HAMBURG, Germany - US authorities have sent to Germany details of interviews with key witnesses in the retrial of a Moroccan accused of involvement in the September 11 attacks in 2001, the court here said on Friday.
The six-page document contains summaries of the interrogations of Ramzi Binalshibh, an alleged planner of the suicide attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon which killed around 3,000 people, and another suspect.
The prosecution hopes the information will shed more light on Mounir El Motassadeq's alleged role in preparing the attacks.
Motassadeq was jailed by a German court for 15 years in February 2003 for his role in the attacks, but in March 2004 a new trial was ordered because US authorities refused to allow Binalshibh and another alleged planner, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, to testify.
The two are being held by US authorities at an undisclosed location.
The Hamburg court has been waiting several months for the information from the United States.
It must be translated into German, but it will be available to lawyers in time for the next court session on May 24, a spokeswoman for the Hamburg court said.
Washington has informed the German justice ministry that it will not supply any further documents for use in Motassadeq's trial.
05/13/2005 15:23 GMT