“He smiled and said, ‘I think your problem [with it] is larger than mine,’ and we both smiled and got on with it,” said Rosenthal, 50. “I liked his reaction and I liked his smile. It obviously didn’t matter.”
Mzoudi also hired lawyer Guel Pinar, who was challenging Hamburg’s decision to use profiling to round up terrorism suspects. Pinar said her client exhibits none of the radical sexism attributed to members of the Hamburg cell of terrorists that dispatched three of the suicide pilots in the Sept. 11 terror attacks. “It’s just a non-issue,” said Pinar, 35.
Mzoudi, 31, faces the same charges as el Motassadeq 3,066 counts of accessory to murder and membership in a terrorist organization. Motassadeq was sentenced to the maximum 15 years in prison.
The 61-page indictment accuses Mzoudi of being privy to the hijackers’ plans and of taking care of financial matters for alleged cell member Zakariya Essabar, who is wanted by Germany on an international warrant.
He also is accused of helping suspected lead hijacker Mohamed Atta, suicide pilot Marwan al-Shehhi and Binalshibh elude the watch of authorities by finding a room in student housing for the first two, “where they stayed unnoticed.” He allegedly allowed al-Shehhi and Atta to use his Hamburg mailing address while they took flying lessons in the United States.