Court Upholds Acquittal of Suspect in 9/11 Attacks
A German appeals court upheld the acquittal of a Sept. 11 suspect, but he must leave the country within two weeks because his visa is no longer valid, an immigration official said.
Abdelghani Mzoudi, a Moroccan, was acquitted in 2004 of charges that he helped hijackers Mohamed Atta, Marwan Al-Shehhi and Ziad Samir Jarrah in the plot to attack the United States.
Testimony showed that Mzoudi was friends with the hijackers.
But Hamburg state court judges ruled that the prosecution had failed to prove he knew about their plot.
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