Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person convicted for the 9/11 attacks, renounces terrorism, al Qaeda and ISIS while serving a life sentence from behind bars at America's Supermax prison
Zacarias Moussaoui, the only man ever convicted in a US court for a role in the September 11 attacks, now says he is renouncing terrorism, al-Qaeda and ISIS. Moussaoui is serving a life sentence at the Supermax federal prison in Colorado after narrowly escaping the death penalty at his 2006 trial. He was sometimes referred to as the missing 20th hijacker, and while he was clearly a member of al-Qaeda there is scant evidence to suggest he was slated to hijack a plane on September 11, 2001. Instead, prosecutors pinned responsibility on Moussaoui because they said he could have prevented the attacks if he had not lied to the FBI about his knowledge of al-Qaeda and its efforts to attack the US when he was arrested in August 2001. In a handwritten court motion Moussaoui filed with the federal court in Alexandria last month, Moussaoui wrote, 'I denounce, repudiate Usama bin Laden as a useful idiot of the CIA/Saudi. I also proclaim unequivocally my opposition to ...