Also, He Wasn't A Very Good Pilot

Testimony is underway in the penalty trial for confessed 9-11 conspirator Zacarious Moussaoui, where Thursday... a terror detainee being held at Guantanamo Bay testified Moussaoui had a dream.

Faiz Bafana -- supposedly the treasurer for the terror group Jammah Islamea -- said in the videotaped statement that Moussaoui told him he dreamed he was flying a plane into the White House. Bafana adds that when Moussaoui told Osama bin Laden about the dream, the terror kingpin told him to go for it.

"The Sheikh said go ahead," Bafana recalled Moussaoui telling him, according to CNN.

That testimony would certainly seem to back up the government's claim that Moussaoui tried to fulfill his dream when he came to the US for flight training in 2001. But Bafana said even other terrorists thought Moussaoui was a little nuts... and couldn't wait to get him out of their headquarters in Malaysia before the Frenchman of Morrocan descent came to the US.

"You thought Mr. Moussaoui was cuckoo, right?" defense attorney Frank Dunham asked Bafana on the a tape that was played for the court.

"Yes," Bafana said.

"And you couldn't wait to get him out of there?" Dunham, who is no longer assigned to the case, asked Bafana.

"Yes," the witness said.

Even if Moussaoui had been at the controls of a doomed airliner on 9/11, other testimony presented Thursday cast doubt on whether the alleged terror mastermind would have been able to fly it to his target.

Moussaoui's former flight instructor, Shohaib Nazir Kassam, told the court that his student was "not a very good pilot, not the best student, just below average."

Kassam added that Moussaoui -- whom he called "Zack" during his training -- had been unable to fly solo after 50+ hours of training.

"He couldn't maintain basic control most of the time," Kassam said.

The 37-year old Moussaoui is the only man tried in the US for his part in the 9-11 attacks... even though he was arrested in the upper midwest weeks before the hijackings. Jurors in Alexandria, VA are deciding whether Moussaoui is eligible for the death penalty -- and, if so, whether he should get it, or live out his remaining years in a federal prison cell.

FMI: www.usdoj.gov