This one is just plain bullshit. Defence lawyers for Zacarias Moussaoui are presenting their client as the survivor of a troubled childhood. His mother was beaten and he was in and out of orphanages for his first six years. Apparently, as a teen, he was rejected as a "dirty Arab" by his girlfriend's family.
   As a teen, my husband came to Canada from Guyana and was immediately treated to violent discrimination by high school thugs who called him names and waited after class, more than once, to beat him up. He works today as a gainfully employed member of society. As a child, I was beaten by a father who broke more than one wooden yard stick over my sisters and me. I have not turned to acts of violence. There are countless others like my husband and myself. We all carry around our own baggage and we all have to find non-violent ways to deal with it.
   Give me a fucking break on this one. I don't care what the man's childhood entailed. It does not justify his part in 9/11.