A Moroccan man accused of assisting three of the September 11th hijackers has been acquitted by a German court today.
Mr Abdelghani Mzoudi (31) admitted being a close friend of the three men while they lived in Hamburg but denied having any prior knowledge of the attacks in 2001.
The court pronounced its verdict despite a last-minute bid by lawyers for victims' families to delay it, after the lawyers had cited alleged new evidence linked to the case of accused September 11th conspirator Mr Zacarias Moussaoui in the United States.