‘Moussaoui trying to use court to send messages’

Brinkema noted Moussaoui admitted in a closed hearing this week that the US proposal to keep his court filings under seal would ‘‘frustrate his efforts to convey messages to his ‘people’’’.

As a result, the judge decided to keep some of Moussaoui’s previously filed motions under seal and said any future pleadings that contained threats, racial slurs, calls to action or other ‘‘irrelevant and inappropriate language’’ would be filed and kept under seal.

‘‘The defendant’s pleadings have been replete with irrelevant, inflammatory and insulting rhetoric, which would not be tolerated from an attorney practicing in this court,’’ Brinkema said in her order.

In the pleadings, Moussaoui has called his lawyers a horde of bloodsuckers and a ‘‘death team’’, and accused Brinkema of being biased and having a possible mental disorder. (Reuters)