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...connection with Sept. 11. Before Zakeri's 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...
...even allege that he had a link to the 9/11 conspiracy. She put those shackles on the government's case because it had denied the defendant, on national-security grounds, access to witnesses who were in a position to say whether he was part of the 9/11 gang--Ramzi Binalshibh, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other key al-Qaeda figures the U.S. has captured. Prosecutors are appealing the decision, with their first briefs due this week. But if they lose, they may be stuck with a precedent that would allow defendants access to avowed terrorists, perhaps inspiring the government...
...discovered that Moussaoui, who had lived in London and had a master's degree from South Bank University, had recently been to Pakistan and Malaysia and had spent time at a terrorist training camp in Afghanistan. Moreover, in a notebook he had the German phone number and alias of Ramzi Binalshibh, a key orchestrator of the 9/11 attacks and, like the hijackers, had been wired funds...
Early on the morning of Sept. 11, 2002, Pakistani intelligence officers engaged in an intense fire fight with occupants of a suspected al-Qaeda safe house and captured Ramzi Binalshibh, a former housemate of some of the hijackers and an alleged coordinator of the attacks. Binalshibh's capture was a victory in the war against terrorism, but Moussaoui saw the arrest as something more practical: it offered a possible witness for his defense. He asked the court for the opportunity to depose Binalshibh. In fact, he had been named in the Moussaoui indictment, which seemed to hint that Moussaoui...
...other hand, provide for a looser definition of complicity in terrorism, allowing investigating magistrates to jail Ganczarski as a probable coconspirator in the Djerba attack. That's not all they will be looking into. One of the telephone numbers that German officials found at Ganczarski's home was for Ramzi Binalshibh, a key planner of the 9/11 attacks who was arrested last September in Pakistan. --By Bruce Crumley and Steve Zwick