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Courtroom Jihad Update from AP, with thanks to the Jeffrey Imm:
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Convicted Sept. 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui appealed the life sentence he got this month and the denial of his request for a new trial.In a one-paragraph notice of appeal, his court-appointed lawyers said Friday 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 May 18 if the 37-year-old Frenchman wanted to appeal his case. It contained no legal arguments about the case; those will be filed later with the appeals court.
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 Sept. 11, 2001....
On May 5, Moussaoui tried to withdraw his guilty plea and get a trial on the original charges. He argued that he hadn't understood the American criminal justice system when he pleaded and only after receiving a life sentence did he realize an American jury could give him a fair trial and not automatically sentence him to death.
Brinkema denied that motion the same day, citing a federal rule that bars withdrawing guilty pleas after sentencing.
Posted by Robert at May 12, 2006 8:06 PM
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During the trial Judge Brinkema made things exceedingly difficult for the prosecution. Now Moussaoui, who managed because of one juror who unfortunately remains anonymous to escape his just punishment, pushes his luck with this appeal based on his wish to deny the courtroom confession he made with such evident relish. Estopped, buster.
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at May 12, 2006 8:32 PM
Does this mean we get another chance to execute him by stoning, Oops cruel and inhumane! err beheading Oops cruel and inhumane! err cutting off one foot and one hand Oops cruel and inhumane! err cruxification Oops cruel and inhumane! err firing squad Oops cruel and inhumane! err electric chair Oops cruel and inhumane! err lethal injection Oops cruel and inhumane! err maybe some NPR jihad apologist can bore him to death. definitely ... inhumane...
Posted by: GrimReaperxxx at May 12, 2006 8:43 PM
Sounds like this brave warrior for Allah decided Allah isn't worth doing time in a butt-pounding Federal prison.
I guess CAIR will now claim Moussoui IS a Muslim and a victim of Islamophobia that forced him to confess to something he never did.
NO ISLAM - KNOW PEACE
Damn straight! #$#$#@@!
Posted by: RJLCyberPunk at May 12, 2006 9:20 PM
I thought during the sentencing trial that Moussoui-the-Great fully expected the American jury to hand him the death penalty, and thus would become a martyr in an indirect way. But the jury in it's wisdom gave him nothing of the sort; and now he squeals either for mercy from Us infidels, like the swine he is and that he represents, as well as demonstrates the overall cowardice prevelent among his lowly ilk. I personally am glad he will spend the rest of his life underground in a cell in Colorado max. prison... he is lucky he wasn't sent to Levinworth Prison in Kansas. But he will know fear, at least for one hour, every day that he lives.
Posted by: localmalcontent at May 12, 2006 10:28 PM
Clearly this development gives credence to the notion that Moussouai expected and desired a verdict of death. Now, with the full knowledge that he will face the same uncertainties that all of us have to face he wants to flip the script and take another course. Well to bad for him. He is getting exactly what he deserves, well almost. I would propose that the walls of his cell be covered with pictures of the victims of Sept 11th, so that he cannot for a moment forget what he has done.
Posted by: IslamIsTheEnemy at May 12, 2006 11:38 PM
This reminds me of a episode of Twilight Zone , a man makes a deal to live for ever , but after endless failed suicides he gets charged with murder.
While his Lawyer can't figure out why his client plead guilty and wants the Electric chair, the man knows if they can't fry him he must go free.
But a compassionate Jury returns with "Life in prison" .
Looks like Moussoui thought Satan would keep his promise to give him martyrdom for Allah's cause.
May moussoui live long and rot away in a cell as a pathetic shell of a human that sold his soul to Satan for the glory of murdering God's children for Islam and Muhammed's crusade of blood to oppress all people equally .
at May 13, 2006 12:47 AM
He deserves a fate worse than death. Maybe the lone juror was giving him exactly that. Four blank walls in solitary for the rest of your life (maybe 40 in Moussaoui's case) would be enough to _really_ make him insane.
Anyway, I picked this up off Comcast's news page:
http://www.comcast.net/news/international/index.jsp?cat=INTERNATIONAL&fn=/2006/05/12/390619.html&cvqh=itn_belgian
Shootings in Belgium Raise Racial Concerns
The people he went after were from Turkey and Mali. The police say he went after "black" people, but I thought Turks were fair skinned? Both are most likey Islamic. Could this be isolated, or something bigger?
They also call the MP3 Incident assailants 'Polish' even though we know that they were only Polish due to their IDs.
Posted by: BG at May 13, 2006 12:55 AM
He just misses the limelight. He wants to be the center of attention again...the best thing to do now, is ignore him, and let him compost...Allah invented composting, and he knows best...
Posted by: duh_swami at May 13, 2006 12:57 AM
Moussaoui is the Sirhan Sirhan (convicted-June 5, 1968 of the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy-one year to the date of the Arab-Israeli war) of our time. This monster Moussaoui has the same Karma as Sirhan Sirhan. Islam has the same Karma as Sirhan Sirhan and Moussaoui. I'll bet I turn out to be prophetic on the matter(not that I desire to be prophetic or even care to be prophetic on the matter.) Moussaoui is as evil and cruel and ultimately as absurd as Sirhan Sirhan and all evil.
Posted by: Frank at May 13, 2006 2:21 AM
Infide Pride, Foehammer, I need a complete translted kuran in English. I shall translate it in Hindi and start distrubuting it to Hindus in my city. Can you get me a copy of kuran in English?
Posted by: arjun.sevak at May 13, 2006 3:46 AM
For a guy that triumphantly boasted that the US lost he seems to be changing his tune now.
Reminds me of the ass clown german guy I work with who takes his side and insists the US lost.
Posted by: pissedoffcanadian at May 13, 2006 4:46 AM
arjun.sevak
http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/
try that...swami
Posted by: duh_swami at May 13, 2006 6:30 AM
Moussaoui's life will be dreary at the supermax prison. He will have a shower, toilet, electric lamp, concrete desk and stool, cigarette lighter and a 13-inch television.
Breakfast, lunch and dinner will be delivered to his cell, and he may choose from several culinary options for each meal. He will receive freshly laundered bedding and clothing, including prison-issue khakis, three times a week.
He will have no contact with any other inmate, and he will be shackled and accompanied by at least two guards every time he leaves his cell, which is for no more than two hours a day.
Mr. Moussaoui was a lousy lawyer at accomplishing what he really wanted. Perhaps Moussaoui can be a better shadid and will have the courage to force his guards to shoot him. Allahu akbar.
Posted by: David England at May 13, 2006 7:28 AM
His is a fate worse than death, life in prison and no chance of being shaheed (martyr) and now he wants to appeal the sentencing...well I think him spending the rest of his miserable life in ISOLATION is a great sentence and will serve as a deterrent to some other fools thinking of making a move against us.
Posted by: chuck at May 13, 2006 7:30 AM
Indonesia says it plans to build nuclear plant,
nothing to do with mahmoud,i am sure,lol
at May 13, 2006 8:06 AM
arjun.sevak and duh_swami Here is an excerpt of some weasel words at the referenced website:
"Note that any translation of the Qur'an immediately ceases to be the literal word of Allah, and hence cannot be equated with the Qur'an in its original Arabic form." "...each of the translations on this site is actually an interpretation which has been translated."
How's that for a discalimer? Where is that kind of logic found in any other religion?
Posted by: Pelayo at May 13, 2006 9:10 AM
the spirit of islam is evil,evil is born of chaos.logic will not apply.
at May 13, 2006 9:18 AM
storagemanager, allow me to illucidate -
If every translation is a mere interpretation, this allows Islamic apologists the escape hatch to tell infidels that they do not understand the true word of Mohammedanism. They can say that we are wrong, and Islam is really, really a religion of peace and goodwill toward dhimmis. "Logic" was a poor choice of words on my part. Christians worked out the problem with translations a long damn time ago.
If Mohammed really was filled with the spirit of Allah, he could have spoken in tongues, and all peoples could have heard the true word.
at May 13, 2006 9:31 AM
Pelayo....you are so right....the god i worship speaks to my heart.
Posted by: storagemanager at May 13, 2006 9:35 AM
Outstanding!
Posted by: Pelayo at May 13, 2006 9:38 AM
Pelayo,
I really am getting dumber, as I age. You and storagemanager have produced the perfect argument to the classic "do you speak Arabic" comeback. I never even thought of that! (Maybe because my prayers are in English, and I feel that an omniscient God understands all languages.)
duh_swami, thanks for that link. Now I have a quick reference source.
at May 13, 2006 10:45 AM
this works too Abscedere :::the lord said,if as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this,then nothing they plan to do will be impossiable for them.come,let us go down and confuse their language so they will not UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER.genesis 11:6....god understands all languages,he made them.he is GOD.why can't islam understand that?
Posted by: storagemanager at May 13, 2006 11:24 AM
Fly Zach into LA. Appoint Judge Lance Ito to the federal bench and assign him Zach's appeal. Lance weeps before the TV cameras and commutes Zach's unfair sentence. Zach schools up with OJ in Orlando and it's love at first sight. OJ accepts Zach's call to Islam, and they ride the A-train uptown from then on.
Posted by: Alarmed Pig Farmer at May 13, 2006 11:35 AM
I thought this type of scum is supposed to be so death loving! Will someone kill him!
Posted by: Dumbo at May 14, 2006 1:30 AM
Frank, Sirhan Sirhan was an Eastern Orthodox Christian. Yes, he was a Falastin Arab nationalist, but not a Muslim. He may have become a Muslim in prison, but he was not one when he assassinated Robert F. Kennedy.
Posted by: Kepha at May 14, 2006 10:01 PM
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