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...common good. States are the only actors we can deal with, who can enforce treaties and achieve our aims. Unlike private armies or loose terrorist networks, states—even ones that sponsor terrorism—have interests in self-preservation that run counter to the suicide-bomber ethic. A state can’t slink into a cave for several months, emerging only to carry out some new monstrosity...
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...
...Leicester after escaping the Sept. 21 French sweep of the Beghal group. Daoudi had lived in Djamel Beghal?s Paris-area flat, where he is believed to have maintained secure Internet communications for the group Sept. 26, 2001 Spanish police detain Mohammed Belaziz, allegedly a would-be suicide bomber for the attack on the U.S. embassy in Paris, along with five other Algerians. Further arrests are made in Bosnia Sept. 29, 2001 Police in Wiesbaden, Germany take Talip Tolgay and two other terrorist suspects into custody. Weapons, fake identity and credit cards and an invoice for a return air ticket...
...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 "the thickness of seven phone books," onto CDs and finally hand them...
...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 and documents related to the assault. The search of a nearby restaurant turned up bomb-making materials. "It?s still unknown exactly how the attack was to be carried out - as a suicide bombing or planted...