Terror suspect moved to Washington for trial

ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- Zacarias Moussaoui, the first man indicted in the Sept. 11 attacks, briefly appeared Wednesday in the suburban Washington courthouse where he will be face trial.

Sporting a full beard and wearing a brown shirt and khaki pants, Moussaoui sat between his attorneys as the six charges accusing him of conspiring to murder thousands were read by U.S. Magistrate Thomas Jones. Moussaoui did not say a word during the appearance.

Moussaoui was transported amid tight security from New York, where he had been held since shortly after the Sept. 11 attack, to the U.S. District Courthouse in Alexandria, Va., a short distance from the site where one jetliner crashed into the Pentagon.

About a dozen U.S. marshals were in the courtroom, including two in plainclothes who escorted Moussaoui to a table to join his lawyers for the brief appearance. Some armed marshals, wearing bulletproof vests, guarded the courthouse.

Moussaoui, 33, is charged with conspiring to commit acts of terrorism, aircraft piracy, destruction of aircraft, use of weapons of mass destruction, murder of U.S. employees and destruction of U.S. property. Four of the charges could result in the death penalty.