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Al-Qaida Suspect in Belgium Confesses
A Tunisian terror suspect has confessed in a radio interview that he learned to build bombs from Osama bin Laden's operatives and planned to attack a Belgian air base where the United States has soldiers. Nizar Trabelsi also told the RTBF radio network that he met bin Laden in Afghanistan and loves him "just like a father." Trabelsi said that when he was arrested two days after the Sept. 11 attacks, he was planning an attack against the Kleine-Brogel Air Base in northeastern Belgium. There are about 100 U.S. Air Force personnel based at Kleine-Brogel as part of a munitions support squadron. Anti-nuclear campaigners have long claimed that U.S. nuclear weapons are held at Kleine-Brogel, a claim that the Belgian government neither confirms nor denies.The USAF owns and maintains the nukes, the Belgian AF is tasked to deliver them. That's why the Belgian government is keeping its mouth shut. Trabelsi said he met with bin Laden, leader of the al-Qaida network, on a visit to Afghanistan and sees him as a mentor. "I love him just like a father. Whatever he has done in the past, it doesn't matter to me," Trabelsi said in the RTBF interview. "I love Islam, I love Muslims and I love all human beings, except the Americans," he said. To an Islamist, Americans aren't human beings. Posted by: Steve 2002-11-15 |
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