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'Please, jail my son in France'
04/05/2006 22:30 - (SA)
Paris - The mother of Zacarias Moussaoui has asked French authorities to request that the Al-Qaeda plotter, sentenced to life in prison by a United States jury, serve his time in a French prison.
Lawyer Patrick Baudouin said Moussaoui's mother, Aisha el-Wafi, had asked French officials "to intervene with the American authorities to ask that Zacarias Moussaoui serve out his term in a French prison".
After the sentence was announced against her son on Wednesday, Wafi said: "It's the worst thing that could happen to a mother."
She said her son "was convicted for what he said, not what he did".
A US jury ruled that the 37-year-old Frenchman, of Moroccan descent, should be jailed for life without parole - and rejected the death penalty - for his role in the September 11 attacks on the US.
Once the judge in the case formally pronounces this sentence on Thursday, Moussaoui is expected to be sent to a "Supermax" security prison in the Colorado town of Florence, dubbed the "Alcatraz of the Rockies".
The complex houses 399 other prisoners, including some allied to Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda.
British "shoe bomber" Richard Reid is incarcerated there, as is blind Egyptian Muslim cleric Omar Abdel-Rahman, jailed for conspiracy after the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Centre, and Ramzi Youssef, also implicated in the 1993 plot.
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