Moroccan Mounir El Motassadeq is scheduled to be retried in Germany on terrorism charges related to 9/11. His lawyer now plans to argue that the charges should be dismissed because of the likelihood that information from Ramzi Binalshibh, which the Government intends to introduce at trial, was obtained through torture by U.S. personnel:

Key evidence in the planned retrial of a September 11 suspect in Germany was probably obtained by U.S. authorities under torture, his lawyer alleged on Wednesday as he called for the case to be thrown out. Lawyer Josef Graessle-Muenscher said he would use the torture charge to press for the case against Moroccan Mounir El Motassadeq to be dropped as soon as the retrial gets under way in Hamburg next Tuesday.

...The German court case revolves around Ramzi bin al-Shaibah, a captured al Qaeda leader who knew Motassadeq in Hamburg. Both were part of a circle of Arab students there which included Mohamed Atta, Marwan al-Shehhi and Ziad Jarrah, three of the suicide hijackers who led the attacks of September 11, 2001. Germany has asked the United States to provide information from the interrogation of bin al-Shaibah, who was captured in Pakistan in 2002, which could help secure a conviction in the Motassadeq trial.

....Motassadeq became the first person anywhere to be convicted in connection with September 11 when he was sentenced to 15 years' jail in 2003 for aiding and abetting several thousand murders and belonging to a terrorist organization.

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