Prosecutor Robert Spencer told jurors he plans to play tapes of calls that victims placed to their families before they died that day and that 45 survivors and victims’ families will testify about their grief. The jury on Monday agreed with prosecutors that his lies after his August 2001 arrest prevented the government from stopping the 9/11 attacks and ruled he is eligible for the death penalty. The former mayor, whose steady leadership during New York’s darkest hours earned him worldwide praise, was the government’s leadoff witness in the second phase of Moussaoui’s death sentencing trial. “We all have a hole in our hearts,” D’Allara said, “much bigger than the hole in the skyline of Manhattan.” “He inspired the city and helped us cope.”ĭan D’Allara said he could feel his dead twin brother, John, a New York policeman, sitting on his shoulder during the trial. “Certainly Giuliani has a place in the day,” said Diane DeCarlo, whose brother, Michael Dowd, worked at Cantor Fitzgerald. The family members said Giuliani’s testimony was compelling. marshals were brought into the courtroom to separate “America’s Mayor” from the al Qaeda thug when Giuliani walked by him to get to the witness stand. Giuliani avoided making eye contact with the smirking conspirator.Įxtra U.S. He sometimes wrote notes and occasionally looked bored as Giuliani described the scenes of utter devastation in lower Manhattan.Īt one point, with several families of the victims, including widows of New York firefighters, looking on, Moussaoui sang “Burn in the U.S.A.” to the tune of Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the U.S.A.” He launched into the sick song while being led from the courtroom during a break. Moussaoui, 37, the French al Qaeda terrorist who pleaded guilty to being part of the 9/11 conspiracy, sat slouched in his chair, occasionally smiling, as his sentencing hearing entered its final phase. “This was bigger than anything we had ever encountered before,” Giuliani said of the attacks. He also recalled speaking to several firefighters, several of whom were his friends, shortly before they met their deaths.
The former mayor described for the jury his own harrowing experience of trying to marshal New York City’s response as he rushed from building to building seeking safety while the Twin Towers crumbled. Speaking in calm and intimate tones, Giuliani recalled for the hushed courtroom how he saw body parts on the streets, smelled burning flesh in the air, and watched two people holding hands as they jumped out of the burning World Trade Center.
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– Rudy Giuliani held the death-sentencing trial of Zacarias Moussaoui spellbound yesterday as he described in gripping, personal detail the horrors of the 9/11 attacks, calling it “the worst experience of my life.”
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