The Pentagon is asking for nearly $450m to maintain and upgrade the Guantanamo Bay prison that President Barack Obama wants to close.

A Corkman whose sister and niece were killed in the Sep 11, 2001, attacks on New York is to give evidence in the trial of the men who masterminded the terrorist acts.

A US appeal court upheld the conviction of Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person to stand trial in an American court over the September 11 attacks.

Britain is to delay the extradition of radical Muslim preacher Abu Hamza to the US to face charges that he helped set up an al Qaida terror training camp.

Federal investigators said today that they believe it is likely that would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid has “important information” about terrorist activities, and told a judge that they would like to question him, but do not believe he is entitled to a public defender now that his criminal case is over.

FRANTIC callers trapped on the upper floors of the burning World Trade Center sought help from emergency operators who were unable to offer much more than words of encouragement, according to recordings of emergency phone calls from September 11, 2001, released yesterday.

AN AUDIO recording in which al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden says convicted September 11 plotter Zacarias Moussaoui played no role in the attacks is authentic, a US intelligence official said yesterday.

Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person convicted in the United States for the 9/11 terror massacre attacks, had nothing to do with the operation, according to an audiotape by Osama bin Laden released on the Internet tonight and monitored in Cairo.

Convicted September 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui says he lied on the witness stand about being involved in the terrorist plot and wants to withdraw his guilty plea and go to trial.

US Judge Leonie Brinkema sent Zacarias Moussaoui to prison for life today, to “die with a whimper,” for his role in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

An unrepentant Zacarias Moussaoui was sentenced to life in prison today for his role in the September 11, 2001, attacks.

Zacarias Moussaoui’s mother today blamed France for not fighting harder for her son’s case, and said his race and his colour were partly to blame for the US jury’s decision to sentence him to life in prison over the September 11 attacks.

After listening to six weeks of argument, tears and revelations, more of the jurors who spared Zacarias Moussaoui’s life were moved by the al-Qaida conspirator’s turbulent, deprived childhood than by claims that he was a delusional psychotic seeking martyrdom.

A US jury tonight rejected the death penalty for al Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui and decided he must spend life in prison for his role in the infamous ‘9/11’ attacks.

More than a week has passed since jurors in the Zacarias Moussaoui sentencing trial began deliberating, and as time passes, the odds increase that the jury will refuse to order his execution, according to experts.

The judge in Zacarias Moussaoui’s death penalty trial admonished jurors today to avoid looking up words in the dictionary after learning that one went on the internet to see what “aggravating” means.

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.

Zacarias Moussaoui’s mother, describing her life as “hell”, today left France for the United States to be there when a federal jury decides whether her son faces life in prison or the death penalty.

Jurors in the US trial of Zacarias Moussaoui headed into a second day of deliberations today to decide whether the September 11 conspirator should receive a death sentence or life in prison.

ZACARIAS Moussaoui’s fate has been placed in the hands of a jury that will decide whether he is executed for his part in the September 11 attacks.

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.

Final legal arguments are being delivered to a jury in the US, which must decide if al-Qaida plotter Zacarias Moussaoui should be executed.

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.

The US judge in the death-penalty trial of September 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui has said the case is one of the most complex criminal cases in American history.

THE US Government has released the most extensive list yet of the hundreds of detainees who have been held at the Guantanamo Bay prison - nearly all labelled enemy combatants, but only a handful of whom have faced formal charges.

THE US government yesterday conceded it had no evidence that shoe bomber Richard Reid was to have conducted a terror hijacking with Zacarias Moussaoui on September 11, 2001, as Moussaoui has claimed.

The US government today conceded it had no evidence that British would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid was to have conducted a terror hijacking with Zacarias Moussaoui, as Moussaoui has claimed.

The US government has released the most extensive list yet of the hundreds of detainees who have been held at the Guantanamo Bay prison – nearly all labelled enemy combatants, but only a handful of whom have faced formal charges.

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.

A defence psychologist today said he concluded that Zacarias Moussaoui is a paranoid schizophrenic based on observations of the actions and writings of the confessed terrorist conspirator who was described earlier as convinced US President George Bush will set him free.

A witness called by US defence attorneys trying to spare the life of September 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui said today he came from a broken home where his mother was repeatedly beaten, and has a history of mental illness in his family.

Reasserting his role in the September 11, 2001, terror attacks, al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui told jurors he has “no regret, no remorse”, was disgusted by the heart-rending testimony of victims and relatives and only wished they had suffered more.

CONFESSED al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui returned to the witness stand yesterday, arguing that he could not get a fair trial so close to the Pentagon and denying he was trying to sabotage his defence by testifying earlier he was to have piloted a fifth plane during the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

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.

IN the final minutes of doomed United Air Lines Flight 93, on September 11, 2001, hijackers try to shake off passengers trying to take control of the plane as it flies over Pennsylvania.

US Federal prosecutors seeking the execution of Zacarias Moussaoui figuratively placed the jury aboard doomed Flight 93 for its last searing moments, playing a recording in which the September 11, 2001, hijackers were heard ordering passengers to “shut up” and “sit”.

Prosecutors approached the end of their US death-penalty case against September 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui after a gruelling week of testimony about the appalling impact of the September 11, 2001, attacks on victims and their families.

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 Rudolph Giuliani told Zacarias Moussaoui’s death penalty trial, yesterday, that he was unwilling to believe people were jumping to their deaths from the World Trade Center until he saw it with his own eyes.

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.

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.