ARAB-EUROPEAN RELATIONS - Oct. 10 - Moroccan Arrested In Sept. 11 Plot.

Abdelghani Mzoudi, a 29-year-old electrical engineering student originally from Marrakesh, Morocco, is arrested in Hamburg, Germany, on suspicion of providing logistical support to the Hamburg Al Qaida cell. He was taken into custody at dawn after what prosecutors described as a "complex investigation". German officials said they had recently secured a witness statement that Mzoudi, like other members of the Hamburg group, had visited terrorist training camps in Afghanistan in 2000. The German Federal Prosecutor's office said in the statement: "The accused is alleged to have supported the members of the cell around Mohammad Atta which was involved in the terror attacks on the United States. The accused knew the organisation's goals of launching terrorist attacks and supported it logistically". Mzoudi denied any connection to the Sept. 11 attacks. (He was one of two witnesses to sign Atta's 1996 will, in which the leader of the hijacking group outlined how his body should be handled after death. The other signatory to the will, Mounir Motassadeq, also from Marrakesh, goes on trial on Oct. 22 in Hamburg. He is facing more than 3,000 counts of being an accessory to murder and membership in a terrorist organisation. Motassadeq denies the charges).