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TAPE: EF01/0862 IN_TIME: 04:08:57 DURATION: 2:45 SOURCES: APTN RESTRICTIONS: DATELINE: New York, New York - Dec 13, 2001 SHOTLIST: 1 Pan down exterior U-S Federal Courthouse in downtown Manhattan 2 Courtroom sketch: Wide shot sketch, Zacarias Moussaoui on left, US District Judge Barbara S Jones in middle, Prosecutor (unnamed) on right 3 Courtroom sketch: Close up Moussaoui 4 Courtroom sketch: Pan from Prosecutor and Judge to Moussaoui 5 Medium shot security outside court 6 Wide shot security 7 Medium shot Moussaoui lawyer Donald DuBoulay exiting courthouse 8 SOUNDBITE: (English) Donald DuBoulay, Moussaoui's court-appointed lawyer: We are going to vigorously defend it, whoever represents him is going to vigorously defend it - and so at every step of the way, at every opportunity, we are going to do what we have to do to protect him 9 Wide shot cameras chasing after DuBoulay 10 Medium shot cameras chasing DuBoulay 11 Still Photo Moussaoui 12 Pan down exterior another U-S Federal Courthouse in downtown Manhattan 13 Osama Awadallah and lawyer Jesse Berman exit courthouse 14 SOUNDBITE: (English) Osama Awadallah (soundbite is preceded by walk-up of Awadallah and his lawyer flanked by reporters): Question from reporter: How does it feel to be out? Answer from Awadallah: Very beautiful feeling 15 SOUNDBITE: (English) Jesse Berman, Awadallah lawyer: I'm satisfied that the judge has done the right thing and let him out I'm happy that he has a family that supported him and put together his bail money, and he's going back to San Diego to be with his family, and I'm very happy about that I hope that the charges here will ultimately be dismissed 16 Wide shot media scrum following Awadallah and lawyer 17 Medium shot Awadallah, lawyer and media scrum pass by camera STORYLINE: The first person charged in a criminal indictment with plotting the September 11 attacks will stand trial in a Virginia court, a US federal judge ruled on Thursday Zacarias Moussaoui, 33, a Frenchman of Moroccan descent, was handcuffed during the brief hearing in New York before US District Judge Barbara S Jones, who ordered him sent to Alexandria, Virginia She also denied him bail Moussaoui, making his first public appearance since he was detained on August 17, nodded in the direction of the judge when she asked him if he understood his rights He faces an arraignment on January 2 on six charges of conspiracy: terrorism, aircraft piracy, destruction of aircraft, use of weapons of mass destruction, murder and destruction of property Four of the charges carry a potential death sentence Moussaoui's court-appointed lawyer, Donald DuBoulay, accused the government of failing to properly identify his client, declining to pay a 40-(US) dollar-per-day material witness fee to his client and improperly videotaping his meetings with Moussaoui He asked the judge to keep Moussaoui in New York for at least another day because a lawyer was flying in from France to meet with him The judge said she would not delay the transfer Outside court, DuBoulay said he would use every legal strategy possible to contest this matter The hearing was largely a procedural matter, since the indictment against Moussaoui was returned on Tuesday by a grand jury in Virginia It accuses him of working with 23 unindicted co-conspirators, including Osama bin Laden, to murder thousands of people in New York, Virginia and Pennsylvania on September 11 The attacks left some 32 hundred people dead or missing Even though Moussaoui spent the month before the hijackings in jail for alleged immigration violations, US Attorney General John Ashcroft called him an active participant with the 19 hijackers The 30-page indictment says Moussaoui's activities mirrored those of the hijackers, from attending flight school to buying flight deck instructional videos Moussaoui trained in Afghanistan in April 1998 at a camp run by bin Laden's al-Qaida terror network, the indictment charged Around the same time, Mohamed Atta and two other hijackers formed an al-Qaida cell in Germany Last year, Atta and the other hijackers traveled to the United States In July, Atta visited the same flight school in Norman, Oklahoma, where Moussaoui would eventually enroll He was detained in Minnesota while seeking flight training Moussaoui has been held in New York since September as a material witness in the investigation His lawyer said Moussaoui was facing threats and harsh physical treatment from jail guards and had protested his conditions President George W Bush's administration opted against using a military tribunal to try Moussaoui in secret In Washington, the Justice Department appointed two Virginia lawyers on Thursday to represent Moussaoui - Jerry Zerkin, an expert in capital punishment cases with the federal public defender's office in Richmond, and Ed MacMahon, a Middleburg attorney There were other developments on Thursday in the attacks investigation A Jordanian-born man accused of promoting terrorism by lying to a grand jury was freed from federal custody in New York after paying a 500-thousand (US) dollar bond Osama Awadallah, 21, a California college student, planned to fly home to San Diego on Friday He was one of three men detained in San Diego as material witnesses about 10 days after the terrorist attacks In testimony before a Manhattan grand jury, Awadallah admitted knowing one of the suicide hijackers But he allegedly lied about his association with another member of the terror team It must be remembered that this defendant is charged with making false declarations, not with terrorism or aiding and abetting terrorism or conspiring with terrorists, US District Judge Shira Scheindlin wrote in a 17-page opinion No new court date was set for Awadallah