Too little, too late: Man, Zacarias Moussaoui must be pissed. A tape purported to be a recording of Osama bin Laden has surfaced on which a disembodied voice identified as bin Laden says Moussaoui had nothing to do with the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Unfortunately, that info comes just weeks after Zack dodged the death penalty and was sent up the river to the Big House for life.
Of course, having the most-wanted man in the world as a witness for the defense probably wouldn’t have swayed the jury, but it certainly would have added to the circus atmosphere that characterized Moussaoui’s year-and-a-half trial, which oscillated between the insane and the ridiculous. Suffice it to say, however, that bin Laden’s belated benignancy is no “Get Out of Jail Free” card for the hapless Moussaoui.
The old comic strip “Li’l Abner” has a memorable character named Joe Btfsplk, a harmless fellow who was jinxed, wandering the earth with a perpetual black cloud over his head. Seems to me that Zacharias Moussaoui is the Joe Btfsplk of al Qaeda — even after being sentenced to life in prison, his luck just keeps getting worse.
