Jurors Weep, Moussaoui Smiles

Filed under:War on Terror — posted by 3wire on 4/7/2006 @ 12:23 am

From: Yahoo

“Prosecutor Rob Spencer braced jurors for the painful testimony they were going to hear over the next few weeks. The voices of the victims of the attacks and their anguished families should be all jurors need to hear to conclude that Moussaoui should die for his crimes, Spencer said.

Spencer described one call from a woman on the 83rd floor of the second tower to fall. “The floor is completely engulfed,” she said. “We’re on the floor and we can’t breathe…. I don’t see any more air. … I’m going to die, aren’t I?” The tape apparently will be played later.

Prosecutors also will play the cockpit recordings from United Flight 93, which crashed into a Pennsylvania field on Sept. 11, after passengers fought back against the hijackers. The tape has never been heard publicly.

“You cannot understand the magnitude of that day unless you hear it from the victims themselves,” Spencer said. Moussaoui smiled several times when the prosecution mentioned his enthusiasm for the attacks.”

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