JURIST - Paper Chase: US to provide limited evidence in retrial of German 9/11 suspect

A German judge announced Tuesday that the US State Department will provide summaries of its interrogations of two al Qaeda prisoners in order to help retry Mounir el Motassadeq, but will not allow terror suspects in American custody to testify in court. Motassadeq had been convicted on more than 3,000 counts of accessory to murder for helping to carry out the September 11 attacks but a German appeals court overturned the conviction because the US failure to allow the testimony of two of its al Qaeda prisoners interfered with Motassadeq's right to a fair trial. During the retrial, the US will provide the court with unclassified transcripts from interrogations. As previously reported on JURIST's Paper Chase, Motassadeq's lawyer has said that he will argue that the evidence will be inadmissible because the US likely obtained it by using torture. CBC News has the full story. BBC News has more. Deutsche Welle provides local coverage (in English) of Motassadeq's retrial.