al-Qaeda captives deny 9/11 suspect knew of plot
Captured al-Qaeda leaders have told US interrogators that a Moroccan man on trial in Germany over the September 11 attacks had no knowledge of the attack plans, a Hamburg court was told yesterday.
The US Department of Justice provided the court with summaries from interrogations of Ramzi bin al-Shaibah and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, which could help Mounir El Motassadeq, a Moroccan accused of helping the 2001 suicide hijackers.
Presiding Judge Ernst-Rainer Schudt said: "We have to think about what this means for the trial."
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. The letters, received from the Department of Justice in response to the court's request for information, were read in court by a German translator at the retrial of Motassadeq, accused of plotting the attacks with Mohamed Atta and others.
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