Moussaoui to “speak out” at sentencing this morning

I was worried that he might not have another opportunity to grandstand and wish death on us all before being sent away to Supermax. Thankfully, it seems my fears were misplaced.

Standby for the embarrassing conclusion to this pathetic spectacle.

Update: He broke down in sobs and begged Brinkema to impose the death sentence, lest the glories of martyrdom be denied him.

No, just kidding. He did his usual little turn on the catwalk.

“God save Osama bin Laden — you will never get him,” Moussaoui declared moments after walking into the courtroom flashing a victory sign.

“You have branded me as a terrorist or a criminal or whatever,” he said. “Look at yourselves. I fight for my belief.” He spoke for less than five minutes; the judge told him he could not use his sentencing to make a political speech.

Upon leaving the courtroom, he turned to the custodian from the Supermax facility and said, “Sooo … what’s for dinner?”

J/k again. I hope.

Update: Brinkema tells him “you’ll die with a whimper.” Just like the rest of us.

Update: That story last night about France possibly demanding that he serve out his sentence back home? Not a rumor:

France and the United States signed two agreements in the 1980s about the transfer of convicts and Moussaoui’s mother Aisha el Wafi and his lawyer have asked that the Frenchman be allowed to serve his sentence in his home country.

“A possible demand for transferring Zacarias Moussaoui could be looked at within this framework,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Jean-Baptiste Mattei said at an electronic press briefing.

Update: NRO didn’t get the memo about the Great American Martyrdom Denial of ’06 either.

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