Zacarias Moussaoui, a French citizen of Moroccan descent, has been sentenced to life in prison in the United States. Moussaoui claims he was supposed to have been the twentieth hijacker, but failed to join the 19 others on September 11th because he had been arrested shortly before the operation. In this report by Christian Rathner, Zacarias Moussaoui's mother, Aisha El Wafi, comments on the life of her son and the path he took. Prominent Muslim figures speak about the relationship between Islam and violence. Among them are Hassan Nazrallah, Secretary-General of the Hezbollah in Beirut, Mohamed Mahdi Akef, head of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, and Sheikh Adnan Ibrahim, Imam of the Shura Mosque in Vienna.

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