CNN: High court rejects Moussaoui case

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http://edition.cnn.com/2005/LAW/03/21/scotus.moussaoui/

High court rejects Moussaoui case
By Phil Hirschkorn
CNN
Monday, March 21, 2005 Posted: 1548 GMT (2348 HKT)

(CNN) -- The Supreme Court Monday rejected the appeal of Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person publicly charged in the United States in connection with the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

The justices announced their decision Monday after meeting privately Friday to discuss the case.

Moussaoui, an admitted member of al Qaeda, the Muslim terrorist group linked to the September 11 attacks, had asked the court to rule on whether his right to a fair trial hinges on obtaining testimony from other al Qaeda detainees who, he believes, would exonerate him.

The trial, originally scheduled for September 2002, has been indefinitely delayed as a dispute over witness access moved through the U.S. courts.

Moussaoui is facing the death penalty in a six-count federal indictment obtained three months after 19 hijackers commandeered four jetliners and crashed them into the twin towers of the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, killing 2,973 people, not counting themselves.

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Why won't they let him obtain the testimoney from the other detainees?

Not.

If they let him testify, he would show what a complete sham Al Qaeda is.