MADRID, Spain - A Spanish judge indicted a Moroccan fugitive on charges of helping to plan the Sept. 11 hijackings, making the man the first suspect directly linked to both that attack and the March 11 train bombings exactly 2½ years later.

Amer Azizi, 36, has not been charged in the Madrid train bombings that killed 191 people, but the Interior Ministry released a photo of him this month and called him a suspect. He has not been formally charged and the judge leading the investigation, Juan del Olmo, has not issued an arrest warrant for him.

The investigation of the March 11 attacks has turned up evidence that suspects in the train bombings had ties to people charged in an earlier Sept. 11 indictment but no one else has been tied so directly to both the attacks.

Judge Baltasar Garzon said in his indictment Wednesday that Azizi helped organize a meeting in northeast Spain in July 2001 that key plotters in the U.S. attacks, including suicide pilot Mohamed Atta, used to finalize details.

Azizi also was included in an indictment Garzon handed down last September against al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden and 34 other terror suspects. Azizi was charged then with belonging to a terrorist organization. Bin Laden and nine others were charged with planning the Sept. 11 attacks.

In the new indictment, Azizi is charged with multiple counts of murder - "as many deaths and injuries as were committed" on Sept. 11, 2001 - for helping to plan the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

Azizi provided lodging for people who attended the July 2001 meeting in the Tarragona region of Spain and acted as a courier, passing on messages between plotters, Garzon said in the indictment.

Wednesday's indictment described Azizi as the right-hand man of Imad Yarkas, jailed in November 2001 on charges of leading a Spain-based al-Qaida cell that allegedly provided financing and logistics for people who planned the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States.

He has been on the run since he fled Spain in November 2001, shortly after a wave of arrests that netted Yarkas and more than a dozen other al-Qaida suspects.

Garzon said the new indictment is based on information provided by authorities in Britain, Turkey and the United States.

Azizi had a "direct connection with al-Qaida leaders in Afghanistan who were responsible for the attacks," Garzon charged.

Attorney General John Ashcroft said he'll work with Spain and other allies to catch Azizi.