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To: Elsewhere who wrote (37492)	4/7/2004 1:21:17 PM
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The political will is a long sentence for Mounir el Motassadeq. So much for political will... story.news.yahoo.com Mounir el Motassadeq, 30, smiled broadly as he left the Hamburg prison where he had been held since November 2001. He walked past reporters without comment before his friends and lawyer whisked him away in a car to an unknown location. Lawyer Josef Graessle-Muenscher said el Motassadeq was returning to his wife and two children in Hamburg. "When I went to pick him up, he was happy and smiling at me," the lawyer told reporters. "Now he's going home to his family." Explaining the decision, judges said their suspicion that Mounir El Motassadeq could be guilty of more than 3,000 counts of accessory to murder — the main accusation against him — had lessened. He was ordered to stay in Hamburg and report to police twice a week. El Motassadeq has acknowledged training at an al-Qaida camp in Afghanistan (news - web sites) and being friends with Hamburg-based hijackers Mohamed Atta, Marwan al-Shehhi and Ziad Jarrah, but denies any knowledge of the Sept. 11 plot. He has been serving a maximum 15-year prison term in a Hamburg prison since a court in the city convicted him in February 2003 of giving logistical help to the al-Qaida cell. He was expected to be released later Wednesday.