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Posted on 10/10/2002 12:29:07 AM PDT by HAL9000
BERLIN (AP) -- A Moroccan man was arrested in Hamburg on Thursday on suspicion that he provided logistical support to the cell of Sept. 11 hijackers led by Mohamed Atta, German federal prosecutors said.Abdelghani Mzoudi, 29, had close and long-standing contacts with the members of the cell, and attended training camps in Afghanistan in the summer of 2000, according to a statement from prosecutors.
Copyright 2002 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.
Federal Prosecutor's Office: arrest of a presumed terrorist's helper
Karlsruhe (GPA) - general Attorney of the Federal Supreme Court Kay Nehm let a presumed helper of the suicide assassins on Thursday in Hamburg 11th of September, 2001 arrest. How the Federal Prosecutor's Office informed on Thursday, besides, it is about the 29 years old Moroccan Abdelghani Mzoudi.
He has maintained close relations to the so named Hamburg cell around Mohammed Atta and has supported them(her) logistically. The court of justice has remitted a warrant of arrest because of support of a terrorist union.
After the knowledge of the investigators Mzoudi knew the terrorism plans of the group. He has placed at disposal for the still quick Zakaria Essabar around the turn of the year in 2001 money for his(its) flight education planned in the USA. He has helped the suicide pilot Marwan Alshehhi in the obscuring of his(its) place of residence and has procured for him during his(its) last weeks in Germany a room in a hall of residence.
With Essabar and the Mounir El Mottasadek accused in Hamburg he has stopped partly at the same time in summer, 2000 in training camps in Afghanistan.
Germany arrests man on suspicion of Sept 11 link
BERLIN, Oct 10 (Reuters) - German authorities said on Thursday they had arrested a Moroccan man on suspicion of involvement in the September 11 attacks on the United States.
Police arrested 29-year-old Abdelghani Mzoudi in the northern port city of Hamburg on Thursday after a formal arrest warrant was issued on Wednesday, the Federal State Prosecutor said in a statement.
Mzoudi was arrested on suspicion of providing logistical help for Mohamed Atta and other suicide hijackers involved in the attacks on New York and Washington that killed nearly 3,000 people, the statement said.
Atta and two of the other hijackers lived for a time in Hamburg.
German police arrest al-Qaeda suspect
German police say they have arrested a Moroccan man suspected of helping an al-Qaeda cell involved in the 11 September attacks on the United States.
Police arrested 29-year-old Abdelghani Mzoudi in the northern port city of Hamburg on Thursday, the Federal State Prosecutor said in a statement.
Mr Mzoudi was arrested on suspicion of providing logistical support for Mohamed Atta and other suicide hijackers involved in the attacks on New York and Washington, the statement said.
Atta and two of the other alleged hijackers lived for a time in Hamburg.
September 11 suspect arrested in Germany
A Moroccan man has been arrested in Hamburg on suspicion he provided logistical support to the September 11 hijackers led by Mohamed Atta.
Abdelghani Mzoudi, 29, had close and long-standing contacts with the members of the cell, and had attended training camps in Afghanistan during the summer of 2000, the prosecutors said.
Mzoudi once lived in an apartment with Zakariya Essabar and Ramzi Binalshibh, two other suspected members of the Hamburg terrorist cell.
Binalshibh is now in US custody while Essabar remains at large.
Atta also lived in the apartment at one point, but had moved out by the time Mzoudi moved in on September 1, 1999.
Prosecutors claim Mzoudi was in particularly close contact with Essabar and with Mounir el Motassadeq, the only other person being held in Germany in connection with the September 11 attacks.
El Motassadeq, who is alleged to have helped the three with logistics leading up to the attacks, is due to go on trial in Hamburg on October 22.
Mzoudi "was aware of the aim of the group to commit terrorist attacks and supported it logistically," the prosecutors' statement said.
Around the end of 2000, he made money available to Essabar to finance his planned flight training in the United States.
Mzoudi, who is accused of supporting a terrorist organization, has been under investigation since October 25 last year.
Germany Arrests Man for 9/11 Ties
By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press Writer
BERLIN, Oct 10, 2002 (AP Online via COMTEX) -- German authorities arrested a Moroccan man Thursday on suspicion that he provided logistical support to the Hamburg cell of Sept. 11 plotters led by suspected ringleader Mohamed Atta, federal prosecutors said.
Abdelghani Mzoudi, 29, had close contacts over several years with members of the cell, which included two other Sept. 11 hijackers - Marwan al-Shehhi and Ziad Jarrah - and attended training camps in Afghanistan in the summer of 2000, according to a statement from prosecutors.
Mzoudi, the second person to be arrested in Germany in connection with the attacks, once lived in a Hamburg apartment with Zakariya Essabar and Ramzi Binalshibh, two other suspected members of the cell. Binalshibh is now in U.S. custody while Essabar remains at large.
Atta also lived in the apartment at one time, but had moved out by the time Mzoudi moved in on Sept. 1, 1999, authorities have said.
Prosecutors said that Mzoudi was in particularly close contact with Essabar and with Mounir el Motassadeq, the only other person being held in Germany in connection with the Sept. 11 attacks, and that they were in Afghanistan at the same time.
El Motassadeq, who is alleged to have helped Atta and the other hijackers with logistics leading up to the attacks, is set to go on trial in Hamburg Oct. 22.
Mzoudi, who was arrested in Hamburg, "was aware of the aim of the group to commit terrorist attacks and supported it logistically," the prosecutors' statement said.
Around the end of 2000, he made money available to Essabar to finance his planned flight training in the United States, it added.
Chief federal prosecutor Kay Nehm has said Binalshibh was foreseen as the fourth Sept. 11 pilot, but was unable to get a U.S. visa. Essabar was nominated to replace him, but also failed to get a visa.
In their stead, Zacarias Moussaoui flew to the United States in February 2001, Nehm said. He was arrested the following August after a flight school became suspicious, and is on trial in Virginia on charges of conspiracy to commit terrorism and murder federal employees.
Atta, Jarrah and al-Shehhi departed for the United States in mid-2000 to begin flight training at schools in Florida.
Prosecutors said Mzoudi helped "cover up al-Shehhi's whereabouts," finding a room in a student residence for his final weeks in Germany before he left for the United States in May 2000.
Hamburg police have said that a video of suspected cell member Said Bahaji's wedding, which authorities have cited previously, showed both Mzoudi and Atta, indicating the men had contact with one another. Bahaji disappeared days before the attacks and German authorities have issued a warrant for his arrest.
Mzoudi, who is accused of supporting a terrorist organization, has been under investigation since Oct. 25 last year, prosecutors said.
He was questioned in July, when prosecutors said he and seven other men had formed an Islamic fundamentalist group with the aim of carrying out attacks. Authorities said that raids then didn't turn up enough evidence to hold the men.
Prosecutors said Thursday that Mzoudi was arrested as a result of "complex investigations and a witness statement that emerged only this summer on his stay in Afghanistan."
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