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Wednesday, Aug 11, 2004

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U.S. pledges aid to 9/11 trial

HAMBURG, AUG. 10. The U.S. authorities have pledged to provide evidence at the retrial of the only Sept. 11 terror suspect ever convicted, a sign of progress compared to his first trial, a judge said on Tuesday.

The pledge came in a U.S. State Department letter read out as the retrial began of Mounir el Motassadeq, a 30-year-old Moroccan charged with aiding the three Hamburg-based suicide hijackers.

Replying to the Hamburg state court's request for testimony by key Al-Qaeda operatives in the U.S. custody, the letter said it would not be possible for them to testify in person, but the U.S. would provide unclassified summaries, apparently of interrogations.

``This is a bit of progress,'' trial judge Ernst-Rainer Schudt said in court.

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