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No verdict in Moussaoui trial

Jurors in the Zacarias Moussaoui trial went home on Monday without reaching a verdict on whether Al Qaeda plotter will be put to death or jailed for life over September 11.

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ALEXANDRIA (Virginia): Jurors in the Zacarias Moussaoui trial went home on Monday without reaching a verdict on whether Al Qaeda plotter will be put to death or jailed for life over September 11.
 
The nine men and three women were hunkered down in the small seventh-floor room in the courthouse outside Washington all day.
 
Their deliberations have now gone on for more than 28 hours.
 
If they cannot unanimously agree the Frenchman should be executed, he will spend the rest of his life in prison, without possibility of release.
 
Moussaoui, 37, is the only man tried in the United States in connection with the 2001 terror strikes using hijacked planes as missiles against United States landmarks and killing nearly 3,000 people.
 
Prosecutors contend his "lethal lies" while in jail in August 2001, after his arrest at a Minnesota flight simulator school, allowed his Al Qaeda "brothers" to carry out the world's most deadly terror strike.
 
The defense team, with which Moussaoui has refused to cooperate, contends he is a caricature of a terrorist, was rejected by the "real" Al Qaeda plotters and exaggerated his role in the terror group.
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