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 AGADIR, Morocco (AP) - Abdelghani Mzoudi fell into the arms of his sobbing mother as he emerged into the airport's arrival terminal Tuesday, sent home to Morocco by German authorities after being acquitted of aiding the Sept. 11 hijackers.
He thanked God, the German legal system and his German lawyers. He said he never should have been charged with helping three of the suicide hijackers — Mohamed Atta, Marwan al-Shehhi and Ziad Jarrah — plot the 2001 attacks on the United States while all lived in Hamburg, Germany.
"They arrested me just because I knew the guys. I wasn't the only one who knew them in the whole of Hamburg," the soft-spoken Mzoudi told The Associated Press in his first comments to the media since his arrest in October 2002. "All Arabs knew each other."
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