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Jailed Sept 11 Suspect Released Pending Retrial
Reuters ^ | April 7, 2004 | Christian Charisius

Posted on 04/07/2004 3:55:16 PM PDT by tomball

Edited on 06/29/2004 7:10:29 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

HAMBURG, Germany (Reuters) - The only man convicted over the September 11 attacks was released from custody in Germany on Wednesday, raising the prospect that he will be acquitted in a forthcoming retrial.

The same court that sentenced Moroccan Mounir El Motassadeq, 30, to 15 years jail in 2003 for conspiring to murder around 3,000 people in the September 2001 plane attacks in the United States, ruled he should be freed.He emerged beaming from Hamburg's main courthouse, but made no comment before four friends steered him into a waiting car.


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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Germany; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: elmotassadeq
Please, moderator, let me know if this post gets pulled and why. I posted this article twice, but it was removed without explanation. Considering we are still at war with the people responsible for 911, this is important news that is being downplayed considerably by the media. Thank you.
1 posted on 04/07/2004 3:55:16 PM PDT by tomball
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2 posted on 04/07/2004 3:55:57 PM PDT by Support Free Republic (If Woody had gone straight to the police, this would never have happened!)
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To: tomball
Doesn't anybody remember what happened!!!
Here is a
9/11 link that WILL remind you!!!

(It takes awhile to load due to all the pictures and the music.)

Stay Strong,
Fuzzy

 

3 posted on 04/07/2004 4:09:18 PM PDT by fuzzy122
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To: fuzzy122
They will never find him again... poof, he's gone.
4 posted on 04/07/2004 4:11:13 PM PDT by oolatec
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To: tomball
I'm sure he'll reappear for his retrial.
5 posted on 04/07/2004 4:14:39 PM PDT by pabianice
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To: tomball
Ah, gotta love treating terrorism as a law enforcement problem ...
6 posted on 04/07/2004 4:43:19 PM PDT by Mr. Buzzcut
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