Mr. Moussaoui is charged in a six-count federal indictment in Virginia with conspiracies to commit acts of terrorism, aircraft piracy and destruction of aircraft, and to use weapons of mass destruction, murder United States employees and destroy property.
The indictment charged Mr. Moussaoui with conspiracy to commit acts of terrorism; to commit aircraft piracy; to destroy aircraft; to use airplanes as weapons of mass destruction; to murder government employees; and to destroy property.
Mr. Moussaoui, bearded and wearing a green jumpsuit with "prisoner" on his back, said today that he was prepared to plead guilty to the four charges in his indictment that carried the death penalty: conspiracy to commit acts of terrorist, to commit aircraft piracy, to destroy aircraft and to use weapons of mass destruction.
He was convicted of conspiracy to commit acts of terrorism, conspiracy to commit aircraft piracy and conspiracy to destroy aircraft.
These countries, moreover, gave active support to the Portuguese pretender, António, prior of Crato (mid Portugal), and their privateers committed continual acts of piracy against Spanish trade in the Americas.
What does it mean to commit an act of piracy?
Section 69 (1) of the Kenyan penal code reads, "Any person who, in territorial waters or upon the high seas, commits any act of piracy jure gentium is guilty of the offence of piracy".
A Russian court on Thursday ordered that 22 members of the Greenpeace team that protested Arctic drilling by trying to scale a state-run oil rig may spend up to two months in detention in a Murmansk jail, while investigators decide whether to charge them with committing an act of piracy.
He had been serving as the Political Counselor in Seoul in the mid-1970s and was deeply concerned that forces under the salty Admiral Morgan had committed "an act of piracy" when they attacked North Korean patrol boats on the high seas, which ended up killing 30 North Korean fishermen.
If we find you to be committing any more criminal acts of piracy then we will have to press charges against you, as representatives of the major record companies of America.
