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Court orders retrial of 9/11 hijacker friend (Germany; MOTASSADEQ; Never-ending story continues)
Scotsman.com ^
Posted on 11/16/2006 1:39:30 AM PST by Michael81Dus
KARLSRUHE, Germany (Reuters) - Germany's highest court of appeals on Thursday ordered that a Moroccan friend of the September 11 hijackers must face a third trial on charges of aiding the deadly 2001 attacks on the United States.
Judge Klaus Tolksdorf, who has said that Mounir El Motassadeq clearly knew his acquaintances from Hamburg were planning plane attacks, ordered the retrial.
Motassadeq was convicted last year of belonging to a terrorist organisation and sentenced to 7 years in prison, but cleared of the more serious charge of abetting mass murder.
He was unexpectedly freed from a Hamburg prison in February after Germany's Constitutional Court upheld a defence motion that he be released pending an appeal.
Motassadeq is one of only a handful of men to have been tried in connection with the September 11 attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people.
UPDATE...
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39941000/jpg/_39941212_1motassadek203cred.jpg
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6153624.stm
Last Updated: Thursday, 16 November 2006, 09:40 GMT
"Moroccan convicted over 9/11 plot"
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "A German appeals court has found a Moroccan, Mounir al-Motassadek, guilty of being an accessory to murder in the 11 September 2001 attacks on the USA."
