■ Vatican City
Beatification drive begins
The priest leading late Pope John Paul II's sainthood campaign called on Roman Catholics to use the Internet to send any information on the life and virtues of the pontiff that could help his case, Vatican Radio said Monday. An official Web site (vicariatusurbis.org) will publish the testimony sent by regular mail or e-mail to Slawomir Oder, the Polish priest in charge of the beatification process. The information will be filed under several categories such as "my meeting with John Paul II" or "blessings received" with the pope's intercession, the radio said.
■ Morocco
Acquitted `terrorist' deported
A Moroccan acquitted of charges he helped the Sept. 11, 2001 hijackers returned home yesterday after Germany ordered him out of the country, his lawyer said. Abdelghani Mzoudi, 32, was acquitted in February last year of charges he helped 9-11 hijackers Mohamed Atta, Marwan al-Shehhi and Ziad Jarrah in their plot to attack the US. While testimony showed he trained at the same al-Qaeda camps as the hijackers and was close friends with them in Hamburg, German judges ruled that it was not proven he knew anything about their plot. After his acquittal was upheld earlier this month, Hamburg's top security official, Udo Nagel, said his office was still ordering him expelled because it "stands by its view that Mzoudi threatens the free democratic order and supports terrorist organizations."
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