[bbfan1991]

Five suspected terrorists including Abu Hamza al-Masri can be extradited to the US, ending a long legal battle, UK High Court judges have ruled.

The radical cleric, Babar Ahmad, Syed Talha Ahsan, Adel Abdul Bary and Khaled al-Fawwaz failed to show "new and compelling" reasons not to send them.

Their appeal came after the European Court of Human Rights backed successive UK courts in ruling for extradition.

Judges said their extradition "may proceed immediately".

The Home Office has said will try to deport them "as quickly as possible".

Judges Sir John Thomas and Mr Justice Ousley said in their ruling that there was an "overwhelming public interest in the functioning of the extradition system" and that there was "no appeal from our decision".

The written ruling, read out in court, concluded that "each of the claimants' applications for permission to apply for judicial review or for a re-opening of the statutory appeals be dismissed".

"It follows that their extradition to the United States of America may proceed immediately."

Of Abu Hamza, whose lawyers argued he may not be fit to face trial on medical grounds, they said: "The sooner he is put on trial the better".

The judges rejected a plea by Abu Hamza to delay his extradition so he could undergo an MRI brain scan which, his lawyers said, could show he was unfit to plead because of degenerative problems.

The 54-year-old, a former imam at Finsbury Park mosque, north London, was suffering from chronic sleep deprivation and depression as a result of eight years in prison, his lawyers added.

The BBC's Dominic Casciani, at the High Court, said the British government had got the result it had wanted to see for eight years.

Great news.

[Marc]

Good.

[arista]

Yes America
keep him forever, please

[Livia]

Don't know why it's taken them so long.

[arista]

He got fast lawyers to stop him going on Health Grounds
last week when they said he is going


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...eal-fails.html

I think there is another thread on this

[Livia]

Originally Posted by arista

He got fast lawyers to stop him going on Health Grounds
last week when they said he is going


I think there is another thread on this

Yes... I know... it's just that the whole extradition process is so time-consuming, it's ridiculous. In these days of instant electronic transfer, he should have been out of the country and on a plane to the US about ten minutes after they asked for him.

Yes, I heard he was ill. Nothing trivial, I hope.

[MTVN]

Whole thing has been a bit of a farce, seems that tends to be the case with extraditions

[Marc]

Originally Posted by Livia

Don't know why it's taken them so long.

They needed a hand..

[joeysteele]

The plane should have been waiting for the announcement of this verdict and then have him straight on it.
Hopefully no more delays of any kind can surely arise now.

[Omah]

Result .....

[AnnieK]

It's the ridiculous pc world we live in. Regardless of what he has done he has to be given a fair hearing so his human rights are not infringed.... Crazy world

Good result though...hopefully he will now be punished for his crimes

[Jack_]

Originally Posted by anniek76

It's the ridiculous pc world we live in. Regardless of what he has done he has to be given a fair hearing so his human rights are not infringed.... Crazy world

Sorry...am I reading this right? It's crazy that we assume people are innocent until proven guilty, have a right to a fair trial and that we protect and uphold people's human rights regardless of who they are and what they have done (as is the safest, most sensible system)?

Like...seriously? You want that abolished?

[Mrluvaluva]

About time.

[Livia]

Originally Posted by Marc

They needed a hand..

At least they didn't let him off the hook.

[Marc]

Originally Posted by Livia

At least they didn't let him off the hook.

It got to a point where they just had to palm him off

[Livia]

Originally Posted by Marc

It got to a point where they just had to palm him off

But they kept an eye out for him though.

[arista]

He is on his way to a Army Airport

Ref:SkyNews

[Marc]

Originally Posted by Livia

But they kept an eye out for him though.

Eye personally cannot see how he can handle this amount of stress

[Tom4784]

I bet they've prepared a nice little room for him at Guantanemo.

[Livia]

Originally Posted by Marc

Eye personally cannot see how he can handle this amount of stress

The only one making a bomb now is his lawyer.

Just one more... He looks like a Swiss Army terrorist.

Right that's it. I'm out.

[Livia]

Originally Posted by Dezzy

I bet they've prepared a nice little room for him at Guantanemo.

He can try out for the Guantanemo Waterboarding Team. Not as much fun as it sounds.

[Saph]

why the US? will they use the death penalty on him?

[Livia]

Originally Posted by SaphLiike

why the US? will they use the death penalty on him?

He's wanted in the US on terror-related charges. Not sure about the death penalty... I could care less, but not much less.

[Nedusa]

They're probably in the air even as I type this....

[Nedusa]

Good riddance to bad rubbish , glad he and his hate filled, death worshipping ideology are finally leaving this country.