BERLIN, August 31 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - Justice Minister Herta Daeubler-Gmelin said Germany will not bow to U.S. demands to turn over documents for the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, the French-Moroccan facing a death sentence in the United States over the attacks on Washington D.C. and New York on September 11, in an interview released Saturday.

The minister, whose comments appear in the news magazine Der Spiegel's Monday edition, said the United States must understand "that our documents must not be used for a death sentence or an execution."

Capital punishment is banned in the European Union, and the German constitution prohibits the transfer of any documents for a defendant facing possible capital punishment.

Moussaoui, 34, arrested in the United States last year, was the first person to be indicted worldwide over the September 11 attacks. He goes on trial in January, after a judge ruled for an extension over fear that Moussaoui would not receive a fair trial if tried in September.

Der Spiegel said Germany has turned up two money transfer forms from a Frankfurt bank that reportedly establish a link between Moussaoui and a cell of Osama bin Laden's al-Qa’eda network in the northern city of Hamburg, which at one point was the home of the Egyptian Mohammed Atta - alleged mastermind of the attacks - and several of his fellow hijackers.

Both forms requested money transfers to Moussaoui's account in the United States, where he was enrolled in a flight training school.

Fingerprints and handwriting analyses showed the forms were filled out by a Yemen national, Ramzi Binalshibh, who is being sought by an international arrest warrant and suspected of helping the Hamburg group plan the attacks, the magazine said.

The U.S. has repeatedly requested the originals of the documents for Moussaoui's trial, which begins January 6.