9/11 terrorist on hunger strike
Zacarias Moussaoui tells Denver judge he is victim of religious persecution by FBI
The reputed 20th hijacker in the 9/11 terror attacks on New York City and Washington recently sent three letters to a Denver federal magistrate judge declaring he’s on a hunger strike because of religious persecution by the FBI as part of a conspiracy to hide U.S. and Saudi Arabian ties to the terror attacks.
Zacarias Moussaoui sent the letters this week from his highsecurity cell at Administrative Maximum U.S. Penitentiary in Florence to U.S. Magistrate Judge Michael Hegarty at Denver U.S. District Court, claiming he started the hunger strike June 22.
Moussaoui, a French citizen, began each of his handwritten letters with the proclamation “In the name of Allah.”
Beneath his name on each letter he also referred to himself as the “so-called 20th terrorist.” The letters, written July 10, were filed in federal court Thursday.
Moussaoui, who is serving six life prison sentences, confessed he was part of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist plot and had been planning to fly a fifth plane into the White House. He was arrested Aug. 16, 2001, less than a month before the attacks, on a minor immigration charge. FBI agents questioned him about why he was taking lessons on how to fly a jumbo jet.
The terrorist is one of 400 federal inmates — including “Unabomber” Theodore J. Kaczynski and 1993 World Trade center bomber Ramzi Ahmed Yousef — held in the highest security prison in the federal system, often called the “Alcatraz of the Rockies.”
In his letters to the judge, Moussaoui wrote that prison officials took away a large clock from his H cellblock to prevent the devout Muslim from praying five times a day. Denying him his right to pray in a timely manner amounted to religious “torture.”
Moussaoui wrote that the FBI also instigated a special restriction only against him by limiting his purchases to $10, preventing him from buying a watch and proper winter clothing so he could go outside for recreation.
The sanction was intended to “break me psychologically,” one of the letters says. Federal authorities have also denied him a lawyer, he said.
CIA, FBI, U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Bureau of Prisons officials are conspiring to cover up a conspiracy between U.S. agents from the FBI and CIA with the Saudi Arabian royal family, (Osama) Bin Laden, former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein and a long list of terrorists connected to the 9/11 terror attacks, Moussaoui wrote. He does not explain the “collusion” in the letters.