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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...