National News Spanish judge indicts Madrid bombing suspect on 9/11 charges

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MADRID (AP) - A Moroccan fugitive sought in connection with the March 11 train bombings in Madrid was indicted April 28 on charges of helping to plan the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States - the first suspect linked to both attacks.

Amer Azizi, 36, helped organize a meeting in northeast Spain in July 2001 that key plotters in the U.S. attacks, including suicide pilot Mohamed Atta, used to finalize details, Judge Baltasar Garzon said in the indictment.

In the new indictment, Azizi is charged with multiple counts of murder - "as many deaths and injuries as were committed" on Sept. 11, 2001 - for helping to plan the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

Azizi provided lodging for people who attended the July 2001 meeting in the Tarragona region of Spain and acted as a courier, passing on messages between plotters, Garzon said.

According to a U.S. congressional investigation, Atta flew to Madrid in July 2001, where authorities believe he met with co-conspirator Ramzi Binalshibh to discuss the plot. Binalshibh is now in U.S. custody at an undisclosed overseas location. The U.S. investigation did not mention the presence of any other conspirators in Spain.

The April 28 indictment described Azizi as the right-hand man of Imad Yarkas, jailed in November 2001 on charges of leading the Spain-based al-Qaeda cell that allegedly provided financing and logistics for people who planned the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States.

Garzon said the new indictment is based on information provided by authorities in Britain, Turkey and the United States.

Azizi has been on the run since he fled Spain in November 2001, shortly after a wave of arrests that netted Yarkas and more than a dozen other al-Qaeda suspects.

スペインでテロ犯起訴

3月にスペインで起こった列車テロのモロッコ人容疑者が4月28日、2001年の米同時多発テロにも関与していたとして起訴された。

Shukan ST: May 7, 2004

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