ABSTRACT
Dr. Douglas Linder of the University of Missouri at Kansas City writes of the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui: On the horrific morning of September 11, 2001, when planes crashed into buildings and fell from the sky, Moussaoui was sitting in a jail in Minnesota facing immigration charges. The Moussaoui case has been back before the courts periodically since he was sentenced to life in prison. The panel of judges held, “Moussaoui has failed to demonstrate that the Government withheld exculpatory material that would have caused Moussaoui to forego his guilty plea and proceed to trial, much less evidence of his actual innocence. Moussaoui remains in a high-security federal penitentiary and is likely to die there. In 1996, Bin Laden and other members of al Qaeda again relocated, this time to Afghanistan, where Bin Laden had made a reputation as a warrior and financier in the decadelong Jihad to expel the Russians.
