FILE - In this Jan. 8, 2007 file picture Moroccan Mounir El Motassadeq waits prior his trial at a court in Hamburg, northern Germany, The Moroccan man has been sentenced to a 15-year prison sentence in Germany for helping three of the suicide pilots in the 9/11 attacks on the U.S. (AP Photo/Fabian Bimmer, Pool) 'Everything is going according to plan,' said a spokesman for the state of Hamburg's interior ministry, declining to give details, other than to say that Motassadeq's release was permissible from October 15 if he was deported immediately. “All the necessary procedural steps for this have been ticked off according to plan.”

El Motassadeq was released shortly before completing his 15-year-sentence on the condition that he agree to be deported to Morocco. HAMBURG, GERMANY - Mounir El Motassadeq, a friend of the September 11 hijackers who was sentenced to 15 years in a German prison in 2007 for being an accessory to mass murder, was deported to his native Morocco on Monday (Oct 15). It limited the number of counts, however, to the 246 people killed aboard the airplanes, and the 15-year sentence was restored.
Mounir el-Motassadeq, sentenced to 15 years in prison as a member of the Hamburg cell of the September 11 attackers, was deported from Hamburg, Germany to Morocco.