Terrorist has no remorse for 9/11
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He said hearing a Navy officer sobbing in court made his day.
?So you would be happy to see 9/11 again?? prosecutor Rob Spencer asked.
?Every day until we get you,? the bearded 37-year-old Frenchman shot back.
As court-appointed defense lawyers began the last phase of their effort to save him from execution, Moussaoui put in a second unsettling appearance on the witness stand.
For 2-1/2 hours, Moussaoui argued with defense lawyer Gerald Zerkin and Spencer about when he had been telling the truth over the last four years and whether he was sane.
In the process, he revealed why he implicated himself in 9/11 after four years of denials, how he would have defended himself, his reasons for hating America and his dream of being freed by President Bush in a prisoner exchange for captured American troops.
Among his most startling statements, Moussaoui said Army Lt. Col. John Thurman?s harrowing account of escaping the burning Pentagon left him with ?regret that he didn?t die.?
He mocked a Navy officer who wept as she described the death of two subordinates in the attack on the Pentagon.
?I think it was disgusting for a military person? to cry, Moussaoui said of Lt. Nancy McKeown. ?She is military. She should expect people at war with her to want to kill her.?
Asked if he was happy to hear her sobbing, he said, ?Make my day.?
?I?m glad there was pain, and I wish there will be more pain,? Moussaoui said. ?The children in Palestine and in Chechnya will have pain. I want you to share their pain.?
So, Spencer asked: ?You have no regret, no remorse??
?No regret, no remorse,? Moussaoui responded.
When he left court after the judge and jury, he yelled: ?God curse America. We will win. It?s just a question of time.?