Germany Deports Associate of Sept. 11 Hijackers to Morocco

Germany Deports Associate of Sept. 11 Hijackers to Morocco
Moroccan Mounir El Motassadeq is escorted at Hamburg airport as he is released from prison in Hamburg, Germany, on Oct. 15, 2018. Fabian Bimmer/Reuters
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BERLIN—Germany has deported a Moroccan associate of the Sept. 11 hijackers after he served most of a 15-year jail term for helping organise the 2001 attacks on U.S. targets, authorities said on Oct. 15.

Mounir El Motassadeq was a member of a group of radical Islamists based in the northern German city of Hamburg who helped bring about the suicide attacks with hijacked airliners that killed nearly 3,000 people.