A Terrorist's Trappings: The Zacarias Moussaoui Trial Exhibits

I could probably spend a lifetime going over the 1000+ exhibits that the Eastern Court just posted from the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui.

The exhibits include everything from the document giving final instructions to the hijackers (aptly prefaced by the acronym BS) to receipts from Circuit City.

There are posters of a 747 cockpit which were found torn up in a New Jersey hotel, supposedly help for preparing the pilots:


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There's the individual chronology for each of the hijackers. (see Atta's here)

Huge amounts of money transfers. (Listen anyone who says this guy is innocent is full of it... he is guilty, period)

A picture of the Logitech joystick someone used (presumably Zach...) to practice on MSFT flight simulator

We have ZM's email address: pilotz123@hotmail.com. (dosen't work I tried)

Then Phase II of the exhibits gets ugly. It includes pictures of body parts at WTC. And for all of you freaks who think the Pentagon plane was fakes please see this picture:


And I suppose this guy (warning, it is graphic!) was also just put into the Pentagon in a pilot seat.

Then incredibly sad elements from the trial including a suicide note from the wife of a victim of 9/11.

Then, I logged some time and read some of the first documents having to do with Usama Bin Laden.

Do you remember that video that was broadcast shortly after we went into Afghanastan, the one where we knew that UBL was the guy behind 9/11? Well, they used that as one of the transcripts in the trial. I re-read it last night. Here are some eirie sections from the video:

Sulaiman Gaith:

I saw that I was sitting with the Sheikh in the room, then I left from one room to another where there was a TV set. All of a sudden, the TV broadcast a huge event. The scene was of an Egyptian family - Do you know when there is a game and team wins and people's emotions are broadcast on TV screens... An Egyptian family is sitting - the father the mother and the children - the older son he is overjoyed... overjoyed. A caption shown on the TV, stating, "In revenge for the children of al-Aqsa. Usama Bin Laden executes strikes against the Americans

(Unidentified - "God is the greatest!)

Unidentified Sheikh:
By God, this is amazing. By God, Sheikh, when people felt - announcing [the news about] the airplace and... they could not believe it. They were amazed, in the first place, to see this success. And then, what kind of brains do those people have? How stupid can they be?... After the Pentagon [was hit], they started mobilizing by air and by sea, and this one went underground and the other one went to a hiding place... They reached a certain level of horror and fright. They truly expected a coup, I mean and that there people would govern them... [laughing]

This is just creepy and sad. And a sad reminder about how unprepared we were. This is the mindset they have. No one would blame our leaders for taking action to avoid threats against them... but this is the mindset we are dealing with. If the Israelis pull out, the entire Arab world will see it as a victory.

read the transcript here:

Then we have the 1998 transcript of the interview with UBL. This gives us some interesting context for the evenst in Qana this last weekend.

UBL: "Clinton stands after Qana and defends the horrible massacre taht severed the heads of children and killed 100 persons. Clinton stands and claims Israel has a justification to defend itself."

Other revealing quotes:

UBL: "...we have seen particularly during the last decade the decline of the American government and the weakness of the American soldies who is ready to wage cold wars and unprepared to fight long wars. This was proven in Beirut when the Marines fled after two explosions... "

There there's UBL sounding like a Democrat:
"The only reason is your intransigence and your desire to take other people's money and to steal Muslim's oil under misguided terms... We believe that the biggest thieves in the world today is America and biggest terrorists are the Americans."

Then the double standard hypocrite comes out and says:
"We do not differentiate between those dressed in military uniforms and civilians; they are all targets in this fatwah."

Then John Miller asks about Ramzi YOusef (who was involved in the first WTC bombings:
UBL "America will see many youths that will follow Ramzi Yousef... We predict a black day for America and the end of the United States as united states, and will be separate states, and will retreat from our land and collect the bodies of its sons back to America. Allah willing"

Then the infamous paper tiger comment in the context of sending his men to Somolia:

"The youth were surprised at the low morale of the American soldiers and realized more than before that the American soldier is a paper tiger. And after a few blows he ran in defeat."

Then Miller turns prophet and asks: "The American people by in large do not know the name Bin Laden, but they soon likely will. Do you have a message for the American people?"

After rambling on about the American government being overrun by Jews, UBL declares:

"[The Jews] belive that all humans are animals to be exploited by them, and found that the Americans are the best created beings for that use... So, we tell the American people, and we tell the mothers of soldiers... if they value their lives and those of their children to find a nationalistics government that would look after their interests and not the interests of the Jews."

This should embolden our efforts to support Israel in this war. Israels war with Islam is our war as well it seems to me.

Then Miller goes on to ask about the gun behind him. From what I can tell UBL says it was a gun he was shot with. Remember how Bush has Saddam's pistols in his desk. I can think of one more token in the near future that should rest right near it...

Lastly, Miller compares Bin Laden to Teddy Roosevelt. It's just sick. Perhaps hindsight is 20/20 but Millers interview still strikes me a benign, almost playing into the hands of UBL.

You can read the whole thing here.