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Razorguns
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Nice. They're getting out on "technicalities". The world's *real tough* on terrorism huh?
Cheat on your taxes and receive more jail time than training in an al qaida camp and lending support to terrorists.
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http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/TorontoSun/News/2004/04/08/413091.html
9/11 convict walks free
EVIDENCE TOO WEAK, AL-QAIDA TESTIMONY MISSING: JUDGES
By AP
HAMBURG, Germany -- The only Sept. 11 suspect ever convicted walked out of jail yesterday smiling and laughing, freed less than 2 1/2 years into a 15-year sentence after judges ruled the evidence was too weak to hold him pending a retrial. Mounir el Motassadeq, 30, whose conviction on charges of aiding the Sept. 11 plotters was overturned last month, seemed euphoric as he left the Hamburg court building with two friends and his lawyer. He said nothing but laughed as reporters peppered him with questions.
The Moroccan, who had been behind bars since his November 2001 arrest, headed home to his apartment in a Hamburg suburb to be reunited with his wife and two children.
Explaining their decision, the judges said evidence for the main charges against el Motassadeq -- more than 3,000 counts of accessory to murder -- was no longer "urgent" because they lack testimony from an al-Qaida suspect in U.S. custody.
REPORT TO POLICE
El Motassadeq was ordered to stay in Hamburg and report to police twice a week.
The accessory to murder charges remain in force, along with a charge of membership in a terrorist organization. But freeing el Motassadeq was a fresh blow to Sept. 11 prosecutions after the same court acquitted his friend and fellow Moroccan, Abdelghani Mzoudi, of identical charges in February.
The court's decision infuriated Americans whose relatives died in the Sept. 11 attacks. Stephen Push said he remains convinced of el Motassadeq's guilt.
"We don't want to see people who are involved in a conspiracy to kill our loved ones go free," said Push, a founder of the New York-based Families of Sept. 11 group.
El Motassadeq has acknowledged training at an al-Qaida camp in Afghanistan and being friends with Hamburg-based suicide hijackers Mohamed Atta, Marwan al-Shehhi and Ziad Jarrah.
Cheat on your taxes and receive more jail time than training in an al qaida camp and lending support to terrorists.
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http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/TorontoSun/News/2004/04/08/413091.html
9/11 convict walks free
EVIDENCE TOO WEAK, AL-QAIDA TESTIMONY MISSING: JUDGES
By AP
HAMBURG, Germany -- The only Sept. 11 suspect ever convicted walked out of jail yesterday smiling and laughing, freed less than 2 1/2 years into a 15-year sentence after judges ruled the evidence was too weak to hold him pending a retrial. Mounir el Motassadeq, 30, whose conviction on charges of aiding the Sept. 11 plotters was overturned last month, seemed euphoric as he left the Hamburg court building with two friends and his lawyer. He said nothing but laughed as reporters peppered him with questions.
The Moroccan, who had been behind bars since his November 2001 arrest, headed home to his apartment in a Hamburg suburb to be reunited with his wife and two children.
Explaining their decision, the judges said evidence for the main charges against el Motassadeq -- more than 3,000 counts of accessory to murder -- was no longer "urgent" because they lack testimony from an al-Qaida suspect in U.S. custody.
REPORT TO POLICE
El Motassadeq was ordered to stay in Hamburg and report to police twice a week.
The accessory to murder charges remain in force, along with a charge of membership in a terrorist organization. But freeing el Motassadeq was a fresh blow to Sept. 11 prosecutions after the same court acquitted his friend and fellow Moroccan, Abdelghani Mzoudi, of identical charges in February.
The court's decision infuriated Americans whose relatives died in the Sept. 11 attacks. Stephen Push said he remains convinced of el Motassadeq's guilt.
"We don't want to see people who are involved in a conspiracy to kill our loved ones go free," said Push, a founder of the New York-based Families of Sept. 11 group.
El Motassadeq has acknowledged training at an al-Qaida camp in Afghanistan and being friends with Hamburg-based suicide hijackers Mohamed Atta, Marwan al-Shehhi and Ziad Jarrah.
