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Posted on 11/21/2003 7:22:53 AM PST by Pan_Yans Wife
Iran rejects US extradition plea over al-Qaeda
By Guy Dinmore at the UN Financial Times Published: September 25 2003 1:29 | Last Updated: September 25 2003 1:29
Iran announced on Wednesday that it would soon put on trial suspected al-Qaeda activists, rejecting US demands that they be extradited to their home countries.
Kamal Kharrazi, the Iranian foreign minister, told a conference on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York that the suspects in detention had been accused of committing crimes inside Iran "so they have to be tried in our country".
Iran has previously extradited suspected al-Qaeda fugitives and their families to their countries of origin. Mr Kharrazi's announcement that Iran's own courts would deal with the issue is bound to antagonise the Bush administration, which wanted access.
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