Dusseldorf - A German judge trying a Lebanese student for an attempted train bombing is to question the alleged co-plotter in a Lebanese prison, according to a German news magazine on Sunday. Focus said Lebanese prosecutor-general Said Mirza had acceded to a German request for access to Jihad Hamad, who has already been sent to jail for 12 years for the failed 2006 attempt to blow up two German trains.

The other Islamist, Youssef al-Hajj Dib, 23, is in German custody and currently on trial in the western city of Dusseldorf.

Court staff could not be contacted by Deutsche Presse-Agentur