Zacarias Moussaoui’s fate was tonight placed in the hands of a US jury that will decide whether he is to be executed over the deaths of September 11, 2001.

A US jury must now decide whether confessed al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui is a calculating terrorist responsible for the deaths of Americans on September 11, 2001, or an al-Qaida lackey with delusions of grandeur who had nothing to do with the attacks.

Details of what happened to the four hijacked jetliners on September 11, 2001, have been known for years, but when a US prosecutor read a simple minute-by-minute account of the attacks, the jury deciding the fate of confessed al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui hung on every word.