Word: mounir
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...claim officials have made before. Surprise Setback GERMANY A Hamburg court unexpectedly released Moroccan 9/11 suspect Abdelghani Mzoudi from custody, after receiving new evidence the judge said might exonerate him of charges of belonging to the Hamburg-based al-Qaeda cell responsible for the attacks. Lawyers for fellow Moroccan Mounir el-Motassadeq, who was jailed on identical charges in February - and is the only person worldwide to be convicted in relation to 9/11 - filed a motion for his immediate release. Mzoudi's trial continues this week. Right Minister SWITZERLAND The balance of power in the government shifted to the right...
...sheiks--Salman al-Awdah and Safar al-Hawali--both of whom are closely associated with Osama bin Laden and who provided religious justification for the Sept. 11 attacks, according to the SITE Institute, a Washington-based terrorist-research group that monitors the Internet. In the recent German trial of Mounir El Motassadeq, an accomplice of the hijackers, prosecutors revealed phone calls between him and both clerics...
CONVICTED. MOUNIR EL-MOTASSADEQ, 28, Moroccan student; of 3,066 counts of accessory to murder in the aiding of al-Qaeda members planning the Sept. 11 attacks, in part by wiring money transfers to one of the 9/11 pilots; in Hamburg, Germany. The first to be convicted in the attacks, he received the maximum allowable sentence of 15 years in prison, which he appealed. Though he admitted attending a training camp, he claimed he was an unwitting friend of the plotters...
...9/11 terrorists boasted of their plans to attack the World Trade Center as far back as the spring of 2000, according to German officials who last week revealed new details of the Hamburg-based hijackers' actions. The information came from an investigation of Moroccan Mounir El Motassadeq, who was charged with 3,116 counts of accessory to murder and membership in a terror organization. El Motassadeq has denied involvement in the attacks...
...seriously its crafters take their own recommendations. Most Egyptians I know have a sophisticated understanding of how the Bush Administration's support for Israel works, and what it means. "Sharon is a 'man of peace,' Israel must defend herself, but the Palestinians can just go drown," says Ahmed Mounir, a U.S.-educated businessman, as we watch al-Jazeera in his living room. Mounir has family in the U.S., and a deep desire to feel differently about a country that schooled him, and in many other ways earns his admiration. But he's disappointed by how little effort the Bush administration...