Police charge second Moroccan over 9/11

GERMAN federal prosecutors yesterday said they had charged a second Moroccan man suspected of providing support for the Islamic militant group behind the September 11, 2001 attacks on the US.

Federal prosecutors said they had charged Abdelghani Mzoudi, a 30-year-old Moroccan, with being an accessory to the murder of 3,066 people and of membership in the al-Qaida cell based in Hamburg that helped plan the attacks.

Mzoudi was detained in October, 2002 in Hamburg on suspicion he was among a group of 10 people in the city who supported the September 11 attackers. Prosecutors in Germany are investigating about 100 people on suspicion of aiding extremist groups.