Moussaoui takes stand, mocks families of 9-11 victims
Alexandria, Va. ? Zacarias Moussaoui scoffed Thursday at the Sept. 11 families who broke down as they told their tragic stories in court, mocking their grief as “disgusting.”
Taking the witness stand for the second time in his grueling trial, Moussaoui said he has “no remorse” for Sept. 11 and only regrets more Americans weren’t slaughtered in terror attacks.
“I just wish it had happened on (Sept.) 12th, the 13th, the 14th, the 15th, the 16th and the 17th,” he told the flabbergasted courtroom. “We have to destroy you.”
When asked by a prosecutor if he’ll try to kill Americans as long as he lives, Moussaoui replied, “Any time, anywhere.”
If Moussaoui put the noose around his own neck – as many believe – by claiming last month that he was to fly a fifth jet into the White House on Sept. 11, he threw the rope over the gallows and gave it a hard tug Thursday.
His comments left mouths agape in the packed courtroom.
“I find it disgusting that people come here to share their grief,” Moussaoui said of Sept. 11 relatives who testified.
“I’m glad their families suffer pain. I wish they’d suffer more pain,” he told the jury, which will likely begin deliberating his death sentence next week.
“He’s grandstanding. He’s inhuman. It’s atrocious,” said Barry Zelman, whose brother, Kenneth, was a WTC victim.
Moussaoui described an Army officer who testified about his guilt at surviving the Pentagon attack as “pathetic.” Moussaoui was “regretful he didn’t die.”
He belittled a naval officer who wept while describing the death of colleagues as weak.
“I would never cry because America bombed my camp,” Moussaoui said.
When asked if he was happy to hear her sobbing, he said, “Make my day.”
He gleefully ripped into the family members, accusing them of faking tears on the stand. He even called widow Shari Tolbert “the blond,” when he gloated over the death of her husband, Vince, in the Pentagon.
His legal team wasn’t spared abuse, either. He cursed his attorney, Gerald Zerkin, as a fame-seeking Jew for refusing to find him a Muslim lawyer or to try to move the trial farther from the site of the Pentagon attack.
Still, he insisted he does not wish to be executed.
But Moussaoui may have opened a door for his attorneys by appearing delusional. He claimed that President Bush will free him before leaving office in 2009, possibly in exchange for a captured U.S. serviceman.
“I believe it 100 percent,” he beamed.
Defense psychiatrists plan to say Moussaoui is a schizophrenic suffering from grand delusions and so paranoid he admitted he thought the FBI bugged him months before his arrest.





