Acquitted 9/11 Suspect Returns From Germany
Abdelghani Mzoudi, sent home by German authorities after being acquitted of aiding the Sept. 11 hijackers, fell into the arms of his sobbing mother at the airport in Agadir, Morocco.
He thanked God, the German legal system and his German lawyers.
He said he never should have been charged with helping three of the suicide hijackers plot the attacks on the United States while all lived in Hamburg.
“They arrested me just because I knew the guys. I wasn’t the only one who knew them in the whole of Hamburg,” the soft-spoken Mzoudi said in his first comments to the media since his arrest in October 2002. “All Arabs knew each other.”
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