Низар бен Абдельазиз Трабельси: Террорист, сот және АҚШ-қа экстрадиция.

Tunisian former professional footballer (born 1970)

Nizar ben Abdelaziz Trabelsi (born 2 July 1970) is a Tunisian former professional footballer. In 2003, he was convicted as terrorist and sentenced to ten years' imprisonment for his association with Al Qaida, and for plotting to attack US targets including American soldiers stationed at the Belgian airbase Kleine Brogel Air Base.

Trabelsi had traveled to Afghanistan and met Osama bin Laden on several occasions. He is said to be the designated suicide bomber, and was to wear a business suit to conceal the strapped bomb onto himself before walking into the embassy. Trabelsi was arrested in an apartment, in Uccle near Brussels, Belgium on 13 September 2001. He was also implicated by Briton Saajid Badat, who alleged that both of them had conspired with Richard Reid supposedly to blow up two US bound airliners using shoe bombs simultaneously.

In 2003, Trabelsi was sentenced to a ten year prison term in Belgium, He was also found guilty of illegal weapons possession and being a member in a private militia. On 3 October 2013, he was extradited to the United States. In September 2014, the European Court of Human Rights found that his deportation was performed in violation of Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights and ordered Belgium to pay 60,000 euros in damages to Trabelsi. Trabelsi was extradited to the United States in October 2013, after he completed his sentence in Belgium. On 14 July, 2023, he was found not guilty in an American federal court.