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--- Begin Message ----Caveat Lector- Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't FitTerror Trials, US Secrecy and the Press [Yesterday's mainstream news was full of reports about this retrial. Most reported early in the day that the 38-year-old son of a woman killed in the Twin Towers on 9/11 was in attendance, furious at comments by the defense about torture at Guantanamo. The defense attorney was referring to the fact that the US had refused originally to provide witnesses who were in their custody to the original trial, on grounds of security, which was the reason for the original conviction being overturned. Now, he said, the whole proceeding was mired in "a swamp of toture," so that anything witnesses said (even if the US agreed to provide them) would be unreliable since they'd been held incommunicado and without charges in deplorable conditions at Guantanamo for more than two years. Later in the day the US issued a statement that they will STILL not permit witnesses held at Guantanamo to testify, they will not even provide transcripts of interrogations of these potential witnesses, they will not permit interrogators to testify, but they were willing to provide censored portions of transcripts and summaries of interrogations. The defense, obviously, considers these totally inadequate. Readers of the mainstream press could be forgiven for confusion about this trial. The New York Times headline said "US to Provide Evidence" to German Court. The Washington Post headline said "US Refuses to Provide Intelligence Evidence" to the trial. It's anyone's guess if this trial will end any more conclusively than the first.--NY Transfer] sent by Walter Lippmann (cubanews) Only Convicted Sept. 11 Suspect's German Retrial Opens DOW JONES NEWSWIRES August 10, 2004 4:00 a.m. HAMBURG (AP)--The retrial of the only suspect in the Sept. 11 attacks on the U.S. ever convicted opened Tuesday with the U.S. under pressure to allow testimony by alleged key al-Qaida operatives in its custody. Mounir el Motassadeq, a 30-year-old Moroccan charged with aiding the three Hamburg-based suicide hijackers, won a new trial in March after a German appeals court ruled his first one unfair because the U.S.-held witnesses did not testify. El Motassadeq, who denies the charges, was released from prison in April when the Hamburg state court decided there was no longer sufficient suspicion that he was guilty of more than 3,000 counts of accessory to murder to hold him pending retrial. His conviction on those charges and for membership in a terrorist group were overturned by the appeals court, making the quest for testimony from the witnesses -Ramzi Binalshibh and Khalid Shaikh Mohammed - critical to Germany's second attempt to convict him. Binalshibh, a Yemeni, is believed to have been the Hamburg cell's key contact with Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida organization. Mohammed is thought to be the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks. El Motassadeq smiled but said nothing as he entered the court Tuesday. His lawyer said before the retrial opened that he would maintain his client's innocence when the retrial opens, then ask the court to drop the proceedings on the grounds that past experience shows el Motassadeq will not get a fair trial. Lawyer Josef Graessle-Muenscher told The Associated Press he will argue that torture "underlies the interrogation system of the United States," making any evidence from Binalshibh or Mohammed inadmissible even if it is provided. He cited reports from prisoners released from U.S. military detention at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba , and the policy of holding Taliban and al-Qaida suspects without giving them the usual rights of prisoners of war set out in the Geneva Conventions. The U.S. Department of Justice refused to allow even transcripts of the two men's interrogations to be admitted as evidence in el Motassadeq's trial. Lack of their testimony also played a large role in the February acquittal in the same court of el Motassadeq's friend and fellow Moroccan Abdelghani Mzoudi, who faced identical charges. But now, German prosecutors say they are confident they will be receive more information from the U.S. for the retrial. "We have made it clear to the United States that we depend on being able to hear Ramzi Binalshibh and Khalid Shaikh Mohammed as witnesses," chief federal prosecutor Kay Nehm was quoted as saying in this week's Focus magazine. El Motassadeq is accused of helping pay tuition and other bills for members of the Hamburg al-Qaida cell, which included suicide hijackers Mohamed Atta, Marwan al-Shehhi, and Ziad Jarrah, to allow them to live as students as they plotted the attacks. He admitted to training in bin Laden's camps in Afghanistan, and witnesses at his trial testified that he was as radical as the rest of the group, often talking of jihad - holy war - and his hatred of Israel and the U.S. He signed Atta's will and had power of attorney over al-Shehhi's bank account. El Motassadeq has said he was nothing more than close friends with the others and did only things that a good Muslim would do for any "brother." Trial dates are scheduled into January, but more can be added if needed. * Search the NYTr Archives at: http://olm.blythe-systems.com/pipermail/nytr/ To subscribe or unsubscribe or change your settings via the web, visit: http://olm.blythe-systems.com/mailman/listinfo/nytr ================================================================= NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 http://www.blythe.org e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! 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