A defiant Moussaoui gets life term

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By Deborah Charles and James Vicini ALEXANDRIA, Virginia (Reuters) - A defiant Zacarias Moussaoui shouted "God curse America" in the U.S. courtroom where he was sentenced to life in prison on Thursday, after family members of September 11 victims angrily confronted him. Moussaoui, the only person convicted in the United States in connection with the September 11 attacks, sat passively as three family members came forward, including one whose husband died in the plane that was crashed into the Pentagon. "For you I feel nothing but disgust," said Rosemary Dillard. "I hope you sit in that jail without seeing the sky, without seeing the sun ... and that your name never comes up in the news again." In what are likely to be his last public remarks before being put away in a maximum-security federal prison, Moussaoui used his opportunity to address the court to yell out the curse against America he has sounded almost daily in his two-month sentencing trial. "God save Osama bin Laden. You'll never get him," the confessed al Qaeda operative added. He was sentenced minutes later by U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema to life in prison with no possibility of release. A jury on Wednesday rejected a U.S.-government request that Moussaoui be executed and it recommended he spend the rest of his life in prison. He will almost certainly be sent to the super-maximum-security facility in Florence, Colorado. Moussaoui, 37, pleaded guilty to conspiracy in connection with the deadly hijackings.