US prosecutors rested their death penalty case against British-linked al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui today with the testimony of a former FBI agent.

AN FBI agent testified yesterday that his superiors repeatedly ignored his warnings before 9/11 that Zacarias Moussaoui might be a terrorist intent on hijacking an airliner.

AN angry federal judge has unexpectedly recessed the death penalty trial of confessed al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui.

THE sentencing trial of Zacarias Moussaoui opened in Alexandria, Virginia, yesterday with the selection of a jury that will determine whether he is put to death for conspiring with al-Qaida terrorists to hijack planes and commit other crimes.