HAMBURG, AUGUST 11 Captured Al Qaeda leaders have told US interrogators that a Moroccan man on trial in Germany over the 9/11 attacks had no knowledge of the plans, a Hamburg court was told on Wednesday.
The US Department of Justice provided the court with summaries from interrogations of Ramzi Bin Al-Shaibah and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, which could help Mounir El Motassadeq, accused of helping the 9/11 hijackers.
Judge Ernst-Rainer Schudt said: ‘‘We have to think about what this means for the trial.’’
According to the letters, Bin Al-Shaibah said he and the three Hamburg-based suicide pilots, including Mohamed Atta, were the only members of an Arab student circle in Hamburg who knew of the plot. Bin Al-Shaibah added that although Motassadeq had transferred money on behalf of one of the plotters, he did not know for what purpose.
Sheikh Mohammed said Bin Al-Shaibah had not told Motassadeq of the details for security reasons. Bin Al-Shaibah named more than a dozen people who, he said, had no knowledge of and did not take part in any part of the 9/11 plan. This included Zacarias Moussaoui, a suspect being held in the US.
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