Second Man Involved in Sept. 11 on Trial in Germany

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Second Man Involved in Sept. 11 on Trial in Germany

A Moroccan student accused of co-plotting Sept. 11 attacks on US cities went on trial in Germany on Thursday.

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A Moroccan student accused of co-plotting Sept. 11 attacks on US cities went on trial in Germany on Thursday.

Prosecutors said Abdel-Ghani Mzoudi, a 30-year-old electrical engineering student from Morocco, is charged with 3,066 counts of aiding and abetting murder, and membership of a terrorist organization.

If found guilty, he faces the same 15-year jail term the state court in the northern city of Hamburg handed another Moroccan, Mounir El Motassadeq, in February for his role in the plot.

Mzoudi is alleged to have financed the cell that is thought to have produced three of the suicide hijackers, including presumed ringleader Mohammed Atta.

Prosecutors say Mzoudi was in Afghanistan in mid-2000 and was briefed on the plot to attack US cities.

He is also accused of arranging accommodation in Hamburg and helping conceal two of the attackers' whereabouts while they pursued flight training in the United States.

"Mzoudi was involved from the very beginning," federal prosecutor Matthias Krauss said.

Mzoudi's lawyers have said he will not be testifying. "There is not a single proof that he knew of the attack plot," said his lawyer Gul Pinar.

The trial, with 125 witnesses due to testify, could last into early 2004.

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