Moussaoui Denies Sept. 11 Role

June 13, 2002

By Larry Margasak, Associated Press Writer

ALEXANDRIA, Va. –– Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person indicted as a Sept. 11 conspirator, denied in court Thursday that he played any role in the attacks against the World Trade Center.

Moussaoui told a federal judge that the government "knew I was not in contact with these people who were to have done the hijacking."

Moussaoui appeared before U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema, where he argued successfully to be allowed to represent himself in a trial later this year.

Brinkema, however, asked Moussaoui's current court-appointed lawyers to remain in the case even though they pleaded for her to dismiss them. Moussaoui has contended his lawyers are part of a conspiracy to kill him.
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