A Fifth Plane?????
I haven't been paying much attention to the Moussaoui trial, but today he revealed that he was supposed to hijack a fifth plane with the shoe bomber. Put them all together and it's a greatest hits collection of 21st century terrorists!
It's strange to read this. Why would this guy tell the truth? What does he have to gain? He's either getting executed (and presumably will attain 70 virgins in heaven -- although he may not be eligible seeing as he got caught and didn't actually kill any infidels) or going to prison for life, where I predict that within two weeks somebody's gonna pull a Jeffrey Dahmer on him in the shower room.
The payoff for truth-telling to the enemy appears to be miniscule. Conspiracy theories anyone?
posted by Matt Stewart @ 11:50 AM
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Maybe he's still trying to send messages to al Queda? Maybe he's just crazy?
Conspiracy theory #1: Republicans got to him so he would confess about a fifth plane, thus allowing them to say how important immigration reform is because it saved hundreds of lives by arresting him on immigration charges before he could carry out his plan.
but what's Moussaoui's motive for helping the Republicans? wouldn't he want to screw them as hard as possible? unless they've got something on him that he cares about, but it's hard to see him caring about anything more than Allah and terrorism.
Republicans promise to kill him quickly, avoiding years of prison time during appeals, speeding him on his way to virgins galore.
I dunno, I think Moussaoui could get himself killed in a jiff if he so desired...just make a run for it out of the jailhouse, attack an infidel prison guard, etc...
the most likely explanation has to be spreading terror -- which is, after all, his chosen profession. thinking about a fifth plane does creep me out.
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