Moroccan gets 15 years for 9/11 role

A MOROCCAN convicted as an accessory to murder in the September 11, 2001, attacks in the US was sentenced last night to the maximum 15 years in prison.

A federal appeals court had convicted Mounir el Motassadeq, a friend of three of the suicide pilots, of the charge in November and sent the case to a state court in Hamburg for sentencing.

Just before yesterday’s verdict, the 32-year-old defendant exchanged charged words with an American co-plaintiff whose mother died on board one of the planes that crashed into the World Trade Centre.