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German court frees man convicted for 9/11 links

A German court has ordered the release of a Moroccan convicted of belonging to a terrorist cell that included three Sept. 11 hijackers, a judicial official said Tuesday.
/ Source: The Associated Press

A German court has ordered the release of a Moroccan convicted of belonging to a terrorist cell that included three Sept. 11 hijackers, a judicial official said Tuesday.

Mounir el Motassadeq was sentenced to seven years in prison last August by a court in Hamburg. City judicial spokesman Carsten Grote said Germany's Federal Constitutional Court has now ordered him released.

Grote did not give a reason for the higher court's decision.