Zacarias Moussaoui

Zacarias Moussaoui (in deutschsprachigen Medien als Zacharias Moussawi bezeichnet) ist die einzige Person die in den USA für die Anschläge des 11. September auf das WTC angeklagt wurde.

Der Angeklagte hat sich nun für schuldig bekannt. Jedoch nicht für die Angriffe selbst, sondern lediglich den Plan, das Weiße Haus mit einem Flugzeug anzugreifen.

Es handelt sich um keine neue Schlagzeile. Bereits im Juli 2002 wollte er sich schuldig bekennen.

18.Juli 2002
Moussaoui will sich schuldig bekennen

Mit einem Schuldbekenntnis will der in den USA wegen der Terror-Anschläge vom 11. September angeklagte Franzose Moussaoui sein Leben retten. Die Richterin akzeptierte das Bekenntnis zunächst nicht.

Der in den USA wegen der Terroranschläge vom 11. September angeklagte Franzose Zacarias Moussaoui hat sich vor einem Gericht selbst als schuldig bezeichnet. Er sei ein Mitglied der Al Qaeda und habe einen Eid auf deren Führer Osama bin Laden geschworen, sagte der 34-Jährige bei einer Verhandlung am Donnerstag.

Mit dem Schuldbekenntnis wolle er sein Leben retten, sagte Moussaoui. Er wisse, welche Gruppe die Terroranschläge in New York und Washington verübt habe; dieses Wissen werde ihm helfen, zu überleben, erklärte er.

Die Richterin Leone Brinkema wies seine Selbstbeschuldigungen zurück, da er in der Vergangenheit schon öfter seine Meinung geändert habe. Sie forderte ihn auf, statt dessen Gnadenverhandlungen mit der Regierung aufzunehmen. Anschließend vertagte sie die Verhandlung um eine Woche.

Verschärfte Anklage

Am Donnerstag war erstmals eine dritte Anklageschrift gegen Moussaoui verhandelt worden. Sie soll den US-Strafverfolgern erlauben, für Moussaoui trotz geänderter gesetzlicher Bestimmungen die Todesstrafe zu beantragen. In der neuen Anklage werden «erschwerende Umstände» geltend gemacht. Ihm wird die Planung und der Vorsatz des Mordes und eines terroristischen Aktes vorgeworfen.

Die Anwälte Moussaouis hatten zu Beginn des Prozesses auf unschuldig plädiert. Später übernahm Moussaoui seine Verteidigung selbst. Bei einer Verhandlung im vergangenen Monat hatte auch die Richterin auf unschuldig plädiert.

Sollte Moussaoui bei seinem Schuldbekenntnis bleiben, würde ebenso wie im Fall des «amerikanischen Taliban» John Walker Lindh ein Gerichtsverfahren entfallen und nur noch Urteil und Strafmaß verkündet. Lindh konnte durch sein Geständnis Zugeständnisse der Staatsanwaltschaft erreichen. Für Moussaoui gibt es jedoch keine Gewähr, dass bei einem Geständnis die Forderung der Todesstrafe fallen gelassen wird.
Quelle: http://www.netzeitung.de/servlets/page?section=1109&item=198729

Zacarias Moussaoui die Person
Zacarias Moussaoui (geboren am 30. Mai 1968), ein Franzose Marrokanischer Herkunft, ist die einzige Person die in den USA für die Anschläge vom 11. September angeklagt ist. Er wird beschuldigt als "20. Hijacker" und für Verschwörung mit Osama bin Laden und dem al-Qaida Netzwerk für den Tod tausender Menschen verantwortlich zu sein.

In November of 2003, the FBI made mention of a different suspect as the 20th hijacker. Ramzi Binalshibh, a member of the Hamburg cell, was said to be the "first" 20th hijacker. He and Zakariyah Essabar were denied visas to the US, so the men allegedly scrambled to find another man to fill the spot. That was where Moussaoui allegedly falls in.

Moussaoui was arrested about four weeks prior to 9/11 and charged with an immigration violation. After the attack, Moussaoui was implicated in the attack and in December, 2001 a federal grand jury in Virginia charged him with conspiracy "to murder thousands of innocent people in New York, Virginia and Pennsylvania."

His trial opened in October, 2002 in Alexandria, Virginia under the view of Judge Leonie Brinkema. Prior to the opening of the trial, Moussaoui, to the shock of his court-appointed attorneys, declined their assistance and asked to defend himself. Brinkema deemed him competent to defend himself and allowed the trial to move forward. Moussaoui has since requested the occasional assistance of attorneys to help him with technical issues.

If convicted, Moussaoui could be given the death penalty. Germany says it will not release evidence against Moussaoui unless the U.S. promises not to seek the death penalty.

Moussaoui has admitted his involvement with al-Qaida, but he claims he was not involved in the 9/11 attacks. Rather, he has claimed that he was preparing for a separate attack. Ramzi Binalshibh, an al-Qaida leader in U.S. custody and an alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, has told investigators that Moussaoui met with him prior to 9/11, but Binalshibh chose not to use him. Binalshibh felt that Moussaoui had previously drawn too much attention to himself through a series of flight lessons and inquiries about crop dusting. No evidence directly linking Moussaoui to the 9/11 attacks has been released. Jemaah Islamiah leader Riduan Ismauddin, a.k.a. Hambali, sent cohort Yazid Sufaat to provide Moussaoui with $35,000 and travel documents in Malaysia in October 2000.

The case is widely seen as a barometer of the ability and willingness of the United States to give a fair hearing to terror suspects. Moussaoui has angered many people, including Judge Brinkema, with repeated outbursts and inflammatory statements. Moussaoui has admitted that he is using the trial as a soapbox to advertise Islamic fundamentalism and his views on America.

The trial has highlighted a tension in America between the judiciary and national security. Moussaoui has made requests for access to confidential documents and the right to call captive al-Qaida members as witnesses, notably Binalshibh, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, and Mustafa Ahmed al-Hawsawi. Both requests are claimed by prosecutors to be potential threats to national security. The motion to access confidential documents was denied by Judge Brinkema and a decision on the use of al-Qaida prisoners as witnesses is still pending.

Brinkema put the death penalty and 9/11 "off limits" on October 2, 2003, in reply to government defiance of her order to provide access to Moussaoui's witnesses. The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed Brinkema ruling, holding that the U.S. Government could use summaries of interviews/interrogatations of these witnesses. On March 21, 2005, the United States Supreme Court denied, without comment, Moussaoui's pre-trial appeal of the Fourth Circuit's decision, returning the case to Judge Brinkema. The latter restriction is no great problem for the prosecution, since the defendant seems pleased to admit involvement in a non-9/11 al-Qaida plot; but it would be an embarrassing end to the only 9/11 indictment likely to come. More ominously, it motivates the government to take future prosecutions to the military tribunals, where the defendant has very few rights.
Quelle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zacarias_Moussaoui

Chronik
1996
French authorities begin monitoring Moussaoui when they notice him with Islamic extremists.
1998
Zacarias Moussaoui attends the Khalden terrorist training camp in Afghanistan.
1999
Moussaoui allegedly attends a terrorist training camp in Afghanistan.
2000
Moussaoui visits Malaysia in September and stays in a condo where two of the September 11 hijackers had stayed in January 2000.
2001 - Mai
Moussaoui attends flight classes at Airman Flight School in Norman, Oklahoma, from February 26 through May 29. He takes more than 50 hours of flying lessons, but leaves without a pilot's license.
2001 - 1. und 3. August
Moussaoui allegedly is wired $14,000 from Ramzi Binalshibh, an alleged al Qaeda operative. The money was wired from Dusseldorf and Hamburg, Germany.
2001 - 16. August
The FBI in Minnesota arrest Moussaoui and charge him with an immigration violation. Agents fear his flight training may have violent intentions. The agency's Minnesota bureau tries to get permission to search his laptop computer, but is turned down. Moussaoui had the following items in his possession when he was detained: two knives, flight manuals for Boeing 747, flight simulator computer program, fighting gloves and shin guards, a piece of paper referring to Global Positioning System, a notebook listing phone numbers in Germany for "Ahad Sabet" and a computer disk with information about crop-dusting.
2001 - 11. September
The September 11 terrorist attacks, carried out by foreign pilots who trained at U.S. flight schools, provide evidence the FBI needed to secure a search warrant for Moussaoui's belongings. Authorities discover a commercially available flight simulation program, information about wind currents, jetliners and crop-dusting airplanes. The search helps prompt authorities to ground crop-dusters for fear of another terrorist plot.
2001 - 11. Dezember
A federal grand jury indictment in Virginia charges Moussaoui with conspiring with Osama bin Laden and other al Qaeda members "to murder thousands of innocent people in New York, Virginia and Pennsylvania."
2002 - 2. Jänner
A federal judge sets an October trial date for Zacarias Moussaoui. U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema enters innocent pleas for Moussaoui after he refuses to enter a plea for himself.
2002 - April
Moussaoui shocks his court-appointed public defenders, U.S. prosecutors and the judge handling the case by saying he wants to represent himself. Judge Brinkema later rules that Moussaoui is competent to represent himself.
2002 - 16. Juli
A federal grand jury indicts Moussaoui a third time, spelling out conduct that could lead to the death penalty.
2002 - 18. Juli
Judge Brinkema rejects Moussaoui's attempts to plead guilty to federal conspiracy charges during a court hearing.
2002 - 25. Juli
Moussaoui pleads guilty again, then withdraws the plea after an argument with the judge. In withdrawing his plea, Moussaoui admits having a role in Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda terrorist network but insists he was not involved in the September 11 terror plot.
2002 - 1. August
For the first time in three months, Moussaoui meets with court-appointed standby lawyers he had called "a horde of bloodsuckers."
2002 - 24. September
Prosecutors file court papers that say a business card found in the wreckage of United Flight 93 had a phone number on it that Moussaoui had telephoned. Prosecutors say the business card belonged to hijacker Ziad Jarrah, though they do not specify how they determined ownership of the card.
2002 - 20. November
Ramzi Binalshibh, an al Qaeda leader in U.S. custody, tells investigators that Moussaoui had met with Khalid Sheik Mohammad, the alleged mastermind of the September 11 attacks, in Afghanistan in 2000. Binalshibh says that Mohammed eventually lost confidence in Moussaoui and decided to use him in the September 11 plot only as a last resort.
2003 - 4. Februar
Judge Brinkema rules that Moussaoui may have access to detainee Ramzi Binalshibh, who U.S. officials say was a key planner in the September 11 attacks.
2003 - 14. Mai
Moussaoui claims in a brief filed by his defense attorneys that on September 11, 2001, he was preparing for a different al Qaeda operation to take place at a later date and in another country.
2003 - 3. Juni
A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals hears a government appeal of the Judge Brinkema's order to give Moussaoui video access to Ramzi Binalshibh. The government calls Binalshibh an "unavailable witness."
2003 - 2. Oktober
Judge Brinkema orders that the government will not be able to present evidence that Moussaoui had advance knowledge of or participated in the September 11 attacks. The sanctions were levied because federal prosecutors told Brinkema the government would not allow three high-ranking al Qaeda captives to testify in Moussaoui's trial or in pretrial depositions, as she previously ordered. Brinkema also strikes the death penalty from the indictment.
2003 - 14. November
Judge Brinkema revokes her permission for Moussaoui to represent himself.
2004 - 22. April
A panel of judges from the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals decides that the government may introduce evidence of the attacks in which Moussaoui is charged as a conspirator and pursue the death penalty against him. But the appeals court also decides that Moussaoui may introduce testimony from three al Qaeda captives that the defense believes would absolve him of any planning or participatory role in the multiple hijackings.
2004 - 22. Juli
The panel investigating the September 11, 2001, attacks issues its report, which determines that Moussaoui's role in the attacks is unclear. The report finds that the FBI failed to recognize the significance of Moussaoui's training and beliefs after his arrest in Minnesota in 2001.
2004 - 13. September
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals orders the Moussaoui case sent back to trial court so prosecutors and defense attorneys can work out a compromise on how to grant Moussaoui access to information supplied by al Qaeda captives that he says would help absolve him of the most serious charges against him.
2005 - 21. März
The Supreme Court rejects an appeal from Moussaoui, paving the way for the case to go back to trial.
2005 - 22. April
Moussaoui pleads guilty to all charges against him, despite efforts by his attorneys to object to their client's plea. He denies direct involvement with the September 11 attacks, but says he was part of a broader al Qaeda conspiracy to "use planes as weapons."
Quelle: http://edition.cnn.com/interactive/us/0207/moussoui.timeline...

Zacharias der Vorname
Herkunft und Bedeutung des Namens
* hebräisch: Jahwe hat sich erinnert
Namenstag
* 23. September
Bekannte Namensträger
* Prophet Sacharja, ein Prophet im 6. Jahrhundert v. Chr..
* Zacharias (Vater des Johannes)
* Papst Zacharias (* um 679 in Griechenland, † 15. März 752)
* Helmut Zacharias (* 27. Januar 1920 in Berlin, † 28. Februar 2002 in der Schweiz) war ein deutscher Violinist.
Quelle: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zacharias

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