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Released Hamburg Cell Members Under Surveillance
... A Hamburg security official said the decision to retry [recently released Hamburg terrorist cell member Mounir el] Motassadeq could create the impression among Islamists that German courts and security services are not as rigorous as those in other countries. The official also said that Mzoudi and Motassadeq will now join the approximately 200 Islamists in Hamburg that the security services currently have under observation.Several German politicians, upset with their courtsâ rulings, are looking into having both [another recently released Hamburg terrorist cell member Abdelghani] Mzoudi and Motassadeq deported. The Hamburg University for Applied Sciences may have helped in these efforts, when it rejected Mzoudiâs application to continue his studies last February, thus jeopardizing his student visa for Germany. The universityâs reason for the rejection was that Mzoudi had studied for too many semesters (12 to be exact) without result. So even if the German courts should eventually free both Moroccans, their legal problems will probably only just have begun. Removal from Germany to their native land could result in an American-friendly Moroccan government, with terrorism problems of its own, quickly extraditing Mzoudi and Motassadeq to the United States, where maximum sentences for 9/11 conspiracy convictions exceed 15 years. Posted by: Mike Sylwester 2004-04-17 |
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