GERMANY: MOROCCAN ABDELGHANI MZOUDI SUSPECTED OF HELPING HAMBURG-BASED AL QAEDA CELL REMANDED IN CUSTODY

Record ID: 648173

  • Title: GERMANY: MOROCCAN ABDELGHANI MZOUDI SUSPECTED OF HELPING HAMBURG-BASED AL QAEDA CELL REMANDED IN CUSTODY
  • Date: 12th October 2002
  • Summary: (EU) KARLSRUHE,GERMANY (OCTOBER 11, 2002) (REUTERS) 1. SLV FEDERAL COURT BUILDING; SCU SIGN; SCU BARBED WIRE (3 SHOTS) 0.20 2. MV POLICEMEN TAKE WEAPONS FROM CAR BY SECURITY 0.32 3. MV MZOUDI TAKEN TO CAR; MV MZOUDI IN CAR; SLV MOTORCADE DRIVE N THROUGH GATE; SLV FEDERAL COURT BUILDING WITH POLICEMEN AT GATE (3 SHOTS) 1.28 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 27th October 2002 12:00
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  • Location: KARLSRUHE, GERMANY
  • Country: Germany
  • Reuters ID: LVA28HLPMGF7ZT86UV7JJ5JBE7QV
  • Story Text: A Moroccan arrested on suspicion of helping a
    Hamburg-based al Qaeda cell that led the September 11 attacks
    was remanded in custody, German prosecutors said.

    Police arrested 29-year-old Abdelghani Mzoudi, who
    shared an apartment with several of the suicide hijackers in
    the northern port city of Hamburg, in a dawn raid on Thursday
    (October 10) on suspicion of his having links to Osama bin
    Laden's al Qaeda network.

    He is also suspected of providing logistical help to
    Mohammed Atta and other hijackers involved in the attacks on
    New York and Washington that killed nearly 3,000 people.

    Mzoudi is the second suspected al Qaeda member to have
    been arrested in Germany. Mounir El Motassadeq, a 28-year-old
    arrested in late November on suspicion of being part of the
    Hamburg cell, is due to go on trial later this month.

    Atta and other leading hijackers were students in Hamburg
    before taking flying lessons in the United States and carrying
    out the attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center and hit
    the Pentagon.

    Prosecutors say Mzoudi had had close contact for years
    with members of the Hamburg cell, which as well as Atta
    included two other hijackers who died in the attacks, Marwan
    Al Shehhi and Ziad Jarrah, as well as key al Qaeda suspect
    Ramzi Binalshibh, arrested in Pakistan last month.

    Prosecutors have said there is no hard evidence Mzoudi was
    also been a member of that group, but he could still be
    charged as an accessory to murder.


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