A German court has convicted a Moroccan man of aiding the September 11 suicide hijackers in the first criminal trial associated with those attacks. Mounir El Motassadeq, 28, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for being an accessory to the murder of more than 3000 people in New York and Washington. He was also found guilty of membership of a terrorist organisation.
story at Radio Netherlands
{how much attention will this get in 'America'? the first, as far as I'm aware, prosecution and conviction of anyone connected with 9/11. and it happens in a German court.
but then we're not concerned with 9/11 anymore. we're concerned with Saddam Hussein. 9/11 was more than a year ago, after all.
that was then, this is, uhm....gulp...now.}
{updating that, we have this chirpy bit of current eventuality}:
America is to punish Germany for leading international opposition to a war against Iraq. The US will withdraw all its troops and bases from there and end military and industrial co-operation between the two countries - moves that could cost the Germans billions of euros.
The plan - discussed by Pentagon officials and military chiefs last week on the orders of Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld - is designed 'to harm' the German economy to make an example of the country for what US hawks see as Chancellor Gerhard Schr�der's 'treachery'.
The hawks believe that making an example of Germany will force other countries heavily dependent on US trade to think twice about standing up to America in future.
from The Guardian UK Unlimited 02/16/03
{the spin started four hours too late for even a shred of credibility. "they let him off". as though anyone convicted of anything related to 9/11 should be killed, in fact they should all be killed before they're convicted. in fact they should be killed before we find about them, in fact let's just kill everybody, then we'll know for sure the bad guys are dead. I'm up for that.
the guy who was convicted in Germany was not convicted of planning and executing anything as far as I know. but what freaks Busharon is it comes right on top of their condemnation of all things German. then the filthy Teutons go and spoil everything by being the first legal system to actually prosecute and convict anyone, that's a-n-y-o-n-e, of anything to do with 9/11. well. we can't have that.
it would seem 'America' is being 'governed' by little barking dogs.}
