A surprise witness who caused the postponement of a verdict in a trial over the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States has told German authorities that Iranian intelligence was involved in the plot.
Two German federal police officers told the court in Hamburg on Thursday that the witness was an Iranian man claiming to be a former spy for Tehran until mid-2001.
The witness has been called by federal prosecutors who say that he can incriminate Moroccan student Abdelghani Mzoudi, the second man worldwide to stand trial over the suicide hijackings that killed more than 3,000 people.
Mzoudi is accused of being a key member of the so-called Hamburg cell that produced three of the hijackers including alleged ringleader Mohammed Atta.
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