A man wanted for allegedly helping to organise the assassination of Afghan opposition leader Ahmad Shah Masood, was extradited to Belgium from the Netherlands on Thursday, officials said on Friday.
Dutch police detained Amor ben Mohamed Sliti, a 43-year-old Belgian citizen of Tunisian origin, on his arrival at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport on a flight from Tehran on Tuesday.
"He is being questioned by the examining magistrate at this very moment," a spokesman for the Brussels public prosecutor's office said.
The magistrate will decide later whether to arrest him.
Sliti is wanted in Belgium in connection with an investigation into forged passports reportedly used by Masood's two killers, who posed as Belgian journalists and blew themselves up with Masood during an interview.
Masood led the opposition Northern Alliance's fight against the ruling Taliban in Afghanistan until his assassination on September 9, two days before the hijacked airliner attacks on the United States.
Sliti voluntarily returned to Europe after being held in a Tehran prison with other foreigners who were caught entering Iran from Pakistan. Sliti and the other foreigners were suspected of having fought alongside the Taliban.
The passports found on the bodies of Masood's killers were stolen from the Belgian consulate in Strasbourg, France and the Belgian embassy in The Hague, the Netherlands in 1999. Bureau Report