Trial set to begin for second September 11 suspect

GERMANY launches the second trial of a suspected September 11 plotter on Thursday in a case expected to provide further insight into the Hamburg al-Qaida cell that led the hijacked airliner attacks on US cities.

Moroccan Abdelghani Mzoudi, 30, who shared an apartment with some of the suicide hijackers in Hamburg, is charged with 3,066 counts of aiding and abetting murder and membership of a terrorist organisation.

If found guilty, Mzoudi faces the same 15-year jail term to which fellow Moroccan Mounir El Motassadeq was sentenced in February for his part in the plot.