Al-Qaida suspect denies charges

AL-QAIDA’S suspected leader in Spain denied arranging a last-minute meeting between one of the suicide pilots and a key planner of the September 11 attacks, calling the 2001 strikes “terrible savagery” in testimony yesterday.

“I don’t know these people,” said Imad Yarkas, who is charged with helping to organise the 2001 attacks, referring to suicide pilot Mohamed Atta and coordinator Ramzi bin al-Shibh.

“Not once in my life have I been with them,” he said.