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03/28/2006:

"Moussaoui Says He and Reid Planned to Attack the White House"

March 27 (Bloomberg) -- Zacarias Moussaoui testified that he and would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid planned to hijack a jetliner and fly it into the White House on the day of the Sept. 11 attacks.

``Before your arrest, were you scheduled to be a pilot in an operation run on Sept. 11, 2001?'' defense lawyer Gerald Zerkin asked Moussaoui at his sentencing trial in Alexandria, Virginia.

``Yes, I was supposed to pilot a plane to hit the White House,'' Moussaoui said. He also said, ``I knew the towers would be hit,'' referring to the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York.

Moussaoui said he knew about the plot when he was arrested a month before the attacks and lied to FBI agents because he wanted the mission to go forward. Moussaoui, 37, pleaded guilty last April to conspiracy charges linked to the Sept. 11 attacks. He is the only person charged in the U.S. in connection with the attacks.
bloomberg.com

This stinks of somethin'.