{"id":1973656,"date":"2023-07-14T21:53:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-15T01:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tunisian-national-accused-of-planning-terror-attack-with-osama-bin-laden-found-not-guilty\/"},"modified":"2023-07-14T21:53:43","modified_gmt":"2023-07-15T01:53:43","slug":"tunisian-national-accused-of-planning-terror-attack-with-osama-bin-laden-found-not-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tunisian-national-accused-of-planning-terror-attack-with-osama-bin-laden-found-not-guilty\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisian national acquitted of plotting terror attack alongside Osama bin Laden."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftunisian-national-accused-of-planning-terror-attack-with-osama-bin-laden-found-not-guilty%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1973656&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Tunisian National Accused of Plotting Terrorist Attack Found Not Guilty<\/h2>\n<p>A Tunisian national, Nizar Trabelsi, who was accused of plotting a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/flashback-former-ag-barr-initiated-spying-program-on-americans-back-in-1992\/\" title=\"FLASHBACK: Former AG Barr Initiated Spying Program on Americans Back in 1992\">terrorist attack<\/a> against Americans in Europe in 2001 with Osama bin Laden, has been found not guilty by a Washington, D.C., jury.<\/p>\n<p>Trabelsi, a former Tunisian soccer star, was detained in 2001 and convicted in a Belgian court in 2003. After serving a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-president-trump-gives-pardons-to-73-individuals-and-commutes-another-70-sentences-steve-bannon-is-included\/\" title=\"BREAKING: President Trump Gives Pardons to 73 Individuals and Commutes Another 70 Sentences \u2013 Steve Bannon Is Included\">10-year sentence<\/a> in Belgium, he was extradited to the United States in 2013. The indictment against him alleged that he had traveled to Afghanistan to plan a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/at-least-10-us-service-members-now-reported-killed-in-kabul-bombings-death-toll-likely-to-rise\/\" title=\"At Least 10 US Service Members Now Reported Killed In Kabul Bombings, \u2018Death Toll Likely To Rise\u2019\">suicide bomb attack<\/a> with bin Laden on the Kleine Brogel Air Base in Belgium, where U.S. personnel are stationed.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. authorities claimed that Trabelsi had collected chemicals to produce a 1,000-kilogram bomb and had scouted out the base with others. However, his lawyers argued that the statements he made to Belgian authorities, which led to his original conviction, were provably false, contained contradictions, and were made under duress.<\/p>\n<p>Trabelsi&#8217;s lawyer, Sabrina Shroff, stated, &#8220;We all agree that he was born in Tunisia, he is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tunisian-national-accused-of-planning-terror-attack-with-osama-bin-laden-found-not-guilty\/\" title=\"Tunisian national acquitted of plotting terror attack alongside Osama bin Laden.\">good soccer player<\/a>, and he is an incessant talker who made statement after statement after statement to Belgian authorities. Most of his statements, if not all, could not be objectively corroborated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Shroff also argued that Trabelsi was a victim of the hysteria surrounding the Sept. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pentagon-halts-guantanamo-bay-prisoner-vaccine-plan-amid-backlash\/\" title=\"Pentagon halts Guantanamo Bay prisoner vaccine plan amid backlash\">11 terrorist attacks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A Justice Department official confirmed that Trabelsi will be sent back to Belgium and, in the meantime, will remain in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Tunisian national accused of plotting a 2001 terrorist attack with Osama bin Laden against Americans in Europe has been acquitted by a Washington, D.C., jury. Nizar Trabelsi, a former Tunisian soccer star, was extradited to the United States after being convicted in a Belgian court in 2003.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1973657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1973656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1973656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1973657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1973656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1973656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1973656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}