A Tunisian national who was accused of plotting a terrorist attack against Americans in Europe in 2001 with Osama bin Laden was found not guilty by a Washington, D.C., jury.

Nizar Trabelsi, a former Tunisian soccer star, was detained in 2001 and convicted in a Belgian court in 2003. He was extradited to the United States in 2013 after serving a 10-year sentence in Belgium. He was accused in an indictment of having traveled to Afghanistan to plan a suicide bomb attack with bin Laden on the Kleine Brogel Air Base in Belgium, where U.S. personnel are stationed.

U.S. authorities claimed that he had collected chemicals made to produce a 1,000-kilogram bomb and had scouted out the base with others prior.

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However, his lawyers argued that the statements Trabelsi made to Belgian authorities that resulted in his original conviction were provably false, contained several contradictions, and were made under duress.

“We all agree that he was born in Tunisia, he is a good soccer player, and he is an incessant talker who made statement after statement after statement to Belgian authorities,” his lawyer, Sabrina Shroff, said, according to Courthouse News. “Most of his statements, if not all, could not be objectively corroborated.”

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She also argued that Trabelsi was a victim of hysteria surrounding the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

A Justice Department official told NBC News that Trabelsi will be sent back to Belgium, and until then, will remain in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.