoui claimed yesterday during his sentencing trial that he was supposed to have been part of the Sept. 11, 2001 plot and that he was training to fly a fifth hijacked plane into the White House on that day. Moussaoui’s testimony came before a jury which will decide whether to give him a death sentence. Moussaoui said Osama Bin Laden had ordered him to head a five-man crew that included Richard Reid — the British man who was later arrested for trying to set off a shoe bomb aboard a flight. Moussaoui was arrested weeks before the 9/11 attacks. On Monday he admitted that he said he lied to the FBI after his arrest to allow the Sept. 11 attacks to go forward. However major questions remain over the accuracy of Moussaoui’s statements. Until now neither U.S. intelligence officers nor the alleged 9/11 mastermind Khald Sheik Mohammed directly linked Moussaoui or Reid to be the 9/11 plot.
Moussaoui Claims He Was Meant to Fly Fifth Plane on 9/11
HeadlineMar 28, 2006