Nizar Trabelsi

Nizar Trabelsi

Personal information
Full name	Nizar ben Abdelaziz Trabelsi
Date of birth	July 2nd, 1970
Place of birth	Tunisia
Youth career
1999 - 2000	Wuppertal
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
2000 - 2001	Fortuna Düsseldorf	1	(1)
Total		2	(1)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

Nizar ben Abdelaziz Trabelsi (Arabic: نزار بن عبد العزيز الطرابلسي‎, born 2 July 1970) is a convicted terrorist and a former Tunisian former professional football player in Germany. He was sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment in 2003 for his association with Al-Qaida, and proposed involvement in militant attacks.^[1]

He played for both Fortuna Düsseldorf and Wuppertal soccer teams.^[1]

While later visiting Afghanistan, he met Osama bin Laden on several occasions.^[1] The Tunisian ^[1] is suspected of plotting the Paris embassy terrorist attack plot. He is said to have been the designated suicide bomber. He was accused of planning to strap a bomb onto himself before walking into the embassy. Trabelsi was to wear a business suit to conceal the bomb.^[2]

Trabelsi was arrested in an Uccle, Belgium apartment, near Brussels on September 13, 2001. He was convicted of plotting to attack American soldiers stationed at the Belgian airbase Kleine Brogel.

Trabelsi was also implicated by Briton Saajid Badat, who alleged that the two of them had conspired with Richard Reid to simultaneously blow up two US-bound airliners using shoe bombs. Badat withdrew from his part in the conspiracy, and did not take his planned flight. Reid succeeded in boarding American Airlines Flight 63 from Paris to Miami on 22 December 2001, and attempted to bomb the plane, but his explosives failed to detonate. Badat was arrested by British police in November 2003 in Gloucester. He was subsequently sentenced to 13 years in a UK prison. Reid is serving three life sentences with no possibility of parole in the United States.

In 2003, Trabelsi was sentenced to a 10-year prison term in France.^[1] He was also found guilty of illegal arms possession and being a member in a private militia.

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e} BBC News, Belgium frees jailbreak suspects, December 22, 2007.
2. ^ "Thwarting terror cells in Europe." CNN.

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Name	Trabelsi, Nizar
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Date of birth	2 July 1970
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