Suspect Denied Access to Airline Security Plans
VIRGINIA
A judge in Alexandria has denied Zacarias Moussaoui access to airline security plans, saying the accused Sept. 11 conspirator could contact future hijackers despite his strict confinement.
U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema said his lawyers can see the information but cannot share it with him.
The order came as Moussaoui’s lawyers said the defendant told Dr. Raymond Patterson, his court-appointed psychiatrist, that the lawyers were conspiring to kill him to keep him from revealing an undisclosed secret. Patterson has concluded that Moussaoui was mentally fit when he asked to represent himself.
Moussaoui, who was in custody for immigration violations on Sept. 11, might have been the 20th suicide hijacker if he had not been arrested last August when officials at a Minnesota flight school became suspicious, according to the charges against him.
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