CONVICTED British "shoe-bomber" Richard Reid would not be making an appearance at the death penalty trial of Al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui, a prison spokeswoman saild.
"Reid is here at our facility and we have no information about him going anywhere," the spokeswoman said by telephone from the federal prison in Florence, Colorado, where he is serving a life sentence.
Defense lawyers for Moussaoui, who is eligible for the death penalty for his role in the September 11, 2001 attacks against New York and Washington, had asked the court to bring Reid to testify at the trial.
Reid became known as the "shoe bomber" after he tried to blow up an airliner using explosives hidden in his shoe. He pleaded guilty in 2003 to trying to blow up an American Airlines Paris-Miami flight on December 22, 2001 and murder the 197 people aboard.
Moussaoui sensationally claimed on March 27, while testifying in his trial, that had he not been in prison on September 11, 2001, he would have flown a fifth hijacked jet into the White House.
He said Reid was to have been part of his crew.
Previously Moussaoui had always denied that he was to take part in those attacks.
Moussaoui was arrested on immigration charges in August 2001 and jailed, before the attacks. In an earlier phase of his death-penalty trial, the jury agreed that he was eligible for the death penalty because his lies about the planned attacks contributed to the almost 3000 deaths that day.
It is not clear whether Reid was in the US at the time of the September 11 attacks.
On Thursday, during his second turn on the witness stand, Moussaoui said that Reid himself was not even aware of his role in the plan, rendering Reid's testimony useless.
After the defence's request Monday for Reid to take the stand, the judge had delivered a sealed subpoena, without revealing if it was meant for Reid.
The same subpoena was cancelled this morning, according to the website of the federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, where the trial resumes Monday.