Article: German federal court hears appeal of Sept. 11 suspect's acquittal

DAVID RISING, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
05-12-2005
Dateline: BERLIN
German prosecutors are petitioning a federal court Thursday for a new trial for a Moroccan Sept. 11 suspect acquitted of aiding the Hamburg-based suicide hijackers.

Abdelghani Mzoudi, 32, was acquitted in February 2004 for lack of evidence. He had faced more than 3,000 counts of accessory to murder and membership in a terrorist organization for allegedly providing logistical support to hijackers Mohamed Atta, Marwan al-Shehhi and Ziad Jarrah.

Testimony heard during his trial established that Mzoudi trained at the same al-Qaida camps as the hijackers and was close friends with them in Hamburg, but Hamburg state ...

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