In the months leading UP to september 11, Zacarias Moussaoui was trying desperately to learn how to fly. He went to flight school in Norman, Okla., and when instructors there decided he had almost no aptitude for handling a light plane, he moved on to Minnesota seeking practice time on a flight simulator for a Boeing 747. After he was busted on immigration charges, French authorities told the FBI that Moussaoui was a known Islamic militant. The FBI says it later found evidence that Moussaoui got $14,000 in cash from a key operative of the Qaeda cell in Hamburg, Germany, that organized the 9-11 attacks. And when he saw the ruins of the World Trade Center from the air as he was being flown back to New York by federal agents after the attacks, Moussaoui allegedly yelled, "F--k America! F--k you, America!" in jubilation.
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