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Us says moussaoui targets whitehouse Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=066C211A-CC8B-4589-95234FB3884FFC19 http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=066C211A-CC8B-4589-95234FB3884FFC19 US: Moussaoui Part of Plot to Hijack Airplane, Target White House VOA News 09 Aug 2003, 06:34 UTC The U.S. government says accused September 11 co-conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui was part of a team of al-Qaida operatives who intended to fly an airplane into the White House. Federal court documents released in Washington Friday contain that allegation, and raise the possibility that there were other would-be hijackers. The documents include a transcript of a closed hearing last January in which Assistant U.S. Attorney Kenneth Karas alleged that Mr. Moussaoui had accomplices in a plan to hijack a fifth airliner. It is not clear whether the attack was to have taken place on September 11, 2001 - the day terrorists commandeered four passenger jets and used three of them to bomb the Pentagon and New York's World Trade Center. Mr. Moussaoui is accused of conspiring with the September 11 hijackers to wage a terror war against the United States. The government has said it will seek the death penalty. Mr. Moussaoui acknowledges belonging to al-Qaida, but denies any role in the conspiracy. At the January hearing, prosecutor Karas said the evidence is clear that Mr. Moussaoui knew of the plot and was keenly aware of his own mission to crash an airplane into the White House. The French citizen arrived in the United States in February 2001 and took pilot training in Oklahoma and Minnesota. Also Friday, a U.S. District Judge in suburban Washington Leonie Brinkema said the Federal Bureau of Investigation has intercepted several recent attempts by Mr. Moussaoui to communicate with convicted shoe bomber Richard Reid. She said government agents have seized at least one letter to Reid, who is in prison in Colorado for trying to blow up an airliner with explosives hidden in his shoes. The judge made the comments in a two-page order denying Mr. Moussaoui access to FBI reports supporting the assertion that he was trying to pass coded messages to Reid. Some information for this report provided by AP.

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