Career
In 2003, he was convicted as terrorist and sentenced to 10 years" imprisonment for his association with First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Qaida, and for plotting to attack United States targets including American soldiers stationed at the Belgian airbase Kleine Brogel Air Base. Trabelsi played in Germany for Fortuna Düsseldorf, Wuppertaler SV, 1. Football Club Wülfrath, SV 09/35 Wermelskirchen and VfR Neuss, as a midfielder.
Trabelsi had traveled to Afghanistan and met Osama bin Laden on several occasions.
In 2001, Trabelsi was suspected of plotting to attack a United States embassy in Paris, which was uncovered and stopped. 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 United States-bound airliners using shoe bombs simultaneously.
Conviction
In 2003, Trabelsi was sentenced to a 10-year prison term in Belgium.
He was also found guilty of illegal weapons possession and being a member in a private militia. On October 3, 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.
After twelve years in custody, he is now being held in Washington District of Columbia without bond.