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| A former Tunisian soccer player who was sentenced to a decade in prison in Belgium in 2003 for planning a suicide bombing for Al Qaeda against a military base there — which is also used by NATO — has been extradited to the United States to face similar charges in an American court, the Justice Department announced Thursday. The player, Nizar Trabelsi, 43, was indicted under seal in 2006 in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Prosecutors say he traveled to Afghanistan in the spring of 2001 and met with Osama bin Laden and, later, Muhammed Atef, a chief military planner for the terrorist group. The indictment accuses him of obtaining chemicals in Europe to build a 1,000-kiloton bomb and joining others to scout the military base, Kleine Brogel Air Base, as a potential target for a suicide attack. | A former Tunisian soccer player who was sentenced to a decade in prison in Belgium in 2003 for planning a suicide bombing for Al Qaeda against a military base there — which is also used by NATO — has been extradited to the United States to face similar charges in an American court, the Justice Department announced Thursday. The player, Nizar Trabelsi, 43, was indicted under seal in 2006 in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Prosecutors say he traveled to Afghanistan in the spring of 2001 and met with Osama bin Laden and, later, Muhammed Atef, a chief military planner for the terrorist group. The indictment accuses him of obtaining chemicals in Europe to build a 1,000-kiloton bomb and joining others to scout the military base, Kleine Brogel Air Base, as a potential target for a suicide attack. |