Wednesday, August 11, 2004

Well, well, well

Could this have anything to do with why the U.S. had been refusing to provide any information in the German trail of an accused 9/11 operative?

HAMBURG - Lawyers for 11 September terror suspect Mounir El Motassadeq said Wednesday they expect an acquittal for their client in the wake of evidence provided by the US Justice Department asserting that he was not a member of the cell which planned the attacks.

...The stunning revelations came on the second day of Motassadeq's retrial on charges of being an accessory to the deaths of the more than 3,000 victims of the 9/11 attacks.

Motassadeq is the only man ever convicted in connection with the terror attacks. The Hamburg court sentenced him to 15 years in prison in early 2003 for being an accomplice in the murder of 3,066 persons in the September 11 attacks.

But in March 2004, Germany's Federal Supreme Court in Karlsruhe quashed the conviction on a technicality and ordered a new trial, saying essential evidence had been withheld by the US State Department.
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