Moussaoui Pleads Guilty Trial Begins

Juan Cole 04/23/2005

Moussaoui Pleads Guilty
Trial Begins in Spain

Zacarias Moussaoui pled guilty Friday to September 11- related charges. But he appears actually to have been envisaged as a “second wave”, and wanted to hijack a plane and fly it into the White House. Moussaoui is clearly mentally disturbed and his being unbalanced led to his arrest. He told the instructor at his flight school that he only wanted to learn to fly the plane, and was uninterested in knowing out to land!

The trial has begun in Spain of suspects there who may have been helping al-Qaeda.

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page