A senior planner of the September 11 2001 attacks said the Hamburg al-Qaida cell was smaller than investigators believed, consisting only of himself and three of the suicide pilots, a German court was told in the first public release of statements by suspects in US custody.

A key al-Qaida captive in US custody told interrogators that a Moroccan on trial for helping the Hamburg-based September 11 suicide pilots had no knowledge of the plot, according to a summary read out in court in Hamburg today.

The re-trial of the only September 11 terror suspect ever convicted opened today with the United States under pressure to allow testimony by alleged key al-Qaida operatives in its custody.

THE only September 11 suspect ever convicted was freed by a German court yesterday pending the outcome of his retrial on charges of aiding the suicide pilots.

The only September 11 suspect ever convicted was freed by a German court today after his conviction for aiding the suicide pilots was thrown out last month.

The retrial of the man charged with helping the September 11 terror bombers may collapse, it emerged in Hamburg today.

A SEPTEMBER 11 suspect whose conviction for helping the Hamburg-based suicide hijackers was overturned has asked to be released from prison pending a retrial.

A GERMAN court yesterday overturned the world's only conviction for the September 11 attacks and ordered a retrial for a Moroccan found guilty last year of aiding the Hamburg cell of suicide hijackers.

A German court today overturned the world’s only conviction for the September 11 attacks and ordered a retrial for a Moroccan found guilty last year of aiding the Hamburg cell of suicide hijackers.

A MOROCCAN who was found guilty of helping the September 11 suicide hijackers told a court yesterday his conviction was “unjust” and denied that an al-Qaida cell ever existed in Hamburg.

The second alleged September 11 terrorist to face trial anywhere appeared in court today in Hamburg, Germany.

A MOROCCAN student was yesterday convicted of more than 3,000 counts of accessory to murder for helping suicide pilots in the September 11 attacks on the United States, ending the first trial connected to the suicide hijackings.

A Moroccan student was today convicted of being an accessory in the murder of more than 3,000 September 11 victims and helping support the Hamburg-based terror cell.

A verdict was expected today in the first trial of a suspect in the September 11 terror attacks against New York and Washington.

OSAMA BIN LADEN told followers before the September 11 attacks “we must strike at America” and there would be “thousands of dead”, a witness at the trial of an alleged plot member testified yesterday.

Osama bin Laden told followers before the September 11 attacks that “we must strike at America” and there would be “thousands of dead,” a witness at the trial of an alleged plot member testified today.

A Moroccan student accused of aiding the Hamburg terrorist cell involved in the September 11 attacks on the US went to Afghanistan in 2000 and attended a training camp there, his lawyer said yesterday.

A 28-year-old Moroccan student was today going on trial in Germany, charged with aiding the Hamburg terrorist cell involved in the September 11 attacks on the United States, which included lead suicide hijacker Mohammed Atta.

A Moroccan man was arrested in Hamburg today on suspicion that he provided logistical support to the cell of September 11 hijackers led by Mohamed Atta, German federal prosecutors said.

A SEPTEMBER 11 hijacker vowed as far back as 1999 that thousands would die when planes crashed into the World Trade Center, a German prosecutor said yesterday.

The Hamburg al-Qaida cell that included three of the September 11 hijackers planned an attack on the World Trade Centre as early as April or May 2000, a German prosecutor said today.

Federal prosecutors today filed charges against Mounir El Motassadeq, the only September 11 suspect in custody in Germany, where several of the key hijackers were based.