Germany to Send Observer to New York Terrorism Trials
Saturday, November 21, 2009
New York, NY –
Germany will send an observer to the upcoming trial in New York of the professed mastermind of the 9/11 attacks and four accused henchmen. Justice Ministry spokeswoman Katharina Jahntz on Saturday confirmed a report in the news weekly Der Spiegel that a German observer would attend the trial to ensure that no evidence provided by Germany would be used to apply the death penalty. U.S. authorities announced last week that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed would be tried in a Lower Manhattan federal court. No date has been set. Three of the four suicide pilots who carried out the attacks had lived and studied in the northern German city of Hamburg. Germany, like the rest of Europe, except for Belarus, does not execute criminals.
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