According to this AP report (via Guardian):
In his sleep, a dream formed in the mind of confessed al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui: pilot a plane and crash it into the White House. The dream was important enough that he told his supreme commander, Osama bin Laden, all about it.
And here comes the punchline:
That dream has taken on a significant role in Moussaoui's death-penalty trial. Prosecutors say Moussaoui took flight training to try to make his dream of piloting an aircraft in a terrorist attack become reality. The defense argues it was the fanciful musings of a deranged mind.
An interesting legal argument that, "deranged mind". According to it, no member of al-Qaida could be put on trial.
Taken another logical step further, this premise may lead to a pretty interesting conclusions. Like, for example, make redundant the trials in case of possible Al-Qaida member capture. Just...
Nah, better not to go there.
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