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WASHINGTON - The Treasury Department moved Friday to block the financial assets of Abdelghani Mzoudi, a suspected member of the al-Qaida cell in Germany that is believed to have planned the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. Mzoudi is among the 17 new people — all foreigners — that the government added to its list of entities suspected of helping to bankroll Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida terror network. The action by Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control means that U.S. banks must block any assets found in the United States that belong to these people. Treasury said the 17 names have...

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...

BERLIN: German federal prosecutors said on Friday they had charged a second Moroccan man suspected of providing support for the Islamic militant group behind the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. Federal prosecutors said in a statement they had charged Abdelghani Mzoudi, a 30-year-old Moroccan, with being an accessory to the murder of 3,066 people and of membership in the al-Qaeda cell based in Hamburg that helped plan the attacks. Mzoudi was detained in October 2002 in Hamburg on suspicion he was among a group of 10 people in the city who supported the September 11 attackers. Prosecutors...

German federal prosecutors charged a Moroccan student with accessory to murder in more than 3,000 cases for his alleged involvement in the plot behind the September 11, 2001 attacks.Abdelghani Mzoudi, 30, is believed to have been linked to the so-called al-Qaeda cell in the northern port city of Hamburg that produced three of the 19 suicide hijackers, including presumed ringleader Mohammed Atta.Arrested on October 10, 2002 in Hamburg, Mzoudi was previously only charged with supporting a terrorist organization.The first person worldwide to be convicted of connection with the attacks on New York and Washington, Moroccan student Mounir El-Motassadeq, was...

<p>BERLIN — A second suspected helper of the Germany-based Sept. 11 hijackers will soon be charged with supporting a terrorist organization, the country's federal prosecutor said in remarks released Saturday.</p> <p>Abdelghani Mzoudi, a 29-year-old Moroccan, will be charged "in the coming weeks on suspicion of supporting the Hamburg cell" which included three of the pilots of the hijacked planes, Federal Prosecutor Kay Nehm said in a magazine interview.</p>

BERLIN (AP) — A second suspected helper of the Germany-based Sept. 11 hijackers will soon be charged with supporting a terrorist organization, the country's federal prosecutor said in remarks released Saturday. Abdelghani Mzoudi, a 29-year-old Moroccan, will be charged ``in the coming weeks on suspicion of supporting the Hamburg cell'' which included three of the pilots of the hijacked planes, Federal Prosecutor Kay Nehm said in a magazine interview. Nehm's spokeswoman, Frauke Scheuten, said Mzoudi would be tried in the Hamburg state court where the first Sept. 11 suspect to face trial anywhere in the world was convicted Wednesday of...

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.