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...even allege that he had a link to the 9/11 conspiracy. She put those shackles on the government's case because it had denied the defendant, on national-security grounds, access to witnesses who were in a position to say whether he was part of the 9/11 gang--Ramzi Binalshibh, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other key al-Qaeda figures the U.S. has captured. Prosecutors are appealing the decision, with their first briefs due this week. But if they lose, they may be stuck with a precedent that would allow defendants access to avowed terrorists, perhaps inspiring the government...
...that Moussaoui, who had lived in London and had a master's degree from South Bank University, had recently been to Pakistan and Malaysia and had spent time at a terrorist training camp in Afghanistan. Moreover, in a notebook he had the German phone number and alias of Ramzi Binalshibh, a key orchestrator of the 9/11 attacks and, like the hijackers, had been wired funds...
...hand, provide for a looser definition of complicity in terrorism, allowing investigating magistrates to jail Ganczarski as a probable coconspirator in the Djerba attack. That's not all they will be looking into. One of the telephone numbers that German officials found at Ganczarski's home was for Ramzi Binalshibh, a key planner of the 9/11 attacks who was arrested last September in Pakistan. --By Bruce Crumley and Steve Zwick
...conspiring in the Sept. 11 attacks, they didn't count on the case's becoming a Pandora's box of legal nightmares. First he fired his lawyers and peppered his court appearances with denunciations of the U.S. Then the judge ruled that Moussaoui had the right to question Ramzi Binalshibh, an al-Qaeda member now in U.S. custody who says he was central to the execution of the attacks and that, some reports say, Moussaoui was not involved. Federal prosecutors last week--arguing that the threat to national security of allowing Moussaoui to question Binalshibh outweighs Moussaoui's rights...
...acting chief defense counsel for the tribunals, has said he's convinced that "we're going to be able to provide a zealous defense for all detainees brought before trial." Still, it's all but certain that a military court won't allow Moussaoui to call witnesses like Binalshibh. Meanwhile, at the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where most of the captured al-Qaeda members are being held and any military tribunals will take place, discussion has begun about the possible need to build an execution chamber. --By Viveca Novak and Mark Thompson