| Importance | Low |
 | Location | Germany |
| Affiliation | Hamburg Cell |
| Role | Associate |
| Nationality | Moroccan |
| Alternate Spelling(s) | Mounir al-Motassadek |
 | Date of Birth | April 3, 19742 |
| Alternate Date of Birth | April 13, 1974 |
| Place of Birth | Marrakesh, Morocco2 |
| Gender | Male |
| Charged with | Accessory to murder; membership in terrorist organization3 |
| Charging authority | Germany |
| In connection with | 9-11 |
| Charges issued | 2002 |
| Case status | Convicted5 |
| Convictions | Accessory to Murder; Membership in a Terrorist Organization5 |
| Sentence | 15 years imprisonment6 |
| Case resolved | Nov. 16, 2006 |
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| Reliable | He moved to Hamburg in 1995 and at some point became associated with other members of the Hamburg Cell. He helped conceal their trip to Afghanistan in 1999.
He signed Mohamed Atta's will and had power of attorney over Marwan al-Shehhi's bank account. He once covered Shehhi's tuition, allowing him to stay in Germany.
He had an address of Goeschenstr 13 in Hamburg in 2001.
He denied any foreknowledge of 9-11, and Ramzi Binalshibh, in interrogations, also said he was not a part of the plot.
He has gone back-and-forth through Germany's legal system, seeing convictions overturned and upheld.
In 2003, he was sentenced to 15 years in prison for being an accessory to 3,000 counts of murder, but the verdict was overturned.
In a retrial, he was charged with membership in a terrorist organization and convicted to 7 years imprisonment, but a higher court ordered his early release.
However, on Nov. 16, 2006, Germany's highest criminal court concluded he had some foreknowledge of the plot and was therefore guilty of accessory to murder. A sentence is pending.
Attorneys sought information from U.S. interrogations of Ramzi Binalshibh and others, but defense attorneys argued the written reports produced by the Americans could have been obtained through torture. The U.S. government refused to allow Binalshibh to serve as a in-person witness for the trial.1,2,3,4,5 |
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| Possible | Witnesses recalled Motassadeq praising Hitler and organizing film sessions that included speeches by Osama bin Laden. He also once called Atta "our pilot."1,4 |
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| Sources |
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| 1 The 9-11 Commission Final Report, July 22, 2004, Chapter 5.3. |
| 2 Finnish suspects list. |
| 3 'Profile: Mounir al-Motassadek.' BBC: Aug. 19, 2005. |
| 4 The 9-11 Commission Final Report, July 22, 2004, Footnotes. |
| 5 Rach, Claudia. 'Sept. 11 Terrorist Found Guilty of Abetting Murder.' Bloomberg News: Nov. 16, 2006. |
| 6 "German Court Sentences Moroccan for 9/11 Role." The Associated Press: Jan. 8, 2007. |
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