Germany retrial for 9/11 suspect

A man accused of a role in the plot to attack the US on 11 September 2001 is going on trial for the second time.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3550560.stm

Mounir al-Motassadek's original conviction was overturned by the German supreme court in March, because the US barred a key witness from testifying.

It is still not clear if the US has changed its approach this time.

Before his retrial in Hamburg on Tuesday, his lawyers argued that the witness, Ramzi Binalshibh, may have been tortured in US custody.

Mr Motassadek, 30, a Moroccan, was previously convicted and sentenced to 15 years in prison for helping the three suicide hijackers based in Hamburg.

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Before his conviction was quashed, he was the only person to have been found guilty in connection with 11 September attacks.

But in March the verdict was quashed on the grounds that Yemeni national Ramzi Binalshibh did not give evidence.

The crucial witness is a suspected al-Qaeda lieutenant, who boasted in a television interview that he masterminded the 11 September plot, and has been held by the US since he was arrested in Pakistan in September 2002.

But Washington refused to provide access to him, or transcripts of his interrogations, during the first trial process.

Prosecution lawyers said they hoped Washington would allow its prisoner to appear in court via video-link, along with another alleged senior al-Qaeda figure, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

Mr Motassadek's lawyer Josef Graessle-Muenscher said he will argue as the trial opens that the case should be dropped.

"If the torture allegations are true, the trial can no longer continue," he said.

Mr Motassadek is accused of funding the Hamburg hijackers, Mohamed Atta, Marwan al-Shehhi, and Ziad Jarrah, while they plotted their attacks, and of knowing their plans.

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Mounir al-Motassadek (left) is accused of funding 9/11 plotters

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Ramzi Binalshibh was barred from testifying

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