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در آينده جهان
خواهد بود.
9/11 suspect ''was codes expert''
A surprise witness has testified
that a man accused
of aiding the 11 September hijackers was an al-Qaeda code expert.
The witness, who claims to be a former Iranian
spy, was called at
the last minute, just as the German court was to give its verdict on Abdelghani Mzoudi.
He appeared under the alias Hamid Reza Zakeri,
saying he got his
information from a "very prominent" person in
Mr Mzoudi, a Moroccan, is charged with being an accessory to murder, and with
membership of a terrorist organisation.
I know from my source
that in the 11 September incident he was al-Qaeda''s middleman for receiving codes
Witness using the alias Hamid
Reza Zakeri
The prosecution case appeared to be
crumbling in December
when new evidence from an unidentified informant in the
The judge said the evidence could exonerate him
of the charges
related to the
However, prosecutors say it is unreliable, and
have asked for
the maximum sentence of 15 years in jail.
Disguise
The new witness said Mr Mzoudi spent three
months in 1997 training in
an al-Qaeda camp in
"I know from my source that in the 11 September incident he was al-Qaeda''s middleman for receiving codes," he
said, quoted by the
AP news agency.
Presiding judge Klaus Ruehle tried to get more information on Mr Zakeri''s source,
but he said only that he was "very solid"
and "very prominent".
Wearing dark glasses and a beard, he refused to
give details
about himself.
He also gave oblique answers to some questions, prompting the judge to accuse him
of being "deliberately unclear".
He repeated claims that he tried to warn the
The new evidence that led to Mr Mzoudi being
released from custody
last month came in the form of a statement from an unidentified informant saying that there were
only four people in the
The source was not named but the court said it
believed it was Mr
Binalshibh.
Mr Mzoudi is only the
second person anywhere in the world to be tried over the attacks.
Moroccan Mounir al-Motassadek was jailed in
The court which convicted Motassadek
heard that he was a
member of the
He was jailed for 15 years, but formally
appealed against his
conviction on Thursday.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/europe/3444935.stm
Published: 2004/01/30
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