Word: trabelsi
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...into active cells aren?t terribly interested in the activities of publicists like Qatada and al-Siri, though. They want to hear details from the far less loquacious detainees, and so far they?re not hearing much of immediate value. According to a Belgian official, when police asked Nizar Trabelsi - the ex-footballer arrested on Sept. 13 for his alleged role in a planned attack on the U.S. embassy in Paris - why he had a Uzi submachine pistol in his Brussels apartment, he cited "sentimental reasons." Key prisoners like Bensakhria and the once talkative Beghal, alleged leader of the Paris...
...Nizar Trabelsi, 31 Tunisian Status: Arrested Sept. 13 in Brussels. Suspected of involvement in preparations to attack the U.S. embassy in Paris - according to Djamel Beghal, Trabelsi was to be a bomber - and, by some accounts, NATO HQ in Brussels. Investigators say Trabelsi, Beghal and Kamel Daoudi attended the same Afghan training camp...
Sept. 11, 2001 Four planes hijacked as terrorists launch attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington. A fourth plane crashes in Pennsylvania Sept. 13, 2001 Police in Brussels arrest Nizar Trabelsi and another suspected terrorist. They also find an Uzi submachine pistol and a list of chemicals used to make explosives. Trabelsi is believed to have been planning an attack on the U.S. embassy in Paris. Jérôme Courtellier and Mohammed Berkous are taken into custody in raids in Rotterdam Sept. 21, 2001 Lotfi Raissi, believed to have been...
...incompetency" is how one American diplomatic source characterized Belgium's laggard cooperation with U.S. efforts to catch terrorists. Since Belgian police arrested two men two days after the Sept. 11 attacks, American officials have pleaded for hard information (phone numbers, addresses, travel itineraries) on one of the men, Nizar Trabelsi, a Tunisian citizen suspected to have been the designated suicide bomber for a planned attack on the American embassy in Paris. Belgian officials say the U.S. did not properly request the Trabelsi dossier until Sept. 27. It took weeks after that, they say, to scan the documents, which were...
...Belgian and Dutch action did, however, net an unusual array of characters. Among those arrested was Frenchman Jérôme Courtellier, a convert to Islam whose brother trained at the Afghan camps and is currently in a French prison for terrorism-related crimes. Also apprehended was Nizar Trabelsi, 31, a Tunisian and former pro soccer player, who was lured from an errant life of drugs and alcohol by the redemption of radical Islam. Moving on Beghal?s identification of Trabelsi as the designated bomber for the U.S. embassy attack, Belgian police raided his apartment and found automatic weapons...