Germany deports convicted 9/11 accomplice home to Morocco

A Moroccan man convicted of helping Mohamed Atta and the other Hamburg-based Sept. 11 suicide pilots as they plotted attacks on New York and Washington was deported Monday from Germany to his homeland.

German authorities confirmed that Mounir el Motassadeq was aboard a plane that had taken off from Frankfurt. He was released shortly before completing his 15-year sentence on the condition that he agree to be deported to Morocco. That would allow Germany to re-arrest him if he ever returned.