Exclusive: Imprisoned 9/11 Terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui Fears Execution If Trump Wins, Requests Transfer to France
“Instead your Honor might concur that there is a possibility if not a probability that if the Ex US President Donald Trump was to be reelected He will sentence me to death by presidential executive order.”
Zacarias Moussaoui was convicted and is serving a life sentence in the federal SuperMax facility in Colorado for being part of the 9/11 airliner hijacking operation that killed more than 3,000 citizens and destroyed the World Trade Center towers in New York.
You can read his indictment here.
A quick recap of his part in the terrorist mayhem from the Associated Press:
Zacarias Moussaoui remains the only person ever convicted in a U.S. court in connection with the Sept. 11 attacks….
Moussaoui was arrested in August 2001, before the attacks, when his efforts to obtain advanced flight training drew suspicion. He was charged [that] December as being a member of the al-Qaida conspiracy that carried out the attacks that killed 3,000 people….
Moussaoui actually pleaded guilty to the charges against him, so the 2006 trial was simply to determine whether his sentence would be life in prison or death. In the first phase of the trial, prosecutors had to prove that Moussaoui’s role in the conspiracy led to the deaths of Sept. 11 victims, making him eligible for the death penalty.
Once he was determined to be eligible, the jury then considered whether he deserved the death penalty.
The jury found him eligible for execution, but one of 12 jurors voted for life in prison rather than execution. That was enough to keep Moussaoui off death row; he’s serving a life sentence in Colorado.
Recently, we received a tip from a reader who lost a family member on 9/11 that Moussaoui had requested a transfer to France, and the reader was concerned that once there he may be released by the French. The reader pointed out that there was zero press coverage.
A little digging reveals that our reader was correct: there is literally not one news story regarding this anywhere in any media we could find despite it being a huge story.
And a little more digging into Moussaoui’s criminal court docket reveals the reason for Moussaoui’s request for transfer to France; namely, he is deathly afraid that should Donald Trump win the Presidential election in November, he will order Moussaoui’s immediate execution.
Moussaoui’s handwritten letter to the court, which you can review here, is set forth in its entirety at the end of this post, but here is the money part of the reasoning:
You Honor, as presinding [sic] and sentencing judge your Court sentenced me at life without parole.
Instead your Honor might concur that there is a possibility if not a probability that if the Ex US President Donald Trump was to be reelected He will sentence me to death by presidential executive order.
A note: as a former U.S. District Court clerk I handled hundreds of handwritten letters to the court from inmates requesting everything from resentencing to some kind of prison amenity and everything in-between, so the fact that the letter is hand-written is not surprising since federal and state inmates rarely have access to computers. Moussaoui continues:
Indeed, I was warn by attorney Charles Freeman and Professor Reza that US law permit the US President to sentence to death any federal prisonneer [sic] deem to be a threat to National security.
Moussaoui then explains that during certain court proceedings he was called a national security threat, which makes him worried that Trump might use that to order his execution. He summarizes and makes his request:
In the meantime there is the real prospect that the Ex President is reelected and therefore…I want to apply to this Court and the US government to be transfer to France to finish my sentence…I could be transfer to France to serve the rest of my life sentence and before the potential inauguration of Ex President Trump…May your Honor and your Court enter an order as soon as your Court find it appropriate and grant me my…request. Zacarias Moussaoui, 05/13/2024.
The court docket does not indicate any action taken by the Judge on this request.
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I was already voting for Trump, you can stop selling him to me!
I was thinking the same thing.
This is a stunt instigated by a Democrat operative.
To what end? To prove that 9/11 terrorists also suffer from TDS?
“Look, we are just like 9/11 terrorists!”
To show Muslims that Democrats are one of them.
Valerie – you can avoid down votes if you have a good and logical idea behind your remark …., I’m really curious as to what it could possibly bw though
What a strange comment. Two things strike me about this: one, Valerie has not, as I am writing this, received a single down vote, and two, what the hell? Do you really self-censor to ensure you please other people? That’s freaking insane. If you are just saying things to get “votes,” then you are not worth reading. Who does that? Have a stance and stand by it. That is far more admirable than being a “gee, will I get an upvote,” finger to the wind phony.
As an example, I hate and loathe and despise everything Bernie Sanders stands for, but I damn sure admire him for his honesty and belief in the commie crap he spouts. I would never vote for him, but at least he’s honest. He doesn’t think about “gee, will I get down-voted on some blog.” Good grief.
Also, all votes disappear after some time, so if you go back to earlier posts, you will find all the comments, sans votes. Please, people, don’t be this guy. Say what you have to say (as long as it’s not advocating violence, illegal actions, or anything else that will get us shut down), but for all that is holy, don’t care one tiny bit about how you are voted. That’s just insane.
I didn’t up or down vote
I was hoping for some reasoning behind the statement.
It’s your decision whether to allow comments that advocate violence or illegal acts, but you can’t get shut down for them. The courts have repeatedly said that “mere advocacy” is always and absolutely protected.
OR…and here me out on this one Hodge. You can be an adult and ignore what Valerie has said.
I know right, mind blow! 🤣🤣
Someone thought this might buy Kamala votes in Michigan. Of coruse, Kamala is the one who liked locking up people of color back in the day. Trump just liked dating models and making money.
What an awesome endorsement for Trump!
Terrorist fears execution of Trump wins
Put it up!
He must be pretty sure Marine Le Pen won’t be president of France.
We all are. Unfortunately she lost.
One juror put American taxpayers on the hook for paying to support this Jihadi, at great expense, for the rest of his natural life…Unforgivable.
Long, long time ago I heard that an execution costs more than a life sentence.. It seems counterintuitive.. I wonder if it is still true.
Not the execution itself, but all the appeals that are required in order to carry it out.
this is true … all the appeals on the tax payers dime ….
and bonus … (speaking as a former correctional officer/sgt)
inmates in prison create jobs
To what degree has the court’s requirement that all issues known to the defendant be raised in the appeal (i.e. intended to reduce serial appeals of each issue rather than raising all issues in one appeal) reduced the various Circuit courts’ docket load?
I don’t know. Biden has really driven up the cost of electricity.
We have people who absolutely oppose capital punishment, they drag the process out.
I think that wasting good air on people who are not salvageable. Resources are always limited, they should be expended where they improve people’s lives, not on murders.
Hostis humanis. Ancient Admiralty Law. Some acts outside normal human law and without doubt as to guilt warrant loss of any expectation of due process and can be immediately executed. For example the nut in Utah who proudly murdered his parents or Gacy.
I’d feel better about the expense if they built a supermax in Death Valley and Moussaoui could spend his days making big rocks into little rocks.
Once a terrorist is no longer of value, they should be sent to seek those virgins.
There is a great deal of misunderstanding. It isn’t 72 Virgins, it is a 72 year old virgin.
The judge should laugh this out of court, of course.
Executive orders and judges are both limited by ehat existing law authorizes them to do — though if ZM has been watching Biden, and the Trump lawfare cases, I can understand his confusion.
He can’t laugh it out of court, because it will never make it into court. Courts receive petitions like this all the time, and they’re stamped “received”, logged in, and then go directly into the circular file. There’s nothing there for the court to consider.
Even if it did make it to court, I would hope that no judge wants to be “the judge” that let the only individual convicted in relation to 9/11 free. That’s not something anyone should want on their resume, regardless of the hatred for Trump.
Do we even have such an agreement with France for them to take their citizen-convicts? (do we need one?)
Yes, I’m sure we do; we have them with many countries, and I see no reason why we would have left France out.
And no, I don’t think we actually need one, if both governments agree to the transfer. As I understand it the agreements merely provide a process for that to happen, without requiring the Secretary of State to call the relevant French minister and work things out from scratch.
But doesn’t he want to be a martyr?
He found out the alternate translation to 72 Virgins and finally realized it didn’t say female virgins, lol. (snark)
Male pigs.
It’s “white raisins,” considered a delicacy. It’s not an alternate translation, the current reading of the Quran may be a corruption of the original (“white raisins”) text. At some point, a sloppy transcription (corruption) of the text of the Quran may have changed the meaning of the phrase, became popular, and then became the standard from that point.
How sure of you are this?
It’s just that a 10-minute dessert seems a pretty lame incentive to use to persuade your followers to go kamikaze.
Allahu Akbar!
Maybe he does, but he’s not genuinely afraid of execution but merely telling the judge he is, so he can be transferred to France, where a left-wing government might decide to release him.
Like the Lockerbie bomber, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi.
I strongly suspect that would not be “might”.
“As an example, I hate and loathe and despise everything Bernie Sanders stands for, but I damn sure admire him for his honesty and belief in the commie crap he spouts”
That’s a joke, right fuzzy?
This man owns at least 3 houses including a house on the lake/ ocean
It’s commie crap for you not for him
How is this request even a thing? SMH
Anything is a thing. It’s a free country and you can write anything to a court. The court doesn’t have to do anything with it.
Remember, during the 0bama administration, every now and then reading breathless reporting on some right-wing idiot site about a Birther lawsuit that had been officially filed with the Supreme Court or some other court, and that meant the court was finally going to consider the arguments and any minute 0bama would be deposed, or at least would be hauled into court to justify his incumbency? Inevitably if you followed it up you’d find that the petition had merely been stamped received and logged in, along with all the other junk petitions, and would never be heard of again. As indeed happened each time.
It’s a really a free country and we all know it
Sorry
Phone hate
It’s really NOT a free Country,
And we all
Know it
It’s not even a fair Country,
Or kind Country, for the most part
There are pockets of good people clearly
But dear Lord, there are so many undeserving pink haired , violent, cowardly anti American people living in the this country, one they hate so much
Getting away with killing old ladies and men…
Raping children,
Girls, women, boys…
Stealing you blind
It’s not the America I grew up in,
And I miss that America
I’m
Not blind that it was heaven on earth, but I could walk to school a mile away, past railroads and
Factories and
Actually make it home, kids could play outside from sunrise to sunset, only interrupting play, or life’s lessons, to eat and use the bathroom. Police walked the streets, you knew their names, and kids dins t get murdered in school by other kids
And no one was cutting off the breasts and penises of children
Yeah, I miss that America
The country is not that bad off. The pink haired wackos you speak of make a very small percentage of the population. All those trans make less than 1%. And for all the Progressives scream they hate Trump they absolutely do not want us to be a country that assassinates presidential candidates. Even AOC seemed genuinely pissed at the Secret Service director for almost getting Trump killed and not seeming to care.
No, that’s not a thing.
If this Freeman person really told him that, he should be brought up before the bar for malpractice. Of course he’d deny he ever told him that.
Even if his fear were genuine and there were a real prospect of it happening, the judge has nothing to do with it. He should write to the Secretary of State and to the French authorities. They’re the ones that would have to initiate such a transfer and agree to it, and if they did I don’t think the judge would even be consulted, any more than he’s consulted when the Bureau of Prisons decides to transfer him from one prison to another.
I hope he does believe it, and I hope he is actually in fear. That way, when Trump is reelected, Moussaoui can stew in his own misapprehensions about how our system works, causing him great stress, and hopefully shortening his life to reduce his burden on the taxpayer.
I have a shovel, some rope and land. Send him my way.
let him get on a plane back to france and let it crash into the fn ocean
Well, someone is feeling forgotten.
It was almost 20 years ago that this pos was convicted and sentenced to life in a Colorado prison. If DJT wanted to “execute” him, why didn’t he order it so during his first term as president? Furthermore, I’m not sure a president has the authority to do such a thing. Sure he can pardon or commute a person’s sentence, but I don’t see either happening should DJT become president again.
It is much better that we forget this creep exists.
The president has no such power. But you are correct that if he had such a power, and was inclined to use it, this guy would already be dead.
SophieA, THANK YOU! It’s amazing that it took so long for anyone – even the great Millhouse – to point out that PRESIDENT TRUMP had FOUR YEARS to send the scum to that great pigsty underground!! My FIRST thought to this ridiculous article was “He didn’t do it the FIRST time so what has changed”? Now, IF PRESIDENT TRUMP actually would have that POWER then he would be absolutely justified to use it in ANY case involving the 9/11 terrorists! MAYBE that’s why they wanted to get PRESIDENT TRUMP in PRISON on a FEDERAL charge so Joe could just “rid” the DEMOcrats of their greatest fear!
As much as I’d love to see this subhuman trash removed from existence, there is only one Party that has shown any tendency to issue lawless executive orders—like defying the SCOTUS decision against student loan forgiveness then bragging about it. Only one Party that has turned law enforcement into Stasi—e.g., J6 defendants are still rotting in pre-trial detention without bail. Hint: It’s not the Republican Party. But given the Democrat regime’s new tendency to insult Israel and suck up to Muslim voters, it may offer a chance for Moussaoui to get pardoned if that means a few more Democrat votes in places like Little Somalia in Minnesota, or Dearbornistan in Michigan.
Whew! at least he didn’t ask to come to Canada where the ‘Human Rights Tribunal’ would have given him $10 million for having had his ‘rights’ violated while he was in Gitmo.
Remember Khadr who killed an American soldier and a Canadian lawyer worked hard to get him back to Canada? … it took a few years, but now Khadr is a multi-millionaire and I guess so is his lawyer.
It will be easier for this one in France, as it is fully Islamized and they will fall over backwards to set him free.
2 ttucker99 in reply to Gonzotx
You live in a different America than I
Release him from SuperMax. Right out the front gate in Florence, Colorado,
No transportation available. Just boots on the ground,
And publicize the exact day and time about one week prior.
So, just what is he complaining about? I thought martyrdom was a objective of his cause?
Is garrote a French word? Give him a Cuban bowtie, as well.
The DEMOcrats seem to use their “power” to eliminate those who are THREATS to their “democrazy”! Can anyone imagine the MAGNITUDE of ODDS that would cover the number of people who either have evidence or involvement in huge issues involving the DEMOcrats that suddenly DIE in mysterious, broken camera ways??? OR just through GROSS INCOMPETENCE while SUPPOSEDLY GUARDING PRESIDENT TRUMP?