Is Zacarias Moussaoui really the 20th hijacker?
The feds seem to think so. Moussaoui has been charged in U.S. District Court with conspiring to participate in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Prosecutors say he was training to be one of the hijackers at the time of his arrest. If convicted, he will likely face execution — which if he’s really so into martyrdom, shouldn’t bug him too much. The so-called 20th hijacker was arrested in August after employees at the Minnesota flight school he was attending became suspicious and contacted the FBI. Apparently, he paid the school’s $6,300 tuition in cash and requested a jumbo jet simulator even though he wasn’t skilled as a pilot. Moussaoui was supposedly evasive when asked about his background. (Repeatedly addressing his instructor as “Mr. Infidel Heathen Hellbound Pig-Dog” probably didn’t help either.) The feds knew from French officials that he was a militant Muslim with terrorist pals, but had no evidence that he himself was a terrorist until after Sept. 11. Charges were filed when inve
