9/11 defendant's lawyer critically injured

The lawyer defending an accused accomplice of the September 11 suicide pilots at his Hamburg retrial has been critically injured in a motorbike accident, throwing into question how the case will proceed.

Josef Graessle-Muenscher suffered life-threatening injuries when he crashed his motorbike into the side of a car that swerved in front of him as he was trying to pass on a road near Hamburg, police said.