FBI Agent Admits Hints Of 9/11 At Moussaoui Trial
Zacarias Moussaoui's lawyers are trying to suggest that the FBI knew more about al Qaida's plans than Moussaoui did.

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3/7/2006

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia (AP) -- In cross-examination, a defense lawyer got FBI agent Michael Anticev to admit that the FBI was aware years before Nine-Eleven that al Qaida planned to slam planes into prominent buildings.

Earlier, Anticev read excerpts from an al Qaida training manual on how to deceive investigators in an interrogation.

Prosecutors say if the confessed al Qaida member had told investigators the truth, Nine-Eleven would have been prevented.

Prosecutors are pushing for a death penalty for the man who pleaded guilty to conspiring with al Qaida to hijack planes and commit other crimes.

Meanwhile Moussaoui's mother, Aicha el-Wafi, is talking about her strained relationship with her son. In Moussaoui's on-again, off-again association with his lawyers, el-Wafi says Moussaoui once asked his mother not to talk to the defense team. When she did to try to help him, he got mad at her.

Moussaoui's mother also suggests she's concerned about her son's demeanor, saying he appears to be someone else. She says she thinks her son is on medication to calm him.