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Moussaoui & Richard Reid
CNN.com – Moussaoui: White House was my 9/11 target – Mar 27, 2006
Al Qaeda conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui told a stunned courtroom Monday that he and would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid were supposed to hijack a fifth plane on September 11, 2001, and crash it into the White House.
I haven’t really followed this story. But what I’ve read about Moussaoui leads me not to believe that he’s a co-conspirator in 9/11, but instead to believe that he’s one of a very special set of yahoo that thrives on wildly bone-headed claims that couldn’t possibly be true. I met someone like this while I was deck-handing; the most wonderful lies would fall out of his head every time he opened his mouth. He was going to law school. He’d just beaten a murder conviction. He’d won a million dollars in the lottery, but frittered it away on cars and women. He was Buzz Aldrin’s son. He was Buzz Aldrin. His blood-type was AspecialBpositive. That sort of thing.
Richard Reid, by all accounts, is clearly a yahoo of the highest order. While the fact that Reid and Moussaoui are buddies doesn’t prove Moussaoui is also a yahoo, it’s as near as dammit.
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