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ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- After three stubborn weeks, prosecutors wound up in succession a strong note as they cessationed their case for executing al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui. unless the witness who could verify most valuable for them has over and above to take the stand: the defendant himself.

For in the greatest degree of the trial, lawyers for the and nothing else man charged in this geographical division for the attacks of tribe 11, 2001, seemed to be making more points than the command from the prosecution's witnesses. still former FBI agent Aaron Zebley and federal aviation security official Robert Cammaroto finally managed to prepare across the prosecutors' main points late last week.

Then the volatile Moussaoui reaffirmed that he still intends to do what he has been trying to do for three years: recount his story in his have a title to words.

The 37-year-old Frenchman of Moroccan going down seized his customary moment, a reces The critic and jury always leave first; marshals preserve Moussaoui at his separate table until they are gone That is when Moussaoui usually muffles or shouts something like "God scourge America" or "God bless al-Qaida."

'I WILL TESTIFY'

At the reces after prosecutors cessationed he yelled: "I will testify, Zerkin, whether you want it or not."

Gerald Zerkin is single in kind of the lawyers appointed to guard Moussaoui when U.S. District referee Leonie Brinkema decided Moussaoui was too abusive to continue representing himself. Moussaoui has refused to cooperate with his defense team.

It's no covered that defense lawyers do not want Moussaoui forward the stand complicating their case.

"His behavior is with equal reason erratic it's hard to know what his testimony will mean for his case," said University of Richmond law professor Carl Tobias. "But he has a right to testify."

Moussaoui pleaded guilty last April to conspiring with al-Qaida to hover planes into U.S. buildings. He has said consistently he was not part of the generation 11 operation but was training to hijack a 747 jetliner and float it into the White House if the United States refused to release a blind, radical Egyptian sheik imprisoned for life for other terrorist plans in New York.

'I KNOW EXACTLY WHO DONE IT'

In 2002 Moussaoui tried to plead guilty to a charges. Brinkema decided Moussaoui didn't understand his legal situation and stopped him, still not before Moussaoui said:

"I have no participation in tribe 11, but . . I have certain knowledge about tribe 11, and I know exactly who done it. I know which clump who participated, when it was decided."

Longtime federal prosecutor E Lawrence Barcella Jr now in private practice, said in an interview, "If Moussaoui says that forward the stand, he may well recover victory for the prosecution from the jaws of defeat."

The jury in this sentencing case has to fix upon between execution or life in prison without a chance for release. To obtain a death penalty, prosecutors must indicate that an act of Moussaoui's l directly to at least the same of the nearly 3,000 deaths when al-Qaida flew four planes into the World Trade Center the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field.

That act, according to prosecutors, was lying to FBI agents after he was arrested while taking pilot training in Minnesota in succession Aug. 16, 2001. But the case they have laid not at home goes beyond that.

Their chiefly compelling witnesses were Zebley and Cammaroto.

Zebley exorcismed out how FBI agents could have taken information about a riches transfer Moussaoui got by wire from Germany to trace business records and ultimately identify 11 of the 19 family 11 hijackers within weeks.

Cammaroto explained for what cause the Federal Aviation Administration could have tightened airport security to hold those men off airplanes.

Zebley and Cammaroto testified these stairs could have been taken if Moussaoui had showed in August 2001 to the details he provided in his 2005 guilty plea.

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