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.

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.

Laying out a stunning new version of his terrorist mission, al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui told jurors he was supposed to hijack a fifth jetliner on September 11, 2001, with would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid and fly it into the White House.

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