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...Binalshibh, an alleged key al-Qaeda operative in U.S. 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...
...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...
...case in a Munich court, which said the bank must pay damages to Kirch. If that wasn't bad enough, Deutsche's chief executive Josef Ackermann goes on trial with five others in Düsseldorf this week. The charges stem from the €15 million bonus paid to Klaus Esser, former CEO of telecom and engineering giant Mannesmann, after it was taken over by Britain 's Vodafone. Thus far, investors don't seem put out; the bank's stock is near a 52-week high. But how is the bank supposed to get business done with its boss...
...Pharmacists renew your faith in rock—not to mention frontmen who can pull off singing and guitar-playing at the same time—at a local stop on their nationwide tour with guests Weird War, Helms, and DJ Klaus. 7 p.m., $12; 18+. The Paradise Club, 967 Comm. Ave., Boston...
...trial along with five other German executives in a case tied to the €180 billion takeover of Germany's Mannesmann by the British mobile-phone company Vodafone in 2000, the largest corporate merger in European history. Ackermann and three of the others, including the former national labor leader Klaus Zwickel, were members of Mannesmann's supervisory board at the time and are charged with "breach of trust," a violation of fiduciary duty. The case has stunned the German business and political worlds and sparked intense speculation about hidden motives. Some see it as an attack on Germany...