April 9, 2004
German politicians and police are blaming U.S. officials for this week's release of Mounir el-Motassadeq, the only man convicted in the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks in the United States, pending a retrial.
Klaus Buss, the interior minister in the state of Schleswig-Holstein, said Thursday in a radio interview that U.S. officials had refused to allow terror suspect Ramzi Binalshibh to appear before the court in Germany and thus had “provided the essential cause“ for the Moroccan's release.
And the president of Germany's police union, Konrad Freiberg, said the United States' failure to share intelligence was the main reason for the Hamburg court's decision to release Motassadeq on Wednesday. He also called the decision a significant setback in the fight against terror.
Motassadeq's release came in response to a decision by a German appeals court last month. The Federal Court of Justice threw out the conviction because the judges in Hamburg had not been able to hear Binalshibh's testimony.
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Commentary:U.S. authorities are refusing to cooperate with foreign prosecutions of alleged Sept. 11 terrorists.
And apparently, to much of the U.S. news media, this is not newsworthy ...
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Motassadeq was sentenced in 2003 to 15 years in prison on 3,000 accounts of accessory to murder.
A Hamburg court spokeswoman said the retrial was expected to begin on July 16.
Until then, Motassadeq is not allowed to leave Hamburg and must contact police twice a week. |
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In February, another suspected member of the Hamburg terror cell connected to the U.S. attacks, Abdelghani Mzoudi, was acquitted for the same reasons.
Motassadeq was sentenced in 2003 to 15 years in prison on 3,000 accounts of accessory to murder. A Hamburg court spokeswoman said the retrial was expected to begin on July 16. Until then, Motassadeq is not allowed to leave Hamburg and must contact police twice a week. Motassadeq's lawyer, Josef Gräßle-Münscher, said the 30-year-old student wanted to continue his electrical engineering studies at the Technical University Hamburg-Harburg. But the university announced on Thursday that he would not be allowed to enroll.
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Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Weekly [Frankfurt, Germany]
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