9/11 prisoner wins German retrial

[ze_dscherman]

A German court has quashed the only conviction made in connection with the 11 September 2001 attacks in the US.

The Federal Criminal Court ruled that the case should be sent back to a lower court "for a new trial and decision" on Moroccan Mounir al-Motassadek.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3531501.stm


Another article from Reuters:

KARLSRUHE, Germany (Reuters) - The only man convicted of helping the September 11 suicide hijackers won the right to a retrial Thursday after a successful appeal at Germany's Supreme Court.

Mounir El Motassadeq, a Moroccan, was sentenced to 15 years in jail in February 2003 for conspiring to murder the nearly 3,000 people who died in the 2001 attacks in the United States and for membership of a terrorist group, a German al Qaeda cell U.S. authorities say led the attacks.

Motassadeq's lawyers had argued new evidence that secured the acquittal last month of his friend and fellow-Moroccan Abdelghani Mzoudi had made Motassadeq's conviction unreliable.

Mzoudi's acquittal hinged on information, passed to the court by German investigators, that neither he nor Motassadeq belonged to a core group of plotters in the city of Hamburg who had advance knowledge of the plans to hijack four airliners and crash them into prominent U.S. landmarks.



http://news.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=4495475§ion=news

[gandalf]

1. Quality of the "official story"

That is another clear signal about the quality of the official explanation model of 9/11. More than two years after the attacks it is still impossible to produce evidence that supports the official version in a trial.

The decision is bound to annoy Mr. Schily, German minister of the interior, who bears some similarities to Mr. Asscroft.

[papau]

2. Mounir el Motassadeq's was ONLY 911 CONVICTION -BUT BUSH PROMISED

He was going to get'em.

Will the media remember all hat - no cattle?