SAN DIEGO (AP) — An attorney hired by the mother of terrorism suspect Zacarias Moussaoui has returned home after failing to meet with the only man charged as a Sept. 11 conspirator.

Randall B. Hamud, the attorney, said Sunday that arrangements were being made to bring Aicha el-Wafi, Moussaoui's mother, to the United States to meet with her son. He did not give a timeline.

El-Wafi, who lives in France, wants to dissuade her 34-year-old son from representing himself at his upcoming trial.

In April, Moussaoui delivered a rambling, 50-minute courtroom speech in which he said he wanted to fire his court-appointed lawyers and was praying for the destruction of the United States. He also asked for a Muslim attorney of his choice to advise him.

Hamud, an Arab-American raised Muslim, spent part of last week in Virginia, where Moussaoui is being held in near-total isolation in an Alexandria jail. El-Wafi supplied Hamud with a letter of introduction, written in French, which Hamud left with Moussaoui's jailers.

When Moussaoui did not reply, Hamud returned to San Diego over the weekend.

"He didn't say yes, he didn't say no," the lawyer said.

Hamud said he remains on call, ready to return to the East Coast at a moment's notice should Moussaoui agree to meet him.

Moussaoui has been in custody since his Aug. 16 arrest in Minnesota when authorities became suspicious of his conduct.

Hamud has called Moussaoui's plans to represent himself "a one-way ticket to the death chamber."