Thursday, October 3, 2013   Tunisian Nizar Trabelsi extradited
to US on terror 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.
'Trained for jihad' Trabelsi's extradition