LONDON, Feb. 22 (UPI) -- An Algerian pilot falsely accused of involvement in the Sept. 11 terror attacks can't seek money for his five months in prison, a court in London ruled.
Two High Court judges ruled that Lotfi Raissi should be excluded from a program that compensates victims of miscarriages of justice, the Independent reported. The justices said the program didn't apply to Raissi because he was held as part of an extradition proceeding, not "in the domestic criminal process."
Raissi, 32, vowed to appeal.
"The Metropolitan Police and the Crown Prosecution Service are 'domestic,' and they played a key role in the extradition proceedings by wrongly naming me as an international terrorist and by ensuring that I spent almost five months in Belmarsh (prison)," he told the Independent.
Raissi was falsely accused of training the pilots who crashed planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the newspaper said.
"The reality is that because of my profile of being Algerian, Muslim, Arabic and an airline pilot, I suffered this miscarriage of justice," Raissi told the Independent.
