Madrid suspect charged with helping plan 9/11

A MOROCCAN fugitive sought in connection with last month’s Madrid train bombings was indicted yesterday on charges of helping plan the September 11 attacks in New York.

Amer Azizi helped organise a meeting in northeast Spain in July 2001 that key plotters in the World Trade Centre attacks, including suspect suicide pilot Mohamed Atta, used to finalise details, Judge Baltasar Garzon said.

Azizi was initially included in an indictment Garzon handed down in September against Osama bin Laden and 34 other terror suspects. Azizi was charged then with belonging to a terrorist organisation.