Author: Christel Kucharz
Publication: www.abcnews.com
Date: November 28, 2001
URL: http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/WTC_Investigation.html
Berlin, Nov. 28 - German police
today arrested a man accused of keeping a bank account that financed Sept.
11 hijackers.
The 27-year-old Moroccan national,
named only as "Mounir El M.," was arrested in Hamburg, the German Federal
Prosecutors Office said in a prepared statement.
El M. allegedly had "intensive contacts"
over a period of years with members of a terrorist cell in Hamburg and
held a bank account used by Marwan Al-Shehhi, presumed killed as one of
the suicide hijackers who piloted United Airlines Flight 175 into the South
Tower of the World Trade Center.
Officials said the account, from
a Hamburg bank, was used to finance Al-Shehhi and other members of the
terrorist group, including suspected ringleader Mohamed Atta, who also
was on Flight 175, and Ziad Jarrah, a Lebanese man believed to have been
flying United Airlines Flight 93 when it slammed into a field in Pennsylvania.
"Large sums of money" were regularly
paid into the account from May 2000 to November 2000, according to the
statement, and were used to support Al-Shehhi during his stay in the United
States. Prosecutors believe the cash also helped pay for his flight-training
classes in Florida.
