Hamburg Al-Qaeda Trial Opens

World | August 14, 2003, Thursday // 00:00

The 30-year-old Moroccan-born defendant, Abdelghani Mzoudi, is the second person to be tried in Germany in connection with the attacks on the United States. He was arrested in Hamburg last October, and is charged with 3,066 counts of aiding and abetting murder and membership of a terrorist organisation. The prosecution case will focus on Mr Mzoudi's friendship with Mohammed Atta, the presumed ringleader of the hijackers, and the other members of the Hamburg cell. The defendant lived in Mohammed Atta's flat in Hamburg and he also signed Atta's will.

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