i tend to think sometimes that people richly deserve death. but while the right-wing blogs go mad for moussaoui, i just want to say that he's not exactly the best witness against himself. some al qaeda types testified that m was considered too unstable and unreliable to have any active participation in an important operation. somehow, having listened to his statements through the trial, i find this plausible. meanwhile as the latimes points out, the administration refuses even to charge, much less try, the people who actually planned the operation.