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...mother, A?cha el-Wafi, 59, is giving the full story behind that private agony. Set for publication Oct. 20, her book My Lost Son is as much her own story as it is Moussaoui's. It tells the tale of an unhappy 14-year-old forced into marriage in Morocco; of the sociopathic husband who brought her to France and then brutalized her and the children until they fled for their lives; and of el-Wafi's efforts to embrace the opportunities offered in France to create a stable, promising life for her kids. In short, it follows el-Wafi...
...charges that he was the "20th hijacker," he was convicted of conspiring to commit acts of terrorism in related to the 9/11 attacks and sentenced to life in prison. For el-Wafi, her son had gone far beyond even the backward attitudes she happily left behind in her native Morocco. "After all the years of struggle and fighting, I thought I'd placed my family out of the way of hate, violence, and darkness," el-Wafi writes after being informed by French officials that her son was in U.S. custody on suspicions of being tied to 9/11. "But the nightmare...
...During one prison visit, for example, Moussaoui criticized el-Wafi's having taken out a bank loan to build the family house in Narbonne to avoid living in housing projects. Moussaoui also told her she was wrong not to have taken her kids back to be raised in Muslim Morocco...
...German intelligence report cites another deal, an "urgent request [by the United States] to avert pressure from the EU side [on Morocco] because of human-rights abuses in connection with [Zammar's]arrest, because Morocco was a valuable partner in the fight against terrorism." Grey, who had the report translated, says he obtained the classified report from a German investigator, who remains anonymous. The German government has acknowledged that they dropped the charges against the Syrian intelligence officers because of their cooperation in anti-terrorism, but they deny that the decision was specifically linked to the Zammar case...
...down at 3:40 a.m., while most people in the Moroccan capital were asleep; Mohammed has since been declared an enemy combatant and moved to Guantanamo, where he remains in legal limbo. Poring over the flight logs, Grey concluded it was 28th time CIA jets had touched down in Morocco since the 9/11 attacks. Last year, Grey asked Morocco's Interior Ministry for confirmation, in written questions submitted through the Moroccan Embassy in London; the e-mailed reply said no CIA flight had ever visited the Kingdom...