Jurors in the Zacarias Moussaoui case reached a fourth day of deliberations today to decide whether the September 11 conspirator should be executed or sentenced to life in a US prison.

Jurors in the Zacarias Moussaoui case completed a third day of deliberations today without deciding whether the September 11 conspirator should be executed or imprisoned for life.

Jurors in the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui asked for but were denied a dictionary today for use during their deliberations on whether the September 11 conspirator should receive a death sentence or life in prison.

THE United States government admitted there was no proof to back Zacarias Moussaoui’s dramatic courtroom confession that he was to have been a key player in the September 11 attacks.

SEPTEMBER 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui’s isolation from family and social support networks left him vulnerable to recruitment by al-Qaida, an expert on cults told his trial yesterday.

Confessed al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui, taking the witness stand in Alexandria, Virginia, today argued that he cannot get a fair trial so close to the Defence Department and denied he was trying to sabotage his defence by testifying earlier that he was to have piloted a fifth plane on September 11, 2001.

Jurors weighing the fate of September 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui viewed gruesome photographs of bodies burned inside the Pentagon and heard from two determined military officers who crawled almost blindly to safety through falling debris, choking smoke and searing heat.

PROSECUTORS seeking Zacarias Moussaoui’s execution introduced gruesome evidence of the horrors of terrorism yesterday, showing pictures of burned and blackened bodies from the September 11, 2001, attack on the Pentagon.

The judge has urged prosecutors to show restraint, but it has proved difficult to blunt the emotional impact as families of 9/11 victims tell their tales to jurors in the US death-penalty trial of September 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui.

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani appeared today at the trial where a jury is considering whether admitted al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui should be put to death in connection with the September 11, 2001 attacks.

Now that a US jury has delivered a verdict that al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui is eligible for the death penalty, his lawyers face an uphill battle as they try to save a client who apparently wants to die.

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 federal judge in the death penalty trial of al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui accepted a government compromise today that will allow prosecutors to present new witnesses about aviation security.

US prosecutors and defence attorneys agree the fate of al Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui could hinge on whether a federal judge sticks to her ruling that the government contaminated half its case by coaching witnesses and lying to the defence.

Prosecutors are urging a judge to reconsider her decision to exclude half the US government’s case against confessed al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui.

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

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.

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.

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.

After more than four years of wrangling and delay, the death penalty trial of the only man charged in connection with the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks is ready to begin in the US.

Confessed al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui was unexpectedly allowed to re-enter the federal courtroom in Virginia today for the selection of a jury to decide whether he is executed or imprisoned for life.

A US federal judge is trying to turn the courtroom misbehaviour of confessed al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui into a useful tool for picking the jury that will decide whether he is put to death or imprisoned for life.

PROCLAIMING: “I am al-Qaida,” Zacarias Moussaoui was twice removed from a federal courtroom in Alexandria, Virginia in the US yesterday at the outset of jury selection in his terrorist conspiracy trial.

Proclaiming: “I am al-Qaida!”, Zacharias Moussaoui was escorted from a federal courtroom in Alexandria, Virginia today at the outset of jury selection in his terrorist conspiracy trial.

Finally, new cast members are joining the long-running legal drama of confessed al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui.

Zacarias Moussaoui, the first person convicted in a US court over the 9/11 terror attacks, is facing the death penalty after admitting his part in the plot.

Zacarias Moussaoui pleaded guilty today to helping al-Qaida carry out the September 11 hijackings and said he understood he could be put to death for his role in the deadliest terror attack in US history.

Lawyers for alleged 9/11 terror massacre conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui today argued that he is incompetent to plead guilty to crimes that carry a possible death sentence.

Zacarias Moussaoui asked for nothing in exchange for pleading guilty to a role in a terrorist conspiracy that includes the September 11, 2001, attacks, an admission that could bring the death penalty, federal officials said in Washington.

ZACARIAS MOUSSAOUI, the only person in the United States charged in connection with the September 11 attacks, is offering for a second time to plead guilty, a legal source said yesterday.

Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person in the US charged over the September 11 terrorist attacks, has told the US government he plans to plead guilty, it is reported today.

A US appeals court is hearing arguments today on whether the US government should be barred from seeking the death penalty for accused September 11 plotter Zacarias Moussaoui because it refused a judge’s order to produce al-Qaida defence witnesses.

A JUDGE has dealt a severe setback to the only prosecution arising from the September 11 attacks, ruling that the US government cannot seek to execute Zacarias Moussaoui or introduce trial evidence linking the al-Qaida loyalist to the suicide hijackings.

A judge dealt a severe setback to the only US prosecution arising from the September 11 attacks, ruling that the government cannot seek to execute Zacarias Moussaoui or introduce trial evidence linking the al-Qaida loyalist to the suicide hijackings.

A US federal judge today barred the US government from seeking the death penalty for terrorism suspect Zacarias Moussaoui, inflicting a major defeat on the government for refusing to let the defendant question three al-Qaida prisoners.

THE US government has asked a judge to dismiss all charges against terrorism suspect Zacarias Moussaoui.

The US government has called for all charges against alleged September 11 plotter Zacarias Moussaoui to be dropped as part of a legal move to stop him speaking to al Qaida prisoners.f

The US government has asked a judge to dismiss all charges against terrorism suspect Zacarias Moussaoui.

The US government has asked a judge to dismiss all charges against terrorism suspect Zacarias Moussaoui, according to a motion released tonight.

A dog trainer was sentenced to six and a half years in prison today for providing defective bomb-sniffing dogs to the US government after the September 11 attacks and lying about their credentials.

THE US Justice Department is defying a court order to produce an al-Qaida prisoner for cross-examination by a man accused of the September 11 bombings.

A FEDERAL appeals court yesterday dismissed the US Government’s appeal of a lower court order granting accused September 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui the right to question a senior al-Qaida leader in US custody.

A US judge has rejected a government compromise proposal and ruled for a second time that terrorism suspect Zacarias Moussaoui needed to directly interview a senior al-Qaida prisoner to prepare his defence.

A US judge ruled today that accused terrorism suspect Zacarias Moussaoui is entitled to see a top secret proposal that would give him access to information from a senior al-Qaida captive.