The Paris embassy attack plot was a suspected Al-Qaida plot in 2001 to destroy the Embassy of the United States, Paris, France, as well as a munitions depot in Belgium. The NATO headquarters in Brussels was also possibly targeted. The attack on the U.S. embassy would have involved a suicide bomber. Nizar Trabelsi, a former professional football player, was the designated bomber. The plot was uncovered and stopped around the time of the September 11 attacks that destroyed the U.S. World Trade Center.