Germany has set free one of the people convicted of taking part in the September 11 attacks: Convicted Sept. 11 Suspect Leaves Prison. Way to go, Germany. Every time something like this happens, the jihadis around the world get more proof that Europe is hopelessly effete and unable to respond to their attacks. Germany is rolling over and offering its belly to Al Qaeda.

HAMBURG, Germany - The only person convicted in the Sept. 11 attacks was freed by a court Wednesday, pending the outcome of his retrial on charges of aiding the Hamburg al-Qaida cell that included three of the suicide pilots.

Mounir el Motassadeq, 30, smiled broadly as he left the Hamburg prison where he had been held since November 2001. He walked past reporters without comment before his friends and lawyer whisked him away in a car to an unknown location.

Lawyer Josef Graessle-Muenscher said el Motassadeq was returning to his wife and two children in Hamburg.

“When I went to pick him up, he was happy and smiling at me,” the lawyer told reporters. “Now he’s going home to his family.”

Explaining the decision, judges said their suspicion that Mounir El Motassadeq could be guilty of more than 3,000 counts of accessory to murder — the main accusation against him — had lessened. He was ordered to stay in Hamburg and report to police twice a week.

El Motassadeq has acknowledged training at an al-Qaida camp in Afghanistan and being friends with Hamburg-based hijackers Mohamed Atta, Marwan al-Shehhi and Ziad Jarrah, but denies any knowledge of the Sept. 11 plot.