Nizar Trabelsi has been extradited to the US to face further charges which include conspiracy to kill Americans abroad.

CEOAFRICA.com gathered that the 43 year-old Tunisian was convicted in Belgium in 2003 for planning to attack a Nato air base. He was said to have tried blowing up himself at the Kleine Brogel base, which housed US soldiers.

Sources revealed that Trabelsi, who used to play professional football in Germany, pleaded not guilty at a court in Washington DC.

The indictment says Trabelsi met al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden in 2001.

Trabelsi, now 43, was arrested in Belgium two days after the 11 September 2001 attacks on the US. He now faces charges in the US of conspiring to kill Americans abroad, conspiring to use weapons of mass destruction and supporting a foreign terrorist organisation.

If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of life in prison.