Moussaoui Says He's Guilty.. Oh, So Guilty - 1:09 p.m.

"The World Trade Center! Look. Look. There it is. Look at The World Trade Center!"

I was thinking. No. Look at the damn fool who had a tourist biscuit for breakfast.

Taking a lazy glance in the direction of the towers I took that smart remark back after seeing smoke churning from the top of the towers like a cigarette standing on the wrong end in an ash tray. You know what happened from there, like that cigarette the towers leaned and did not rock, they collapsed into ashes.

That missing chunk of buildings in the lower Manhattan skyline will always be a reminder of what occurred that morning. If you've ever seen how huge they are in person, it's hard to believe that they fell taking little else of the area surrounding them.

As a consequence of that event we now have 100k plus troops in Iraq and not one person supposedly involved with the attacks have been caught subdued, duct taped, beaten with sticks, forced to listen to a Ying Yang album. Nothing.

I guess you can consider the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay part of the terrorist sweep, but for all the finger pointing and cave found video tapes, we're interested in seeing the head of the snake cut off. Don't snakes live as long as their eyes can move up and down?

On Air America yesterday one of the hosts played a sound bite of Senor' Bush saying fairly recently that he doesn't know where Bin Laden is and.. he "just doesn't spend that much time thinking about him."

I wish I had the sound clip to insert here.. so you can hear firsthand how absurd that sounds.

You want to know where Bin Laden is? Nicky Mac sent a clue.

Hey, you should've sent this to the White House.

But we do have one guy on trial: Zacarias Moussaoui the so-called 20th hijacker. He was taken into custody in August 2001 after a flight school operator reported him for suspicious behavior. When questioned he told investigators that he just wanted to learn how to fly. Not sure if they released him but after 9/11 he was quickly in a cell for conspiracy to commit acts of terrorism. Here's the indictment the Feds laid on him Moussaoui indictment

His trial hasn't been covered that well on major media outlets. Like Bush, they just don't think that much about these things. There are car accidents on the Long Island Expressway that need attention.

The trial has been crazy enough to make for entertaining TV, with Moussaoui saying one thing and then another, apparently just having fun with the whole thing. His lawyers have declared him unfit to speak on his own behalf. Moussaoui has already pleaded guilty to the crimes. Although he's believed to have been involved in the plot no one thinks he was a deep operative. The trial at this point is to determine if he'll get life in prison or the death penalty.

A couple of weeks ago the prosecution lawyers almost blew the death penalty case after it was discovered they had discussed testimony with Federal Aviation Administration witnesses. Something the judge had barred them from doing, court was recessed and the prosecution got reprimanded for being dumb and just plain stupid.. considering it was the second time they had directly violated the judge's orders.

Despite pleading guilty and then doing everything to make people think he wasn't. Yesterday Moussaoui took the stand and for the first time cleared up any doubts he may have placed in people's minds. Cool and calm during a 3 hour testimony - see the lean in the drawing - he was indeed the 5th hijacker. He told the court that he was supposed to fly a plane into the White House on September 11th. He said he wasn't supposed to be on the plane the crashed in Pennsylvania, Flight 93, he was supposed to hijack a fifth plane; a plan that didn't work out.

He also talked about his relations with Bin Laden and how he was seen as the fuck-up of their little crew. After initially getting the boot, Bin Laden supposedly reinserted him into the plot.

When asked why he lied to prosecutors on August 2001, he said it was to make sure everything would unfold as planned.. *duh*

People are skeptical about this latest testimony and the timing of it. He had previously pled guilty, as he says, because everyone was claiming he was the 20th hijacker, so he did it for "the fun of it." Now with the prosecution fumbling the case it's possible that he could get life in prison. Which is what his lawyers would like but the feeling is that Moussaoui wants nothing to do with life in prison and the terrible meat loaf dinners. The best outcome for him is to die a martyr and take full advantage of those 70 virgins in Al-Quaeda heaven.

So he's doing all he can to make sure that happens.

Did you know Bin laden? "Yup. He came over for goat stew many times. Many times, my friend"

Can you fly a plane? "Umm. Like how you say?.. Tom Cruise in Top Gun. Yes. I fly very well."

Are you just saying this to fuck with me? "Oh no. I would not do that.. I believe in destiny ... What I am doing now, I just have to speak the truth and God takes care of the rest."

That last quote is from yesterday's testimony..

I know about the 9/11 conspiracy theories. This isn't to get into that aspect of it. Should Moussaoui receive the death penalty or not? That's the question.

Here's one opinion wrapped up in a paragraph: "Would-be suicide jihadists want to die in their struggle against us in the deluded belief that God will reward their murderous cowardice. Once they are in our custody, they lose the power to achieve that goal. Capital punishment gives them the martyrdom they crave, making them symbols of sacrifice to would-be followers rather than powerless, humiliated prisoners passing the decades alone and increasingly forgotten in a cell."

I say let him get prison muscles. A lifetime of pushups makes for a nice look in a t-shirt.