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...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...
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...
...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...
...criticized the government for not trying alternatives that might be equally effective, like electronic tagging and intensive surveillance, or giving prosecutors more tools to convict terrorists in open court, 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...
...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." By Charles P. Wallace and William Boston...