A US jury has found al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui eligible to be executed and decided that his lies to FBI agents led directly to at least one death in the terrorist attacks of September 11 2001.

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.

US government prosecutors today argued that a terrorist conspirator who studied in London must be executed for causing the deaths of nearly 3,000 people by failing to tell what he knew of the September 11 attacks.

Zacarias Moussaoui’s sentencing trial opened in Alexandria, Virginia, today 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.