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

The headquarters supervisor of the FBI’s international terrorism section told a court today that he spent about 20 seconds discussing the case of Zacarias Moussaoui before the September 11 2001 terror attacks.

A former roommate of confessed al-Qaida terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui told FBI agents that Moussaoui had expressed an interest in holy war and believed Muslims were within their rights to kill infidels, according to US court testimony.

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.

The judge in the death-penalty trial of confessed al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui warned prosecutors that they were moving their case into shaky legal territory.