‘I am al Qaida,’ proclaims Moussaoui in US court

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.

The judge told prospective jurors that those who are chosen will decide whether he lives or dies.

The acknowledged al Qaida conspirator, often a volatile figure in the courtroom, got into an argument with US District Judge Leonie Brinkema in the first minute of the proceedings, demanding: “I want to be heard,” and: “This trial is a circus.”