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9/11 hijacker friend to be sentenced on Monday

05 Jan 2007 14:14:25 GMT
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HAMBURG, Germany, Jan 5 (Reuters) - A German court will on Monday sentence a Moroccan friend of the Sept. 11 hijackers after he was found guilty last year of being an accessory to mass murder, the court said on Friday.

Mounir El Motassadeq, who faces up to 15 years in prison, appeared in court in Hamburg on Friday in a first hearing.

Germany's top appeals court in Karlsruhe had in November found Motassadeq, a member of a group of radical Arab students in Hamburg, guilty of abetting the murder of 246 passengers and crew who died on four planes that crashed on Sept. 11, 2001.

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