Spain indicts eight on 9/11 terror charges

A Spanish judge indicted eight people on terrorism charges today, saying they had provided logistical help and false documents for suspects in the 9/11 attacks in the United States.

The indictment was released by Spain’s leading terror investigator, Judge Baltasar Garzon.

It said the eight had provided logistics and counterfeit documents for suspects including Ramzi Binalshibh – in US custody since being captured in Pakistan a year after the attacks on New York and Washington.

He is believed to have been the Hamburg cell’s main contact with Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida network.

The eight were named as Reda Zerroug, Redouane Zenimi, Samir Mahdjoub, Mohamed Ayat, Hedi Ben Youssef Boudhiba and Khaled Madani, Tahar Ezirouali and Spaniard Francisco Garcia Gomez.

Five of the eight are in jail in Spain while Garzon issued an international arrest order for Boudhiba and Ezirouali.

Garzon said Boudhiba, a Tunisian, is in a British prison awaiting extradition. He was arrested in Liverpool last August.

He said Boudhiba travelled from Hamburg to Istanbul on September 3, 2001 along with a man named Ahmed Taleb, a member of the Hamburg cell blamed for carrying out the Sept. 11 attacks.

The alleged leader of the cell was suspected suicide pilot Mohamed Atta.

Investigators said Spain, along with Germany, was a major staging ground for the 9/11 attacks.