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...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...
...like admitting wiretap evidence. Many think Blunkett is already planning to retreat to this safer ground. Outside the courthouse where Mzoudi was acquitted stands a slate-gray stone monument inscribed simply, "1933." A nearby plaque remembers those "abused, killed and treated with contempt by the judges and prosecutors" of Hamburg during the Third Reich. It is a reminder that the law can destroy as well as protect, and that even in the age of terror, the best defense for democracies may be in having the confidence to err on the side of the individual as they struggle to balance threats...
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...
...connection with Sept. 11. Before Zakeri's testimony, he seemed set for acquittal because the Federal Criminal Police said it received information - believed to have come from the interrogation of captured al Qaeda leader Ramzi Binalshibh, who is in U.S. custody - indicating that the Hamburg cell had only four members: the three hijackers and Binalshibh. If Mzoudi is found innocent, "the court will find a lot of support in the [German] legal community," says Georg Prasser, vice president of the German Bar Association. "Such a decision would prove that there are certain basic rights that still exist in our society...
...single nation out of emigrants from everywhere else. But now every great city is an immigrant city. You don't have to go to New York City, as once you did, to find the shock of a happy Babel; you can enjoy it just as easily in London, Toronto, Hamburg or Sydney. Mass tourism, which has been the most important modernizing force in the world for the past 20 years, is hardly an American phenomenon at all. It is European tourists, not Americans, who have transformed every place with a beach from Thailand to Tunisia...