PROSECUTORS in Zacarias Moussaoui’s death penalty trial in Alexandria, Virginia, yesterday sought to unravel his claims that he knew nothing of the September 11, 2001, attacks, arguing that al-Qaida members are carefully trained to lie when caught.

The US jury that will decide the fate of confessed terrorist conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui is getting a crash course in the history of Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida network from the government’s first witness.