Lawyer misidentified as terrorist
A story supplied to
Guardian Unlimited by the Associated Press news agency on January 5 and
headlined Moroccan convicted in Sept 11 attacks, stated in error that
Andreas Schulz, a lawyer representing families of some of the victims,
"was a close friend of pilots Mohamed Atta, Marwan al-Shehhi and Ziad
Jarrah when they lived and studied in Hamburg" and identified him as a
Moroccan who had trained at an al-Qaida camp in Afghanistan. That
information described Mounir el Motassadeq, the man convicted as an
accessory to murder in the case being reported. Andreas Schulz is a
respected lawyer practising in Germany and the European Union and we
apologise for any inadvertent damage to his reputation or personal
distress caused by this error. A corrected version of the AP story
appeared on Guardian Unlimited later that same afternoon. Link
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