Tunisian jailed in al Qaeda anti-Nato plot

A Belgian court yesterday jailed a Tunisian-born former professional soccer player for 10 years for plotting to attack a Nato base on behalf of al Qaeda. The Brussels Criminal Court also convicted two other North African-born militants of being...

A Belgian court yesterday jailed a Tunisian-born former professional soccer player for 10 years for plotting to attack a Nato base on behalf of al Qaeda.

The Brussels Criminal Court also convicted two other North African-born militants of being accomplices in the assassination by al Qaeda collaborators of an Afghan rebel commander in 2001.

Nizar ben Abdelaziz Trabelsi, 33, was convicted of planning to blow himself up at Belgium's Kleine Brogel air base, which houses US soldiers and suspected nuclear weapons.

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