Tunisia: Tunisian Man Sets For Further Charges

A Tunisian man jailed in Belgium in 2003 for planning to attack a Nato air base has been extradited to the US to face further charges. Nizar Trabelsi faces several charges linked to the same plot including conspiring to kill Americans abroad, a US indictment shows. Trabelsi, who used to play professional football in Germany, pleaded not guilty at a court in Washington DC. The indictment says Trabelsi met al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden in 2001. Trabelsi, now 43, was arrested in Belgium two days after the 11 September 2001 attacks on the US. In 2003 he was convicted by a Belgian court of plotting to blow himself up at the Kleine Brogel base, which housed US soldiers. He was imprisoned in Belgium until his extradition. He now faces charges in the US of conspiring to kill Americans abroad, conspiring to use weapons of mass destruction and supporting a foreign terrorist organisation. If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of life in prison. Source: BBC

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