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Britain
Court: Aswat Can Be Extradited
2006-01-06
A British court ruled Thursday that a suspected al-Qaida member can be extradited to the United States to stand trial for allegedly plotting to set up a terrorist training camp in Oregon. The ruling came after the U.S. government reassured the court that the British defendant, Haroon Rashid Aswat, 31, would be tried at a U.S. federal court, not a military tribunal, and that he would not be designated an "enemy combatant." The American government has used that label to detain suspected terrorists at military detention centers such as Guantanamo Bay. "A trial could be properly and fairly conducted without a breach of the defendant's ... rights," Judge Timothy Workman said in his ruling at Bow Street magistrates court in London.

British Home Secretary Charles Clarke now has up to two months to approve the extradition. The defense had argued that Aswat should not be extradited to the United States because he would face an "overwhelming risk" of being held in solitary confinement without trial — cut off from his friends, family and attorneys. Aswat's lawyer, Paul Bowen, immediately appealed. Aswat was arrested in Lusaka, Zambia, on July 20 in connection with the July 7 bombings in London, in which four suicide bombers killed 52 transit passengers.
Posted by:Fred

#10  Oh, myyyyyyyyy!
Posted by: Mahmoud Al-Jailbirdi   2006-01-06 14:13  

#9  They are gonna love him in general lockup.
Posted by: 49 Pan   2006-01-06 13:56  

#8  First for me was dentist.
Posted by: Shineth Spaviper9732   2006-01-06 09:15  

#7  ....with a billy goat.
Posted by: Besoeker   2006-01-06 09:14  

#6  Rory's right. Saw the pic, first word that came to mind..."inbreeding".
Posted by: tu3031   2006-01-06 09:08  

#5  How purtymouth got his..

RD - great graphic... his legal defence team and a fair portion of the UK MSM are painting this guy as some kind of Muslim missionary bent on creating a peaceful, utopian religious community in the States. Needless to say that pic hasn't been used anywhere in the British press that I've seen. What a pair - they could be lovers.
Posted by: Howard UK   2006-01-06 05:24  

#4  He looks even more inbred than some of the Amish around here.
Posted by: Rory B. Bellows   2006-01-06 01:46  

#3  Hook takes a cab with purty mouth Haroon Rashid Aswat

Posted by: RD   2006-01-06 01:26  

#2  Additional art.

January 5 2006
...
Aswat
has connections and a past that are almost too neat a fit. Now 31, he was brought up in Dewsbury, near Leeds, where Mohammad Sidique Khan, one of the London bombers, lived. He left the area 10 years ago and is believed to have travelled to training camps in Pakistan and Afghanistan. He is said to have told investigators in Zambia that he was once a bodyguard for Osama Bin Laden.

When Aswat returned to Britain he attended the Finsbury Park mosque in north London, which was a hotbed of radicalism in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Reda Hassaine, an Algerian journalist who worked as an informant for the British and French security services, witnessed Aswat recruiting young men at the mosque to the cause of Al-Qaeda.

“Inside the mosque he would sit with the new recruits telling them about life after death and the obligation of every Muslim to do the jihad against the unbelievers,” said Hassaine last week. “All the talk was about killing in order to go to paradise and get the 72 virgins.”

Aswat also showed potential recruits videotapes of the mujaheddin in action in Bosnia and Chechnya.
“He used to tell them look at your brothers, the mujaheddin. All of them are now in paradise living next to the prophet,” said Hassaine.

“He was always wearing Afghan or combat clothes. In the evening he offered some tea to the people who would sit with him to listen to the heroic action of the mujaheddin before joining the cleric for the finishing touch of brainwashing.

Posted by: RD   2006-01-06 01:17  

#1  He could eat an apple thru a tennis racquet. The hole in the neck is special, too.
Posted by: Grunter   2006-01-06 00:42  

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