German police arrested a Moroccan man today on suspicion he helped the Hamburg-based al-0aeda cell that led the September 11th attacks on the United States.
Police arrested 29-year-old Mr Abdelghani Mzoudi, who shared an apartment with several of the suicide hijackers, in the northern port city of Hamburg in a dawn raid after an arrest warrant was issued yesterday.
Mr Mzoudi was arrested on suspicion of having links to the al-Qaeda network and providing logistical help to Mohammed Atta and other hijackers involved in the attacks on New York and Washington.
Atta and other leading hijackers spent time as students in Hamburg before entering the United States to perpetrate the attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center and hit the Pentagon.
Prosecutors said Mzoudi had had close contact for years with members of the Hamburg cell. That cell included Atta as well as two other hijackers who died in the attacks, Marwan Al Shehhi and Ziad Jarrah, and key al-Qaeda suspect Ramzi Binalshibh, - who was arrested in Pakistan last month.