A German court yesterday convicted a Moroccan student of belonging to the al-Qaeda cell responsible for the attacks on America of September 11, 2001, but acquitted him of direct involvement in the murder of nearly 3,000 people.<\/p>\n
Mounir al-Motassadeq, 31, was sentenced to seven years in prison for membership of a terrorist organisation, but the judge ruled that the more serious charges were not proven, in part because of a failure by the US authorities to co-operate with the prosecution.<\/p>\n
In a three-hour judgment, read out before a court in Hamburg, Judge Ernst-Rainer Schudt said that the US Justice Department had refused to co-operate fully with the German court.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153How are we supposed to do justice to our task when important documents are withheld from us?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the judge asked. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Wonder what can’t be handed over to Germany, even to prosecute a member of the cell that planned 9\/11? You don’t need to be a conspiracy theorist anymore to sense the problem. America, Sunday Times Judge berates US failures as 9\/11 supporter is convicted A German court yesterday convicted a Moroccan student of belonging to the al-Qaeda cell responsible for the attacks on America of September 11, 2001, but acquitted him of direct involvement in the murder of nearly 3,000…<\/p>\n
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