UK extradites terror suspect to US
An alleged al-Qaeda operative accused of planning to launch terror attacks worldwide has been extradited from Britain to the United States, Scotland Yard said.
Abid Naseer was taken from Britain’s Belmarsh Prison to Luton Airport on January 3 before extradition to the US, where he faces allegations of a bomb plot, feeding intelligence to al-Qaeda and acting as the organization’s agent.
The 26-year-old was arrested in 2010 on suspicion of being a British-based al-Qaeda cell member, plotting attacks in the US and Britain.
Naseer was allegedly involved in planning to attack a target likely in St Ann's Square or the Arndale shopping centre in Manchester.
Officers from the Metropolitan Police’s Extradition Unit arrested Naseer and 12 other men in the north east of England following a request from the US government.
US prosecutors want to put him on trial for a crime he has not yet committed over suspicions that the Manchester plot, which did not go ahead, was part of a bigger conspiracy engineered against New York.
Source http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/01/04/281722/uk-extradites-terror-suspect-to-us/
Abid Naseer was taken from Britain’s Belmarsh Prison to Luton Airport on January 3 before extradition to the US, where he faces allegations of a bomb plot, feeding intelligence to al-Qaeda and acting as the organization’s agent.
The 26-year-old was arrested in 2010 on suspicion of being a British-based al-Qaeda cell member, plotting attacks in the US and Britain.
Naseer was allegedly involved in planning to attack a target likely in St Ann's Square or the Arndale shopping centre in Manchester.
Officers from the Metropolitan Police’s Extradition Unit arrested Naseer and 12 other men in the north east of England following a request from the US government.
US prosecutors want to put him on trial for a crime he has not yet committed over suspicions that the Manchester plot, which did not go ahead, was part of a bigger conspiracy engineered against New York.
Source http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/01/04/281722/uk-extradites-terror-suspect-to-us/
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