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| Released Hamburg Cell Members Under Surveillance |
| 2004-04-17 |
| ... A Hamburg security official said the decision to retry [recently released Hamburg terrorist cell member Mounir el] Motassadeq could create the impression among Islamists that German courts and security services are not as rigorous as those in other countries. The official also said that Mzoudi and Motassadeq will now join the approximately 200 Islamists in Hamburg that the security services currently have under observation. Several German politicians, upset with their courts’ rulings, are looking into having both [another recently released Hamburg terrorist cell member Abdelghani] Mzoudi and Motassadeq deported. The Hamburg University for Applied Sciences may have helped in these efforts, when it rejected Mzoudi’s application to continue his studies last February, thus jeopardizing his student visa for Germany. The university’s reason for the rejection was that Mzoudi had studied for too many semesters (12 to be exact) without result. So even if the German courts should eventually free both Moroccans, their legal problems will probably only just have begun. Removal from Germany to their native land could result in an American-friendly Moroccan government, with terrorism problems of its own, quickly extraditing Mzoudi and Motassadeq to the United States, where maximum sentences for 9/11 conspiracy convictions exceed 15 years. |
| Posted by:Mike Sylwester |
| #2 Mzoudi won a couple of weeks ago in the Administrative Court that he must be re-instated at the University. The University continues to refuse him entry and went into appeal. |
| Posted by: da German 2004-04-17 7:19:10 PM |
| #1 No wonder they planned 9/11 in Germany. |
| Posted by: TS 2004-04-17 2:47:08 PM |