Zacarias Moussaoui, who is serving a life sentence for participating in the 9/11 attacks, has gone on the record with shocking allegations against the Saudi royal family.
Moussaoui, who is known as the “20th hijacker,” has stated that Saudi prince Turki Al Faisal Al Saud met with him to provide him funding and assist in the attacks on the World Trade center. In a handwritten court document, Moussaioui said, “I am ready to testify about all the above and more in your court in an Open Hearing that I request.”
The Saudi government has denied any involvement in the 9/11 attacks, and Moussaioui is said to be suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, making his claims potentially unactionable. He was convicted after pleading guilty in 2005 to conspiring with the hijackers to bomb World Trade, despite the fact that Usama Bin Laden explicitly denied that he was involved.
Moussaioui claims to have given a deposition to lawyers that are representing a civil suit from insurance companies and 9/11 victims against the government of Saudi Arabia for their alleged role in the attacks.
“I want to testify against financial institutions such as Arab Bank , Saudi American Bank, the National Commercial Bank of Saudi Arabia” and several individuals, Moussaoui wrote in a note to the New York court in that case, “for their support and financing of Usama bin Laden and Al Qaeda from the time of the Eastern Africa embassy bombing, U.S.S. Cole bombing and 9/11,” reported Forbes magazine.
Moussaioui is unlikely to be given the chance to testify about his claims as there are no current open trials that his statement would have any relevance to. “Even if he somehow got to the point where he could testify, there would be a credibility issue,” said Carl Tobias, a professor at the University of Richmond School of Law to the Daily Mail. “Would his testimony be valuable? That’s doubtful.”
Moussaioui is serving a life sentence in a maximum security prison.
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