Briefly... NATION/WORLD

0 Comments | Philadelphia Daily News, January, 2007

For aiding 9/11 hijackers, he gets the max - 15 years A Moroccan man convicted of aiding three of the four suicide pilots who committed the Sept. 11 attacks was sentenced yesterday to the maximum of 15 years in prison. A German federal appeals court convicted Mounir el Motassadeq in November of knowingly helping the hijackers and sent the case to a state court in Hamburg for sentencing.

Shortly before the verdict was announced, the 32-year-old defendant exchanged words with an American whose mother died on one of the two planes that crashed into the World Trade Center. Dominic Puopolo Jr. fought back tears and held up pictures of his mother, Sonia Morales Puopolo, an American Airlines flight attendant, as he joined prosecutors in calling for the maximum penalty. He urged the...