Alleged al-Qaeda plotter Zacarias Moussaoui has said he has "no regret, no remorse" for the attacks on 11 September 2001 in the US that killed nearly 3,000 people.
Earlier, Moussaoui accused his US court-appointed lawyers of "criminal non-assistance".
Defence lawyers claim Moussaoui is lying about his role in Sept. 11 in hope of achieving martyrdom through execution. They have subpoenaed would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid from a federal prison to ask him whether he was to be second-in-command of Moussaoui's hijack crew on 9/11 as Moussaoui testified.
Perhaps anticipating that Reid might not confirm his account, Moussaoui testified that Reid "doesn't know anything. They told me not to say anything to him. When appropriate, they will tell him."
He also argued that he could not get a fair trial so close to the Pentagon and criticised his lawyers for not trying to move the case to Colorado as he tried to do when he represented himself. Moussaoui asserted they preferred the fame that comes from handling a high-profile trial.
The only person charged in the US in connection with the Sept. 11 attacks, Moussaoui already has been found eligible for execution by the jury. Even though he was in jail in Minnesota at the time of the attacks, the jury ruled that lies he told federal agents a month before the attacks kept them from identifying and stopping some of the hijackers.
He mocked a Navy officer who wept as she described the death of two subordinates in the attack on the Pentagon.
"I think it was disgusting for a military person" to cry, Moussaoui said of Lt. Nancy McKeown. "She is military. She should expect people at war with her to want to kill her."
Asked if he was happy to hear her sobbing, he said, "Make my day."
He noted many relatives of victims wept on the witness stand, then walked past him in the courtroom and looked his way without crying. "I find it disgusting that people come here to share their grief over the death of some other person," he said.
"I'm glad there was pain, and I wish there will be more pain," Moussaoui said. "The children in Palestine and in Chechnya will have pain. I want you to share their pain."
So, Spencer asked: "You have no regret, no remorse?"
"No regret, no remorse," Moussaoui responded.
When he left court after the judge and jury, he yelled: "God curse America. We will win. It's just a question of time."
In a lengthy explanation of why he hates Americans, Moussaoui said Islam requires Muslims to be the world's superpower as he flipped through a copy of the Quran searching for verses to support his assertion. He said one verse requires Muslims "to fight against all who believe not in Allah."
"We have an obligation to be the superpower. You have to be subdued," Moussaoui said. "America is a superpower and you want to eradicate Islam."
He criticised US support for Israel. "Every child who has been killed in Palestine has been killed because of you," he said. Israel is "just a missing star in the American flag," he added.
The trial resumes Monday.