Prosecutors seek maximum jail term for Al-Qaida plot accused

Philip Blenkinsop, Hamburg

Mounir El Motassadeq is charged with being an accessory to 3,045 murders in New York and Washington on September 11, 2001 and of belonging to the Hamburg-based al-Qaida cell said to have led the suicide assault.

Prosecutors summed up their case in four-and-a-half hours yesterday, saying the 28-year-old Moroccan student was aware of the hijackers’ plans and provided logistical back-up, including money transfers, from Germany.