THE TENSION: Ground Zero: Moussaoui Trial, Wed. 12 Apr.

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This courtroom drawing shows avowed Al-Qaeda agent Zacarias Moussaoui testifying in Federal Court, in Alexandria, VA, in March 2006. US prosecutors aired a cockpit audio tape of a life-and-death passenger revolt on a doomed September 11 jet, in a compelling climax to their case for the execution of Moussaoui(AFP/File/Art Lein)

Government evidence from the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui released by the U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Virginia shows a satellite photograph of the World Trade Center area in New York City before the attacks of September 11, 2001 (L) and after the attacks (R). The jury deciding whether Moussaoui should die heard dramatic cockpit recording on April 12, 2006 of passengers struggling to thwart hijackers in the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001. (U.S. District Court/Handout/Reuters)

In this image released by the U.S. District Court, a government exhibit shows a photograph, introduced at the sentencing trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, of the debris found at the scene of United Airlines Flight 93 which crashed in Somerset County, Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001. The jury deciding whether Moussaoui should die heard dramatic cockpit recording on April 12, 2006 of passengers struggling to thwart hijackers in the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001. REUTERS/U.S. District Court/Handout

A box cutter found in a car that was left at Washington Dulles International Airport by September 11, 2001 hijackers is shown as evidence in the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui in Arlington, Virginia, April 12, 2006. (Handout/Reuters)

In this image released by the U.S. District Court, a government exhibit shows a photo of an airplane part found at the scene in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, where United Air Lines Flight 93 crashed on Sept. 11, 2001, that was introduced at the sentencing trial of admitted terrorist conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui. (AP Photo/U.S. District Court)

In this undated image released by the U.S. District Court, a government exhibit shows a photograph, introduced at the sentencing trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. The jury deciding whether Moussaoui should die heard dramatic cockpit recording on April 12, 2006 of passengers struggling to thwart hijackers in the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001. REUTERS/U.S. District Court/Handout

The 'Tribute in Light' memorial consisting of two shafts of light to represent the World Trade Center Twin Towers is lit in New York on the six month anniversary of the terrorist attack that destroyed the towers. Prosecutors laid out gruesome evidence and tales of heartbreak, as they metaphorically led jurors into the skin-melting flames of the Pentagon, and aboard a hijacked jet on September 11, 2001(AFP/File/Stan Honda)

A knife attached to a lanyard is shown as evidence in the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui in Arlington, Virginia, April 12, 2006. (Handout/Reuters)

In this image released by the U.S. District Court, a government exhibit shows a photo of the cockpit voice recorder found at the scene in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, where Flight 93 crashed on Sept. 11, 2001, that was introduced at the sentencing trial of admitted terrorist conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui. (AP Photo/U.S. District Court)

In this image released by the U.S. District Court, a government exhibit shows a photo of the flight data recorder found at the scene in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, where Flight 93 crashed on Sept. 11, 2001, that was introduced at the sentencing trial of admitted terrorist conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui. (AP Photo/U.S. District Court)

This photograph introduced in the trial of confessed Al-Qaeda conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui shows an airplane part found at the scene in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, where United Airlines Flight 93 crashed on 11 September 2001. US prosecutors aired a cockpit audio tape of a life-and-death passenger revolt on a doomed September 11 jet, in a compelling climax to their case for the execution of Moussaoui(AFP/HO)

In this image released by the U.S. District Court, a government exhibit shows a photo of an airplane part found in a crater at the scene in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, where United Air Lines Flight 93 crashed on Sept. 11, 2001, that was introduced at the sentencing trial of admitted terrorist conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui. (AP Photo/U.S. District Court)

COMMENTLINE
Presented in this post, some images seen and transcripts of the sounds heard by the jury today in the Moussaoui trial as the government rested its case.

NEWSLINE
"Let's roll."

NEWSBYTES
Flight 93 Recording Played at Moussaoui Trial
(www.washingtonpost.com) -- The jury in the death penalty trial of Zacarias Moussaoui today heard the gruesome sounds of Sept.11 hijackers assaulting the crew of United Airlines Flight 93, followed by a life-or-death revolt by passengers as they attacked the cockpit and tried to wrest control of the plane.

Transcript of Flight 93 Voice Recorder
Associated Press

United Airlines Flight #93 Cockpit Voice Recorder Transcript (.pdf)
From www.findlaw.com.

Prosecuters play Moussaoui case tape
(www.Aljazeera.Net) -- Federal prosecuters on Wednesday played the tapes showing the final minutes of the doomed United Air Lines Flight 93 on September 11, 2001 to the jury trying Zacharias Moussaoui.

Moussaoui Jury Hears Flight 93 Recording
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) -- Jurors in the Zacarias Moussaoui trial listened Wednesday to a recording of terrified shouts and cries in the cockpit as desperate passengers twice charged panicked hijackers during the final half hour of doomed United Flight 93 on Sept. 11, 2001.

Jury transfixed by tape of 9/11 plane
ALEXANDRIA, Virginia (Reuters) -- In the last minutes before United Flight 93 crashed into a Pennsylvania field on September 11, a passenger urged others to help storm the cockpit and take on the hijackers because "if we don't we die," a jury heard on Wednesday.

Desperate last moments of hijacked jet cap Moussaoui prosecution
ALEXANDRIA, United States (AFP) -- US prosecutors aired a cockpit audio tape of a life-and-death passenger revolt on a doomed September 11 jet, in a compelling climax to their case for the execution of Al-Qaeda conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui.

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