Mzoudi Acquitted!

[gandalf]

That means: The second trial against a 9/11 suspect worldwide ended without conviction; only one (Motassadeq) is (still) in jail.

Thursday?s verdict could have ramifications for the appeal of the first ever verdict related to the Sept. 11 attacks. Last February, the same Hamburg court had sentenced Mounir El Motassadeq to 15 years in prison for his role in plotting the attacks.
http://www.dw-world.de/english/0,3367,1430_A_1105350_1_A,00.html

German officials have already said they plan to deport Abdelghani Mzoudi to his home country. (see source above). What will happen to him then? Will the US catch him, like Binalshibh?

[Seldona]

1. Indeed.

http://www.dw-world.de/english/0,3367,1430_A_1105350_1_A,00.html

[gandalf]

2. NY Times link

A Moroccan man accused of helping the September 11 suicide hijackers was acquitted by a German court Thursday.

Abdelghani Mzoudi, 31, had been charged in Germany's second major 9/11 trial with aiding and abetting the murder of several thousand people and being a member of a terrorist organization, the Hamburg cell of al Qaeda.

The court pronounced its verdict despite a last-minute bid by lawyers for victims' families to delay it, citing alleged new evidence linked to the case of accused September 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui in the United States....The court said at the time that without access to bin al-Shaibah, it had no way of deciding the reliability of the evidence....In both the Moussaoui and the Mzoudi cases, defense lawyers have sought access to testimony from captured al Qaeda leaders which they believe could help exonerate the defendants. The U.S. government has refused to grant such access on national security grounds.

BBC Link

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Even more than two years after the attacks it seems impossible to produce evidence that is accepted by a court. Is it possible that there are some huge inconsistencies in the official version?

[Snappy]

3. Hmmm.........

"The U.S. government has refused to grant such access on national security grounds."

The less defense the better..

[dArKeR]

4. September 11 suspect cleared

http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1479427,00.html