WASHINGTON, D.C. ? Convicted Sept. 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui appealed the life sentence he received this month and the denial of his request for a new trial.

In a one-paragraph notice of appeal, his court-appointed attorneys said Friday that he wanted the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to review the final judgment and sentence he received May 4 and Judge Leonie Brinkema’s May 8 denial of his request to withdraw his guilty plea and go to trial on the original charges.

The notice was required to be filed by Thursday if the 37-year-old Frenchman wanted to appeal. It contained no legal arguments about the case; those will be filed later.

Since his sentencing, Moussaoui has said he lied when testifying at his sentencing trial that he was to hijack a fifth jetliner on Sept. 11, 2001. He has returned to claiming – as he had for four years before the trial testimony – that he had nothing to do with the suicide hijackings that took nearly 3,000 lives on 9-11.

Moussaoui was in jail in Minnesota on immigration charges on 9-11, but he has admitted he was training to hijack a 747 jetliner and fly it into the White House as part of a later plot to gain release of a radical Egyptian sheik who is serving a life term for terrorist acts.