Moussaoui withdraws guilty plea

Zacarias Moussaoui, the man dubbed ‘‘the 20th hijacker’’, declared today that he was guilty of four of six charges accusing him of conspiring with the September 11 terrorists, then abruptly withdrew his attempted plea after arguing with the US judge.

‘‘You want to link me to certain facts that will guarantee my death,’’ Moussaoui told Judge Leonie Brinkema as he withdrew a plea he tried to make an hour earlier at the court in Alexandria, Virginia.