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Crop-dusting allegations are dropped©Associated PressJune 21, 2002 ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- The government has revised its indictment of accused Sept. 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui, deleting allegations that he inquired about crop-dusting planes and had information about them on his computer. The U.S. attorney's office, the Justice Department and the FBI refused to comment on the reason for the deletions in an indictment that was filed Wednesday and announced Thursday. The original indictment handed down in December said that among possessions seized from Moussaoui was "a computer disc containing information related to the aerial application of pesticides." That allegation was eliminated, as was a second reference to the subject: "In or about June 2001, in Norman, Okla., Zacarias Moussaoui made inquiries about starting a crop-dusting company." The Minneapolis FBI office in August had tried to obtain a warrant to search Moussaoui's computer. Field agents were turned down by headquarters, prompting an angry letter in May from agent Coleen Rowley to FBI director Robert Mueller. The discovery of the crop-dusting information was among the reasons that headquarters' inaction was severely criticized.
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