September 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui said on Thursday he had no regrets for those who died in the hijacked plane attacks and told jurors in his death penalty trial he wished "there would be more pain."

In comments that brought at least one relative of a victim to tears, Moussaoui mocked survivors of the attacks who had told the court of their pain and said he would like to see similar attacks against Americans every day.

"I find it disgusting that some people would come here to share their grief in order to get the death of someone else," he said.

"We wanted you to have pain in your country," said Moussaoui, an admitted al-Qaida member. "I just wish it would have happened September 12, September 13, September 14 ... there's no remorse for justice."

He was speaking after a week of graphic testimony by guilt-stricken survivors of the deadly attacks and sobbing family members of some of the nearly 3,000 people who died. Asked during his two and a half hours of testimony whether he had any regret for the suffering caused by the attacks, Moussaoui responded: "None whatsoever."

Moussaoui said he had enjoyed recent images in court showing the Pentagon after it was attacked on September 11 and said reports of all the deaths "make my day."

His comments prompted tears from a distraught family member of one victim who eventually got up and left the courtroom.

Moussaoui, 37, who has pleaded guilty to six counts of conspiracy in connection with the attacks, pulled back from statements made after his indictment that indicated he would welcome a death sentence.

His lawyer Gerald Zerkin showed him a filing he made to the court in August 2002 in which he said the "greatest jihad in Islam is to speak the truth in front of the tyrant and be executed for it."

Source: China Daily