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CNN Wolf Blitzer's Situation Room transcript for 4/3 WOLF BLITZER ON CNN: Carrie Lemack is joining us on the phone now from Boston. Her mother died aboard American Airlines flight 11 on 9/11. You know, your mother, Judy, Carrie, give us your reaction to this unanimous decision by the jurors in Alexandria, Virginia, that Zacarias Moussaoui is now eligible for the death sentence? CARRIE LEMACK, DAUGHTER OF 9/11 VICTIM (on phone): I think disappointment is probably the best word to describe the feeling here. I'm here with many other family members from the Boston area. And of all of us only one was happy with the verdict today. BLITZER: Why are you disappointed? The normal reaction would be you want this guy dead if in fact he participated in this conspiracy? LEMACK: Well, I don't know if it's normal to want someone to die. I think that's actually abnormal and in this case for us we don't want to make him a martyr. This is somebody who said he hates America. He wants to die killing Americans, and the last thing that a lot of us want to see happen is to allow us to die with the name martyr by his side. I think that we feel that he should rot in jail without a platform to spout his anti-American sentiments and without having the notoriety that he's now gaining. You're spending all this time talking about a man who we were told was an al Qaeda wannabe. BLITZER: So, is it your position that he should not get the death sentence because of the facts in this case? Or are you in principle opposed, Carrie, to the death sentence? LEMACK: It's from the facts in the case. From everything we saw the prosecution did not prove that he had anything to do with my mother's murder. More that he wished that he had to do something with it. You know, we were saying earlier -- you were saying earlier that Moussaoui was his own worst witness. And it sounds to me like he's someone who likes the attention he's getting. His reaction today was almost nothing when they said that he's going to be eligible for the death penalty, and I think what is really sad here is we are spending all this time talking about someone, who as we said, he is a want to be. He wanted to do these things, and al Qaeda didn't want him. He wasn't even good enough for them, if you can imagine it. And yet we're spending all our time and energy and taxpayer dollars on this man. If he's found guilty for the death penalty in the next stage there's going to be appeal after appeal. It's going to be millions of dollars. And for a lot of us it's not how we want to spend our energy focusing on Zacarias Moussaoui. I would rather our government spends their time finding Osama bin Laden, for example. BLITZER: There's Carrie Lemack, co-founder of Families of September 11. She lost her mother on American Airlines flight 11. Carrie, thank you very much for giving us your reaction. COURTESY OF POLITICAL WAVES
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