A US appeals court confirmed today a life sentence handed down on Zacarias Moussoui, a French national, for complicity in the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. The ruling upheld a sentence passed by a federal court in Virginia in May 2006 after Moussoui pleaded guilty to conspiracy in the hijackings of the airliners used in the attacks in New York and Washington.
Moussoui, who later recanted his testimony only to claim he was part of another Al-Qaeda plot, is serving a life sentence at a maximum security prison in Colorado.
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