Grounded

An interesting portrait of the fruits of our War on Terror's labor, the only prosecuted 9/11 terrorist in America and beyond (compare to Spain's arrests surrounding 3/11):

The man who trained Zacarias Moussaoui to fly.

He looks back at Moussaoui as a walking contradiction: the quiet potential terrorist, the incompetent pilot, the Muslim fundamentalist who took advantage of an open, secular society to prepare himself possibly to attack it.

When Moussaoui met Clancy Prevost, he met his equal and his opposite. Prevost is an atheist with the intellectual energy of a college freshman, the moral clarity of a monk, and the wonder of a man awakened for the first time at the age of fifty-six from a life of drinking.

“Live your life according to principles, not people,” he says, head shaking slightly, eyes wide, grinning at the beauty of the statement. Prevost can smell B.S. a mile away. He smelled it all over Zacarias Moussaoui a month before September 11th. Today, Moussaoui is the only person who has been charged in the U.S. for the events of September 11th.