Moussouai gets life in prison

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I guess I can still reserve a modicum of faith in the US legal system.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

Nice.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

good

― -+-+-+++- (ooo), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

even tho I still have doubts about his guilt wrt to anything and think its pretty clear the guy is BONKERS as opposed to an exclusively "evil threat" I am very gratified that national bloodlust for a scapegoat has lost out to legal reasoning in this particular instance.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

This is the most pleasant surprise imaginable.

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

that is kinda shocking. he went out of his way to antagonize everybody in the courtroom, especially the jury. i mean, they established sans doute that whatever else he is he's a reprehensible human being. i'm impressed with the jury. i can only imagine the howls of outrage rising.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

it'll be interesting to see what he has to say in twenty years' time about all this.

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

Wow. Hats off to the jurors.

― My Vileness Is a Dream (noodle vague), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

oh I don't think we're gonna hear much from him. He'll become a curiosity, like James Earl Ray or Sirhan Sirhan.... nice courtroom exit quote tho ("America you lost! I won" - goading us to the bitter end...)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

in Hersh's chapter on Moussouai in "Chain of Command" he reports that Al Qaeda/extremist orgs all thought he was "too crazy" and "unbalanced" to be of any use to them. Its pretty clear how anyone would come to that conclusion, esp. after the trial...

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/0203/images/afghanistan/walker_enlarge.jpg

Ha, I only got 20 years!

― JW Lindh (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

Hahahaha best jury ever!

Moussouai: "I want to die for my cause!"
Jury: "Too bad, psychoface; LIFE!"

― Dan (Hahahaha) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

John Podhoretz complains.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 20:36 (nineteen years ago)

ned, why do you do that to yourself?

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

Who's to say hes not going to get killed in prison within the year? If he got the death penalty he'd probably live a bit longer...

― Stuh-du-du-du-du-du-du-denka (jingleberries), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

ned, why do you do that to yourself?

It amuses me to see how people try to explain away things.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

actually, that's what i was thinking; this guy's gunna get iced long before he spends a Manson amount of time in there.

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― kingfish doesn't live here anymore (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 20:39 (nineteen years ago)

like the feds are ever gonna let this guy out of 24-hour solitary lockdown, fules.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

He's obv. going to that same superprison they have the Unabomber in and the like.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 20:42 (nineteen years ago)

it'll be interesting to see what he has to say in twenty years' time about all this.

I hypothetically wonder the same thing about Timothy McVeigh.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

What? That Arkham Asylum place? that's no good, people are always breakin' out of there alla time

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― kingfish doesn't live here anymore (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 20:45 (nineteen years ago)

that podheretz thing is rofflicious

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 21:31 (nineteen years ago)

oh, moussaoui

― accountsettings (account), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 21:42 (nineteen years ago)

I couldn't resist tuning in to Fox News (ah, the joys of Sky Digital) right after the verdit to hear just how disgusted they were.

One of the anchors demanded that the jury be made to come on national TV to explain themselves. Fair and balanced my arse.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Thursday, 4 May 2006 06:11 (nineteen years ago)

I would have thought Fox of all people would be gleeful that a selfproclaimed martyr happy to die for his cause would be better served suffering and rotting in jail, as Dan's pointed out!

Killing him's what he probably wanted, and would've given Al-Q types more reason to jump up and down. Isolation til he dies painfully of old age - thats the ticket.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 4 May 2006 06:16 (nineteen years ago)

Mrs Sunshine pointed out last night that if Bush thinks someone should be executed because they knew that Osama bin Laden was planning to attack New York with hijacked airliners but did nothing about it, he should be the first to turn himself in (given the 6 August 2001 report entitled "Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States" and all that).

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Thursday, 4 May 2006 06:19 (nineteen years ago)

Nice one, Mrs Sunshine. A copy of My Pet Goat is on its way to you now!

Absolutely brilliant work by the jury, BTW. I'm curious to see if the Bushies start moaning about some crimes being too sensitive for as-enshrined-in-US-law juries to hear...oh, wait...

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 4 May 2006 06:35 (nineteen years ago)

Peggy Noonan is aggreived.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 4 May 2006 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

Aggrieved by her attachment to things even she (appropriately) describes as "non-sequiturs" and her strange blindness to the reason he's not being executed (said reason being that being deemed too lame to participate reliably in mass murder is not at present a capital crime)?

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 4 May 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

That was a rhetorical question, obviously.

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 4 May 2006 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

Indeed.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 4 May 2006 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

these damn activist juries!

― kingfish doesn't live here anymore (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 4 May 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

haha

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 4 May 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

figure this one out

Without commenting directly on the jury's decision, Bush declared, "Evil will not have the final say. This great nation will prevail."

― kingfish doesn't live here anymore (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 4 May 2006 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

Evil did not have the final say, Monkeypaws. A JURY did.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 4 May 2006 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

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