One of the alleged September 11 terrorists has hired a Jewish lawyer.
The second alleged Sept. 11 terrorist to face trial in Germany has been painted as a fanatical Muslim. So his choices for lawyers a woman and a Jew have raised eyebrows.
Abdelghani Mzoudi goes on trial Thursday in the same Hamburg courtroom where his friend and fellow Moroccan Mounir el Motassadeq was convicted six months ago.
Michael Rosenthal, a criminal defense lawyer based in the southern city of Karlsruhe, openly discussed his Jewishness with Mzoudi at their first meeting having read the indictment that says Mzoudi was part of the group with a “radically anti-American and anti-Jewish position.”
“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.”
It is bad enough that this Jewish lawyer is defending a terrorist but it is even worse that he seems to be enjoying it.
