Moussaoui, Shoe Bomber Link Called "Highly Unlikely" By FBI.

Source: Washington Post

It appears there is no evidence linking "shoe bomber" Richard Reid to the prior 9/11 attacks, and that Zacarias Moussaoui's testimony may have been a ruse in his quest to acquire the death penalty in his desire to become a martyr.

The FBI has no evidence to support Zacarias Moussaoui's testimony that "shoe bomber" Richard Reid was to be part of his mission to fly a hijacked airplane into the White House on Sept. 11, 2001, according to a document made public yesterday at Moussaoui's death penalty trial.

When he took the witness stand, Moussaoui told jurors that top al-Qaeda officials had instructed him to attack the White House and said Reid was to be part of his crew. Moussaoui's lawyers have told the jury that he was exaggerating his role, whereas prosecutors have said he was telling the truth.

But two analysts for the FBI, which is the prosecution's investigative arm, believe it is "highly unlikely" that Reid was slated to be involved in the Sept. 11 attacks, which destroyed the World Trade Center and damaged the Pentagon. Their opinion was in a stipulation, agreed upon by the defense and prosecution, that was read into the court record yesterday by Moussaoui's lawyers. It was presented to the jury as fact and was intended to tell jurors what Reid would have said had he testified.

"To date, there is no information available to indicate that Richard Reid had advance knowledge of the 9/11 attacks or was instructed by al-Qaeda leadership to conduct an operation in coordination with Moussaoui," the document said. It noted that Reid was traveling from Israel to Amsterdam between May and September 2001, a time when Moussaoui was in the United States taking flying lessons. Reid's own attack, in which he tried to blow up a jetliner with a bomb hidden in his shoe, did not take place until December 2001.

What's the point of this testimony which was agreed to by both parties?

If he gets the death penalty, he comes a internationally famous martyr in the Muslim world.

If he gets life in prison, an amazing accident will happen in a full security federal prison (where magically no guards are present), and someone will take his life in a revenge-based gangbang killing.

Either way, he dies, and no one wins in the end.

So why is the U.S. government wasting my tax dollars again by prosecuting this case?

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