Re-trial of 9/11 suspect opens in Germany

The re-trial of the only September 11 terror suspect ever convicted opened today with the United States under pressure to allow testimony by alleged key al-Qaida operatives in its custody.

Mounir el Motassadeq, a 30-year-old Moroccan charged with aiding the three Hamburg-based suicide hijackers, won a new trial in March after a German appeals court ruled his first one unfair because the US-held witnesses did not testify.