ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — Al-Qaida defendant Zacarias Moussaoui says he consistently rejected the opportunity to participate in the Sept. 11 attacks and was to be part of a separate operation.

The assertions -- in more than three dozen motions made public Wednesday -- were not new.

U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema periodically releases Moussaoui's motions after the government checks them for coded messages and the judge deletes the most inflammatory language.

Brinkema has granted Moussaoui access to three al-Qaida captives, but the government has refused to make them available. The judge last week imposed sanctions that severely restricted government evidence related to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and barred prosecutors from seeking the death penalty. The government has appealed in an effort to salvage its case.

"The record can show that I constantly rejected any participation in 9/11," Moussaoui wrote in a motion in January. "Instead, as I said in open court, I was part of a different operation, with different al-Qaida member and target.

"It is an establish fact that al-Qaida alway prepare the next operation before executing the current one."

Moussaoui also stated that al-Qaida likes to "vary the location" of its targets, citing the bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa, the attack on the USS Cole in Yemen and the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. He said an attack on Europe was "coming soon." Words after that phrase were deleted from the public version of the filing.

Instead of Sept. 11, Moussaoui, who has admitted to being an al-Qaida loyalist, has contended he was to be part of a later operation outside the United States.

While Moussaoui submitted the motions as his own legal representative, an experienced court-appointed defense team made the same points in far more professional filings. Moussaoui's motions were filled with the kinds of insults, directed toward the judge, the prosecutors and his lawyers, that have characterized his filings for nearly two years.