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Moussaoui's Dream Comes Back to Haunt Him NewsMax.com Wires ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- In his sleep, Zacarias Moussaoui dreamed about piloting a plane and crashing it into the White House. The dream was important enough that he told his supreme commander, Osama bin Laden, all about it. That dream has taken on a significant role in Moussaoui's death-penalty trial. Prosecutors say Moussaoui took flight training to try to make his dream of piloting an aircraft in a terrorist attack become reality. The defense argues it was the fanciful musings of a deranged mind. An Islamic radical testified Wednesday that Moussaoui told him about the dream during a visit Moussaoui made to Malaysia in 2000. The radical, a top official in an al-Qaida affiliate group called Jemaah Islamiyah, also said during a November 2002 deposition that was played Wednesday for the jury at Moussaoui's death-penalty trial that Moussaoui said he had shared his dream with bin Laden. The trial continues Thursday with testimony expected about Moussaoui's efforts to obtain flight training in the United States. Moussaoui does not dispute the dream. When Moussaoui pleaded guilty in April to conspiring with al-Qaida to hijack aircraft and other crimes, he said bin Laden told him, "Remember your dream." Story Continues Below
But for Moussaoui, the dream is also now a key to his defense. He says that his flight training and efforts to become a pilot have nothing to do with the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks for which he faces a possible death sentence. Instead, he says he was training for a future attack separate from 9/11. Moussaoui's lawyers go even further, arguing that Moussaoui was far too unstable for his dreams to ever get off the ground. They elicited testimony Wednesday that top officials in Jemaah Islamiyah considered Moussaoui "cuckoo" and that he was a disaster as a student pilot at a Norman, Okla., flight school. To obtain a death sentence, prosecutors must directly link Moussaoui to the deaths on 9/11. They argue that Moussaoui could have prevented the attacks if he had not lied to investigators about his al-Qaida membership and his plans for a terrorist attack when he was arrested in August 2001 on immigration violations.
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