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Article: Trial will judge Moussaoui and U.S. legal tactics; The case of the confessed Al-Qaida conspirators raises a tangle of questions about how suspected terrorists can be tried.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- February 5, 2006
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Byline: Greg Gordon; Staff Writer
Washington, D.C. -- He has spent more than four years in an isolated cell he calls his cave, under guard so tight his meals get slipped through a slot in the door.
Now Zacarias Moussaoui, the confessed Al-Qaida conspirator arrested in Minnesota before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, is finally going on trial.
Beginning Monday, jurors will be selected to decide whether the defiant French Moroccan should live or die in the wake of his guilty plea last year.
But the case, the only U.S. civil court prosecution stemming from the attacks, is significant for another reason: It shows how difficult ...