Man in court in connection with September 11 attacks

Zacarias Moussaoui, the first man charged in connection with the September 11 attacks, has been ordered to remain in jail pending his trial.

Moussaoui, 33, is set to face trial for conspiring to murder thousands in the suicide hijackings.

At a brief appearance in a Virginia courtroom he heard a judge summarise six charges against him, four that carry a death sentence.

He appeared before US Magistrate Judge Thomas Jones just hours after being transported to Washington from New York, where he has been held since the attacks.

Moussaoui, a Frenchman of Moroccan descent, did not say a word during the appearance.

His lawyer told the court Moussaoui he would not ask for bail.

Moussaoui is charged with conspiring to commit acts of terrorism, aircraft piracy, destruction of aircraft, use of weapons of mass destruction, murder of US employees and destruction of US property.

While four charges could result in the death penalty, the other two carry maximum charges of life in prison.

Although he was in custody on September 11 on an immigration charge, authorities claim Moussaoui was in on the plot to hijack and crash airliners and followed many of the same patterns as the 19 hijackers, all of whom were named as unindicted co-conspirators along with Osama bin Laden.