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...custody. The U.S. government turned down the prosecution's requests to allow Binalshibh to testify, or even provide transcripts of his questioning. "The interests of the state to maintain secrecy cannot result in a disadvantage for the defendant," said Judge Klaus Tolksdorf. Last month, another judge acquitted Abdelghani Mzoudi, another Moroccan and friend of the Hamburg hijackers, of the same...
ACQUITTED. ABDELGHANI MZOUDI, 31, Moroccan electrical-engineering student and the second suspect to stand trial for helping the Sept. 11 suicide hijackers; of charges of accessory to murder and membership in al-Qaeda; in Hamburg, Germany. Mzoudi's former roommate was convicted of the same charges last year, but German prosecutors attributed their failure in this case to Washington's refusal to allow testimony from captured terrorist suspects...
...Europe; many definitions of justice. In Hamburg last week, Judge Klaus Rühle announced that his five-man court was freeing alleged Sept. 11 accomplice Abdelghani Mzoudi "not because the court is convinced of [his] innocence, but only because the evidence was not enough for a conviction." Mzoudi, a 31-year-old Moroccan who witnesses said had trained at al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan, didn't deny having extensive ties with the hijackers who lived in Hamburg. He made financial transactions for one and arranged housing for others. The government believed he knew about the attacks in advance...
Witness For The Prosecution For the past six weeks, Abdelghani Mzoudi seemed likely to be acquitted by a Hamburg court of charges that he helped the terrorists who carried out the Sept. 11 attacks. Last week prosecutors introduced a surprise witness: a self-proclaimed Iranian intelligence agent, known as Hamid Reza Zakeri, who said Mzoudi handled logistics for the three hijackers based in Hamburg before the terror strikes. "I'm very excited," says Ulrich von Jeinsen, a lawyer representing American relatives of victims of Sept. 11, who under German law can take part in the trial. "This is severe information...
...southwestern village of Lons. All four were placed under formal investigation on suspicion of having links with a terrorist organization. Spanish Interior Minister Angel Acebes said ETA had been "decapitated" - a claim officials have made before. Surprise Setback GERMANY A Hamburg court unexpectedly released Moroccan 9/11 suspect Abdelghani Mzoudi from custody, after receiving new evidence the judge said might exonerate him of charges of belonging to the Hamburg-based al-Qaeda cell responsible for the attacks. Lawyers for fellow Moroccan Mounir el-Motassadeq, who was jailed on identical charges in February - and is the only person worldwide to be convicted...