Ghani Mzoudi, saying that he too had been a "hardcore" member of the terrorist organization. The Hamburg state superior court set aside a second charge against Motassadeq, 31, of being an accessory to the murder of more than 3,000 people who died in the attacks in New York, Washington DC and Pennsylvania. At the beginning of the verdict, Schudt said bail conditions for Motassadeq were being immediately cancelled. Motassadeq, dressed in a long plaid shirt worn over his jeans, listened impassively to the judgement. Schudt criticized the refusal of the United States to provide more evidence to the trial, and said U.S. evidence had only been utilized in the judgement where it corroborated independent evidence. The judge said the central documents of the case were the writings of Atta which portrayed "nothing short of terrorism as a service to God". This had been the "store of ideas" that the Hamburg group had succumbed to. "From being friendly, nice young men, they turned into fanatics," he said of the group that formed among the Arab students in late 1999. Schudt said the court did not believe the 9-11 attacks were conceived in Hamburg, but the group, mostly of students, had put themselves at the disposal of al-Qaeda, the world terrorist network led by Osama bin Laden, to carry them out. "The planning took place in Afghanistan," he said. --SP 1347 Local Time 1047 GMT
