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To: unclewest who wrote (9597)9/30/2003 2:41:46 PM
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Al-Qaeda plotters sentenced
BBC 2003/09/30 13:27:58 GMT
news.bbc.co.uk

A man recruited as an al-Qaeda suicide bomber has been jailed for 10 years for his part in a plot to blow up a military base housing US soldiers.

The man - Nizar Trabelsi, a Tunisian who used to play professional football in Germany - was among 23 suspected militants being tried in Belgium.

A second Tunisian - Tarek Maroufi - was sentenced to six years in prison for organising the recruitment of al-Qaeda volunteers in Europe.

Another 16 suspects - who prosecutors said were part of a "spider's web" of radicals - received shorter sentences for a series of lesser offences

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