If confirmed by the full Senate, which is expected to vote on the nomination later this week, Hayden, an Air Force General and currently the deputy director of National Intelligence, would replace Porter Goss as the CIA's new chief.

Goss resigned early this month after less than two years in office, and Bush nominated Hayden, 61, to head the CIA on May 8.

Hayden, born in Pennsylvania, earned a B.A. in history in 1967 and an M.A. in modern American history in 1969, both from Duquesne University.

He entered active military service in 1969, was appointed director of the National Security Agency in 1999, and became deputy director of National Intelligence in April 2005.

"The truth is that he has no connection whatsoever with the events of September 11. I am certain of what I say because I was responsible for entrusting the 19 brothers ... with the raids," said the speaker who appeared to be bin Laden in the four-and-a-half-minute tape posted on a Web site often used by Al Qaeda. The authenticity of the tape could not be verified.

The speakers also listed others who he said had no role in the acctacks, including prisoners held by the United States in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and several individuals he described as working for relief agencies and the media.

Moussaoui, 37, was sentenced on May 4 to life in prison with no chance of release. He pleaded guilty last year to conspiracy in connection with the attacks, in which hijacked airliners were flown into buildings in New York City and Washington D.C..

Malvo, who had never before taken the witness stand against his fellow sniper, gave the most detailed account yet of the planning that went into the three-week shooting spree that left 10 people dead at gas stations and parking lots.

Malvo also said Muhammad devised a two-phase plan to shoot as many as six random people each day for 30 days in the Washington area and then target children and police officers with explosives.

They planned to place explosives on school buses in Baltimore, kill a Baltimore police officer and then set off explosives packed with ball bearings at the officer's funeral.

When Malvo asked Muhammad why, he said, "For the sheer terror of it - the worst thing you can do to people is aim at their children."

Midway through the spree, Malvo said, Muhammad described the plans to take money they would extort from authorities to end the sniper shootings and establish a Canadian commune to train 140 homeless children in terrorist shooting and bombings to "continue the mission" in other cities.

After the Oct. 9, 2002, shooting of Dean Myers in Manassas, Va., Muhammad was upset that the two were not meeting their self-imposed quota of six shootings a day. Malvo said he became upset and refused to talk to Muhammad. At one point, Malvo said he put on headphones, listened to music and refused to acknowledge Muhammad.

Muhammad responded angrily, and told Malvo, "I'm not going to deal with it. When people have doubts is when they get caught."

Muhammad, 45, and Malvo, now 21, were arrested Oct. 24, 2002, at a western Maryland rest stop.

They have already been convicted in Virginia for a sniper murder there. Muhammad received a death sentence while Malvo was given a life term.

Prosecutors in Maryland have said they are pursuing a second trial in case the Virginia conviction is overturned on appeal and to seek justice in Montgomery County, where six of the 10 killings occurred.

The last time the two came face-to-face was in October 2003, when Malvo was brought in at Muhammad's first trial. Malvo refused to testify, invoking his constitutional right against self-incrimination.

Before testifying, Malvo told the judge that he intends to plead guilty to murder charges against him in Montgomery County for six life sentences.

He admitted that he had carried out attacks on Jordanian citizens, including truck drivers on the highway between Iraq and the kingdom.

The al-Qaida suspect added that he abducted two Moroccans working at Moroccan embassy in Baghdad last October. Last November, al-Qaida said the two men were sentenced to death.

The state prosecutor has started legal procedures to bring him to court for trial but the date has not been revealed. The al-Qaida in Iraq has claimed responsibility for several terror attacks against Jordan, including the triple hotel bombing attacks in Amman on Nov. 9, 2005, which killed at least 60 people, including three Iraqi suicide bombers.

A Jordanian military court has sentenced al-Zarqawi to death three times for terror attacks in his absence.