Jordan extradites al Qaeda suspect to Spain-sources

Reuters ^ | Feb 3 2004 | NA

[Dog]

Jordan extradites al Qaeda suspect to Spain-sources

MADRID, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Jordan extradited to Spain on Tuesday a man sought by a Spanish judge on charges of belonging to al Qaeda, judicial sources said.

The man, named in court documents as Abdulla Khayata Kattan, was brought to Spain and appeared briefly before a judge who ordered him held temporarily, the sources said. He is due to be questioned by High Court Judge Baltasar Garzon later this week.

Kattan was one of 35 men, including al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, charged by Garzon last September with links to the network, which Washington blames for a series of "terror" attacks.

Some of the 35 were charged in connection with the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. Kattan was accused only of al Qaeda membership.

Court documents issued last September said Kattan went by the alias Abu Ibrahim and was a native of Syria.

Garzon has said there is evidence the September 11 plot was partly hatched in Spain.

[cmsgop]

No Disco for you Abdulla .......

[Dog]

USA Today article detailing the 34 other names and the indictment.

Here.

[cmsgop]

Thanks Dude!

[yonif]

which Washington blames for a series of "terror" attacks.

anti-American bias again. Why is terror in quotation marks? Has it been too long for us to remember what happened on that day?

[Dog]

I noticed that also...Reuters....pfffffttt!

[Boot Hill]

Thanks for the ping.

Reuters reports:   "[Abdulla Khayata Kattan] is due to be questioned by High Court Judge Baltasar Garzon later this week."

Ordinarily, this high level of cooperation between an Arab country (Jordon) and a coalition partner (Spain) would be something very encouraging. However, the judge, Baltasar Garzon, is the notoriously anti-American and radical socialist judge that was responsible for the incredibly stupid 1998 attempt to prosecute Chilean military ruler, General Augusto Pinochet, for so-called "human rights abuses".

I remain hopeful, but I'm not holding my breath that Kattan will ever be successfully or meaningfully prosecuted or that any information Kattan provides investigators will ever make its way to U.S. intelligence. Well at least he's out of circulation (for the time being) and his loss to the al Qa'ida organization must surely be adding to their sense of death by a thousand cuts.

--Boot Hill

[pointsal]

thanks...now we need to see the names of the banks and bankers that help these slimeballs survive in modern society.

[Coop]

anti-American bias again.

Anti-reality bias is more like it. Reuters is disgraceful.

[Mo1]

FYI


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1069919/posts?page=37#37

11:00 a.m.: Jose Maria Aznar, the President of the Government of Spain, will address a Joint Meeting of Congress.C-span 1 will be airing this live

[livius]

Garzon is indeed quite left wing, and sort of a loose cannon. He loves media attention and the adulation of the press and the left.

However, he's unpredictable. Every so often he will do something that actually makes sense and doesn't seem to be motivated either by leftist politics or self-aggrandizement, and then he can be quite effective.

Oddly enough, he's really going after the Spanish AQ folks and those who are suspected of having planned 9/11 in Spain, so this time around, I'll have to give him a gold star.

[Boot Hill]

That was very interesting and sounds hopeful.

Thanks.

--Boot Hill

[cookcounty]

"Why is terror in quotation marks?"

Because that's what "reporters" for "news organizations" do.