A Moroccan charged with aiding the Hamburg al-Qaida cell that included three of the Sept. 11 hijackers can remain free while his trial continues, a court announced Tuesday, rejecting prosecutors' request to return the suspect to custody.
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The Hamburg state court freed Abdelghani Mzoudi Dec. 11 after German federal investigators presented records of comments believed to have been made by Sept. 11 suspect Ramzi Bin al-shibh. It said only four people in Hamburg knew of the attack plot - and Mzoudi was not among them. Prosecutors lost a federal appeal against the decision Friday. On Tuesday, the Hamburg court said it had denied their second request to re-arrest Mzoudi, made after a federal agent testified last week that German authorities have more evidence against him. A court statement said the suspicions against Mzoudi remain not serious enough to warrant custody. |