Germany to release jailed friend of 9/11 hijackers

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07 Feb 2006 16:38:02 GMT

BERLIN, Feb 7 (Reuters) - Mounir El Motassadeq, a Morrocan man convicted in August of membership in a terrrorist organisation and sentenced to seven years in prison, will be released early, an official in the Hamburg Justice Ministry said on Tuesday.

"I can confirm ... that he will be released," the official told Reuters.

Motassadeq was a friend of three of the Sept. 11, 2001 suicide pilots.

Germany's Federal Constitutional Court said in a statement that it had upheld an appeal against Motassadeq's conviction.