Moussaoui

[billybob]

......A no-win situation. Hopefully, the sentence to obscurity in a closed prison for life will achieve something other than martyrdom, but what?

As far as I can tell, he has become a political prisoner, and sooner or later American citizens will be held hostage by people demanding his release.

There's no clear path to justice in this case because he was convicted on the strength of his own evidence, and it was his intention that he be convicted and executed. Only he knows for certain the strength of his links with Al Quaida, and the show trial offered little in the way of evidence to link him to the emotive cockpit voice recordings that were submitted as 'evidence'.

The whole trial and its outcome make little sense to me. I don't think the prosecution had enough evidence, but the overwhelming pressure for a conviction meant that there had to be a trial. The idea that execution could ever be considered on the strength of the mixture of hearsay and self-implication that was offered as evidence does not sit easy with me. Perhaps someone can explain to me exactly what he was proven to have done, and why so many people want him dead.