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...terror. That's the message German judges sent to Berlin and Washington D.C. by ordering a retrial for the only terror suspect ever convicted in connection with the 9/11 attacks. The appeals court in Karlsruhe ruled that Mounir el-Motassadeq, 29, did not receive a fair trial in Hamburg last year. The Moroccan, a friend of the Hamburg hijackers, had been found guilty of being an accessory to murder on more than 3,000 counts in connection with 9/11, but the court was unable to hear testimony from Ramzi Binalshibh, an alleged key al-Qaeda operative in U.S. custody...
...fence as in league with anti-Israeli forces. But the maneuvering doesn't impress those who would prefer a tougher international stance on the fence. "Diplomats are shying away from using clear language to criticize Israeli politics," says Udo Steinbach, who heads the Middle Eastern Studies Institute in Hamburg. "[They] are waiting for a constructive reaction from Israel that never materializes." Israel says it is waiting for a constructive reaction from the Palestinians. And so the waiting - and dying - goes...
MILESTONES: An arrest in Sarasota; an al-Qaeda acquittal in Hamburg; a murder case resolved in Rapid City; the death of a mischievous Olympic champion...
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...
...from a 57% approval in June 2002 to 34% today, according to a poll for Die Welt. His Social Democrats face almost certain defeat in a string of local elections later this year. "All three men are very pragmatic," says Cord Jakobeit, a political scientist at the University of Hamburg. "If a joint initiative makes them look better on the domestic front, they will seize it." In the past, Germany and France only needed each other to look good. Monetary union and the euro itself are parade examples of big changes they led. But with enlargement, "they have lost this...