Bye Bye Anti-American Guy

Well, if there was any doubt that Zacarias Moussaoui would get the death penalty, his testimony most assuredly erased that doubt. Moussaoui testified that he was to be in charge of flying a fifth plane into the White House on 9/11. From The Washington Post:

Testifying at his own death-penalty trial, over the objections of his attorneys, Moussaoui said he had not known the precise date the attacks were to take place, but that he knew they would involve the White House, the World Trade Center and other targets.

He said he was supposed to head a five-man crew that also would have included Richard Reid, a British citizen who tried to set off explosives in his shoes aboard a transatlantic flight two months after the Sept. 11 attacks.

Moussaoui's attorneys simply sat back and shook their heads as he discredited pretty much their entire case. According to NPR, even the prosecutors were stunned to hear Moussaoui admit to being a part of the 9/11 conspiracy after he has denied it up to now.

I'd say he's a dead man.