9/11 suspect acquitted on 3,000 accessory to murder charges

A German court in Hamburg today convicted a Moroccan man suspected of helping the September 11 hijackers of membership in a terrorist organisation and sentenced him to seven years in prison.

Presiding Judge Ernst-Rainer Schudt, announcing the conviction of Mounir el Motassadeq after a year-long retrial, did not immediately explain the Hamburg state court’s reasons for the decision.