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A German-based Moroccan fugitive played a more significant role as a messenger in the U.S. terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, than previously thought. According to an intelligence report given to a German court by the United States, Zakariya Essabar allegedly traveled from Germany to Pakistan in August 2001 bearing a simple message for the al-Qaida leadership -- eleven-nine, which is an alternate version of the Sept. 11 date, the Washington Post said Tuesday. Germany named Essabar a fugitive shortly after the attacks as investigators began unraveling the trail left by the Hamburg-based cell to which many of the hijackers...

A wedding video shot in a Hamburg mosque has been broadcast for the first time and shows grainy scenes of Sept. 11 al-Qaida suicide pilots celebrating with other alleged plotters, possibly including suspects still not formally identified. The video of the October 1999 wedding of Said Bahaji being celebrated in a large room at the al Quds mosque suspected as a recruiting center for al-Qaida operatives has been in the hands of investigators since shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington. In the immediate aftermath of the terror attacks, the Bahaji wedding video provided investigators critical...

A Moroccan has been charged with more than 3,000 counts of accessory to murder in connection with the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington, the German authorities said yesterday. Mounir El Motassadeq was accused of membership of a terrorist organisation and being an accessory to murder in 3,116 cases, Kay Nehm, the chief federal prosecutor said. Mr Nehm said El Motassadeq, 28, was an integral member of a terrorist cell in Hamburg which included three of the four suicide pilots, Mohammed Ata, Marwan Al-Shehhi and Ziad Jarrah. He is alleged to have acted as logistics and finance manager...

<p>BERLIN, Germany (CNN) --German authorities have issued an arrest warrant for a 24-year-old Moroccan, accusing him of founding a terrorist group and mass murder in connection with the September 11 attacks.</p> <p>The German federal prosecutor said Zakariya Essabar was suspected of working with some of the hijackers of the airliners in founding a terrorist group.</p>