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| German Taxpayers Pay for 9/11 Plotter to Continue Education |
| 2004-08-24 |
| A Moroccan accused of helping the Sept. 11 suicide hijackers, but acquitted by a German court, may continue his university education in Germany, a court ruled on Tuesday. Abdelghani Mzoudi had been charged with aiding and abetting the murder of about 3,000 people and belonging to a terrorist group, the Hamburg cell of al Qaeda that prosecutors say led the attacks. But in February he was acquitted. The court in the northern port city argued it was not convinced of his innocence, but that there was insufficient proof to convict him. Mzoudi is facing a prosecution appeal against the acquittal. A different Hamburg court ruled on Tuesday that Mzoudi must be allowed to continue his education at the publicly-funded Hamburg University of Applied Sciences. He studies information technology and electrical engineering there. The university had attempted to prevent Mzoudi from continuing his studies on the grounds of what it described as his "radical Islamic fundamentalist" beliefs. Mzoudi challenged this in the court, which ruled that his interim grades were the sole criteria for determining his eligibility to continue his education. Mzoudi's friend and countryman Mounir el Motassadeq is the only man to have been convicted over the 2001 attacks. Last year Motassadeq was sentenced to 15 years by the same Hamburg court that acquitted Mzoudi. Earlier this year, Motassadeq won the right to a retrial which is currently under way in Hamburg. Germany wants to deport both Moroccans once all legal proceedings are concluded. The city state of Hamburg argued both posed a "particular danger" to Germany. Three of the Sept. 11 suicide pilots also studied in Hamburg. |
| Posted by:TS(vice girl) |
| #7 ZF = yeah... "He fell." "Yep... fell. Antlion got him. Really big one." "Huge." "Sorry to see him go." "A pity isn't it?" |
| Posted by: eLarson 2004-08-24 11:51:20 PM |
| #6 TGA: So in a few months he'll be on a plane to Morocco. With any luck, the Moroccans will disappear this guy in a sand dune. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2004-08-24 11:47:25 PM |
| #5 TGA, if this happened in the US, I think that the push would be to see the guy's transcript. There are several things that you mihgt find: 1. He is taking no classes or is not showing up to classes becuase they conflict with his activism. In that case the government needs to look at whether it is funding anything worthwhile. 2. He may be a poor student. 3. He may be a straight A student in a WMD curriculum. The govenement would probably not be allowed to release that type fo information. That's what newspapers are good at. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2004-08-24 10:49:55 PM |
| #4 Well, let him enjoy his moment in the sun. There is still the appeal pending. Should this fail he will still be removed from Germany. He won't be able to fight that because German antiterrorist laws say that we can remove aliens who are a threat to Germany and training in a terror camp in Afghanistan certainly qualifies. So in a few months he'll be on a plane to Morocco. You take over from there, ok? |
| Posted by: True German Ally 2004-08-24 10:06:46 PM |
| #3 Go ahead, TGA - we could use some ejimakashun. Would the words be more interesting than "dicker schweinhund"? ;-) |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2004-08-24 9:33:31 PM |
| #2 So now he is free to spread his radical anti-german anti-western dogmas and will be seen as a "hero" having beat the system. I do not blame the German people TGA. I blame the secular huimanist judical system. That said one must remember the German court system was used by the NAZI party to legalize it's murderous reign of terror and will not do any thing which might be a repeat of that past evil, even if it makes errors. That is a deeper perspective of it's unwillingness to convict this little punk jihadist. He will meet a sad end I am afarid anyway. What goes around come around, though not as quickly as we might like. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-08-24 9:16:55 PM |
| #1 I better don't comment on these judges or you'll learn an interesting set of German curses. |
| Posted by: True German Ally 2004-08-24 9:02:57 PM |