Moussaoui says he was supposed to hit White House on 9/11

In a shocking twist, Zacarius Moussaoui testified today that he and Richard Reid (the "shoe bomber") were supposed to hijack a fifth airplane on 9/11 and crash it into the White House. [CNN] The admission contradicts much of what Moussaoui has said during the course of the trial, which has been marked by the dozens of bizarre hand-written legal motions he has submitted, often referring to the federal judge as "Death Judge," and to himself as "Slave to Allah."

For example, in the document shown below, "Motion by Defendant to Force Ashcroft to Show His Ultimate Fantasie Theory or to Through Out Ahscroft Case," submitted on April 22, 2003, Moussaoui wrote that "Nothing in the indictment suggest even remotely the existence of a 5th Plane stricking the Dark House (Are we still talking about 9/11)." [FindLaw]



"Moussaoui: White House was my 9/11 target" [CNN]
PDF: "Motion by Defendant to Force Ashcroft to Show His Ultimate Fantasie Theory or to Through Out Ahscroft Case" (Apr. 22, 2003) [FindLaw]
Index of documents from the Moussaoui trial [FindLaw]