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LONDON - Britain's Home Office on Thursday approved the extradition of an Islamic preacher who is accused of trying to establish a terrorist training camp in Oregon, a spokesman said. Abu Hamza al-Masri was arrested on an U.S. extradition warrant in May 2004, but the process was put on hold while he stood trial in Britain and then appealed his convictions. The Home Office's approval of his extradition means the preacher could be sent to the United States within a month's time. "The Home Secretary today has signed an order approving the extradition," a Home Office spokesman said, speaking on...

U.S. prosecutors want to return to Mexico a federal inmate they say confessed to killing at least 10 women in a border city there as "offerings to Satan." The U.S. attorney's office in Harrisburg, acting on a request from the Mexican government, on Wednesday asked a federal judge to extradite Jose Francisco Granados de la Paz for trial in the June 2001 slaying of a 17-year-old girl. De la Paz, 29, is a Mexican imprisoned in Lewisburg Federal Prison on immigration charges. Authorities say he confessed last year to the deaths, which ranged from 1993 until 2006, to Mexican investigators...

The Three Serbs After Europe criticized the U.S. for its treatment of war prisoners at Gitmo (where no terrorist ever died), 2 Serb war-crimes prisoners died in European jails in the same week (one was denied medical care). The first to die was Milan Babic. The second to die after his request for medical care was denied was Slobodan Milosevic. Most of the world will yawn or cheer these developments, of course. But there is a 3rd Serb who is currently being railroaded by the same EU officials, along with some left-wing American help. Years ago, CBS's Dan Rather sent...

SANTIAGO, Chile - Peru formally asked Chile on Tuesday to extradite former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori on human rights and corruption charges. Peru's ambassador to Chile and a Peruvian special prosecutor delivered to Chile 12 sealed boxes of documents detailing allegations that include 25 death-squad killings in the 1990s, illegal phone tapping, diversion of state funds to the intelligence service, bribery of politicians, and the transfer of $15 million to Fujimori's spy chief, Vladimiro Montesinos. The ambassador, Jose Antonio Meir, said the documents contain "strong and sufficient proof of the charges" against Fujimori. Fujimori has been under arrest in Chile...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The United States has charged a Dutch citizen with conspiring to kill Americans in Iraq, the first U.S. criminal case connected to terrorist activities there, the Justice Department said Friday. Iraqi-born Wasem al Delaema, 32, was arrested in May during a raid on his home in the Dutch city of Amersfoort. On Wednesday, U.S. authorities filed a criminal complaint in U.S. District Court in Washington and asked the Dutch government to extradite him for prosecution. Among the charges is conspiring to kill Americans overseas. U.S. authorities allege al Delaema helped plot attacks near Fallujah in October 2003....

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) - One of the FBI's most-wanted fugitives, a suspected eco-terrorist known as Tre Arrow, was ordered extradited back to the United States on Thursday to face charges of firebombings. Arrow, born Michael Scarpitti, is accused of participating in the 2001 firebombing of logging and cement trucks in Oregon. The FBI claims he is associated with the Earth Liberation Front (ELF), a group that has claimed responsibility for dozens of acts of destruction over the past few years. Arrow was seeking refugee status in Canada, according to his lawyer.

From Magic City Morning Star Letters Viva Las Vegas: The Minuteman Party By Tim Donnelly Jun 1, 2005, 22:46 Driving home from the "Unite to Fight Summit" in Las Vegas this past weekend, my friend, Gregg made a comment that summed up the entire weekend: "They shouldn't be sitting at a table with guys like us," he said, referring to a meal we shared with John and Barbara March, parents of Deputy David March executed by an illegal alien that Mexico refuses to extradite, and Peter Gadial and Joan Molinaro, who both lost a son on 9/11. "They should be...

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<p>LONDON -- British lawmakers plan to use a new tactic to stop the torrent of junk e-mail spam that floods in from overseas: extraditing the mass-mailers and bringing them to trial in the United Kingdom.</p> <p>"Spammers are no longer an irritant, they are a threat," British MP Brian White said Thursday. The U.K. last month was the second European Union country after Italy to criminalize spam in a law that goes into effect in December.</p>

Deporting convicted killer wrong: U.N. MONTREAL—A United Nations committee has ruled Canada shirked its international responsibilities when it deported a convicted killer to the United States in 1998 even though he faced a death sentence. In a decision experts say is a giant step forward for human rights, the U.N. Human Rights Committee dismissed Canada's arguments that its decision to deport Roger Judge didn't constitute cruel and unusual punishment under the Charter of Rights. The U.N. ruling, issued last week, said countries such as Canada that have abolished the death penalty are obliged to protect life in all circumstances. "They...

Saudi Arabia welcomes Iran's readiness to hand over any Saudi al-Qaeda suspects it may be holding and has already asked for their extradition, the oil-rich kingdom's interior minister said in remarks published Thursday. "We have positive security cooperation with the Iranian authorities, and we are used to them handing over to us any detained Saudi suspects," Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz told Al-Hayat. Riyadh has already asked Tehran to hand over any Saudi member of the al-Qaeda terror network detained in Iran, he said.

<p>Munich, Germany -- Metin Kaplan heads a group that seeks world domination by Islam on the basis of Shariah law, welcomed the Sept. 11 attacks, agitates against the United States, Western society and Jews, and allegedly is linked to al Qaeda.</p>

U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton has challenged her husband's confession that he turned down an offer from Sudan to extradite Osama bin Laden to the U.S., a decision that some say ranks as the worst foreign policy blunder in U.S. history. "That's not my understanding of the facts," Sen. Clinton told NewsMax.com's Carl Limbacher, who confronted Hillary with her husband's remarks on "The Mike Siegel Show." Sen. Clinton's comments are published for the first time in the new book "Hillary's Scheme." "As I understand the facts," a defensive sounding Hillary continued, "there was never a full and thorough offer." Sen....

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran said on Monday it would not hand over any detained members of Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network to Washington and denied trying to strike a prisoner exchange deal with the United States. Iran publicly acknowledged for the first time last month that it was holding some senior al Qaeda figures and said it planned to extradite some of them to "friendly countries." On Saturday the New York Times quoted a U.S. official as saying Washington had approached Tehran with a request to hand over al Qaeda men in Iranian custody, including Saif al-Adel, an Egyptian...

Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef Bin Abdul Aziz on Tuesday ruled out the extradition of Saudi national Omar al-Bayumi, suspected by Washington of having been an associate of two of the 9/11 bombers. "We have never handed over a Saudi to a state or a foreign side and we will never do it," Prince Nayef told al-Hayat. A US congressional report on the September 11, 2001 attacks released last week said that Bayumi was an associate of two of the hijackers and could have been a Saudi government agent. "Reports that Omar al-Bayumi is an agent of the Saudi government...

Iran may extradite al-Qae'da prisoners By Robin Gedye, Foreign Affairs Writer (Filed: 24/06/2003) Iran admitted yesterday that it had "identified" al-Qa'eda members in captivity and would extradite some of them to "friendly" countries. After repeated claims by Washington that Teheran was harbouring al-Qa'eda terrorists, the government admitted that it had "several" in custody, but said it did not yet know who they were. The admission that their identities had been established is apparently a gesture to appease Washington which has become increasingly frustrated with Teheran. A number of senior al-Qa'eda members are believed to have sought shelter in Iran, either...

<p>LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) - A Pakistani court issued an order Tuesday blocking the extradition of three al-Qaida suspects arrested in a joint raid by local authorities and the FBI.</p> <p>The court also ordered prosecutors to explain the charges on which the men are being held.</p>

Romania has become the first country to agree not to extradite American soldiers to the International Criminal Court in The Hague. A representative of the Romanian government on Thursday signed an "Article 98" agreement with John Bolton, US undersecretary of state for arms control and international security affairs. The Article 98 signing means Romania will not extradite American soldiers or peacekeeping personnel allegedly involved in crimes against humanity whilst serving abroad. Romania is desperate to join NATO and a decision on its membership is due to be taken in November. The signing is part of a strategy to keep the...