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Abid Naseer, 26, was extradited from Britain to the United States on Thursday.
LONDON -- A Pakistani man accused by U.K. authorities of being an al-Qaida operative who took part in a plot to bomb U.S. and British targets was extradited to the United States on Thursday to face terrorism charges.
Abid Naseer, 26, was one of a dozen men arrested in April 2009 on suspicion of preparing to cause mass casualties by bombing Manchester city center in northern England.
He and the other suspects were never charged, but Britain said in addition to the alleged Manchester plot, Naseer was part of a wider al-Qaida cell bent on staging attacks in the United States and Norway.
On Thursday, he was taken by counter-terrorism police from a high security prison in east London to Luton airport, north of the British capital, and handed over to U.S. officials.
He is wanted for trial in the United States for his alleged role in planned suicide bomb attacks on New York City subways in 2009, for which a number of men have already been convicted.
He faces three charges: providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization; conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization; and conspiracy to use a destructive device.
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Naseer and 11 others, mostly students from Pakistan, were arrested in daylight raids in 2009 after Britain's most senior counter-terrorism officer was photographed openly carrying details about the operation.
'Very big terrorist plot'
Britain's then-prime minister, Gordon Brown, said officers were dealing with a "very big terrorist plot," but no explosives were found and all the men were later released as there was not enough evidence to charge them.
Britain's case against them had been based around emails exchanged between Naseer and a Pakistan account believed to be registered to an al-Qaida operative.
British authorities said the emails, which appeared to be discussions about girlfriends and wedding plans, in fact related to ingredients for explosives and they said Naseer posed a serious threat to national security.
The men were ordered to be deported to Pakistan but Naseer won an appeal against the decision because of fears he would be mistreated if he was returned.
He was arrested again in July 2010 when the U.S. warrant was issued, and last month European Court of Human Rights rejected his appeal against the extradition.
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Good. May he rot.
hahahaha...oh, way too funny...the poor little mass murderer wannabe is worried about mistreatment - his own - and from his own countrymen...hahahahaha
the best part about all this is he will probably live better as an inmate in a US prison than "free" in
Genocidestan...er...i mean Pakistan.The worst part is that Islamic Paki maniacs like Abid Naseer, who are liabilities wherever they are, are permitted into Britain, US, European nations and other non-Muslim nations.
Our police, intelligence, courts and human rights groups dance in circles (sometimes in big circles) to punish them.
What a waste of tax monies and resources!
Why permit such curses on earth in the first place?
GM Chefaz
Agreed. he is a citizen of Pakistan. send his butt there. preferably with a bible glued to his hand and wearing a god bless the usa t-shirt. and sporting his new Allah sucks tattoo on his forehead.
A very fine good morning to you IA. Hope the New Year is treating you well.
LOVE your ideas. Reminiscent of the ending of the old WWII classic Stalag 17 when they tied the snitch up with tins cans and tossed him the yard at night.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDATx1_KL78
Since he didn´t actually carry out his plan,he can´t be hung or shot.Life in prison and no special privileges like a beard..like that mass murderer Pakistani doctor is fooling around with.If he wants a Muslim diet give it to him.but no special privileges.Give him his koran if he wants but keep him away from other Muslim terrorists so they don´t hatch up any more mass murders.If he starts babbling away with Muslim chants, and bothers other inmates,tape up his mouth. ..Let him play with himself if he wants but no special virgins ...This brainwashed devil will have plenty of time to review his "kill the infidel" mentality. Just a few ideas ..
I hope he likes our Prison Cable TV, Food and Medical care. Lets not abuse his civil rights
It's shameful we make our VIOLENT (including thieves) prisoners so comfortable...but two wrongs don't make a right.
Sure!
Islamic haters and killers have all civil rights and human rights.
When they blow us up, all our laws, civil rights and human rights are either in hospitals or hell/heaven!
ProI - yes they do
We (being me) have a saying where I come from - do not bet more than you are willing to lose
If the prize is to take someone elses life than the bet is your own.
When I buy a Lotto ticket my only guarentee is that I will walk away from the sales counter $ 1 poorer
($ 1 is all I am willing to lose)
Trials? I thought we put suspects DIRECTLY in prison WITHOUT any trials - and make them stay there for like for a decade or longer - ala Gitmo. Since when did we start justifying a prisoner's detention and imprisonment? Since when did the writ of habeas corpus make a come back? How can we defeat terrorism if we assume that people are innocent before proven guilty?!
Good sarcasm...I hope.
Why do we give these people any due process? They deserve none. They give their victims none. And, why are they in a civilian court? This is war, not a Perry Mason episode. Put them in a military prison for military trial.
A military trial IS due process, Pray.
About time we started holding trials for these monsters. "Unalienable" means "not subject to law or border"...it means no matter what your citizenship or where you are born or caught, whether you are an enemy or not, you are entitled to a fair trial. That way when you're guilty we have a reasonable surity you weren't railroaded, and we get the ethical and legal high ground. All of our "Constitutional" rights are actually unalienable negative individual natural rights ACKNOWLEDGED by that document, not granted by the document, and not able to be repealed or infringed without being tyrannical (the Founders and Framers didn't believe in collective rights at all, as both Federalists and Anti-Federalists were classical liberals philosphically). That means they apply to all humans, not just us.
This is a step toward regaining that moral and legal high ground we used to have...showing the world we do respect individual unalienable natural rights like we used to, not just OUR rights (there is no citizenship requirement for unalienable rights). And the evidence is overwhelming, so these guys are done for when trials commence.
Now, if we could just stop surveiling ourselves with drones, warrantless wiretaps and internet snooping, get rid of the totally anti-rights Presidential kill list that isn't subject to judicial review, and ditch NDAA, FISA, TSA, and the USA PATRIOT Act we might be on the right track to being a really free country again. It'd help if we ended the Drug War too (since its got racist results despite no conspiracy to commit racism, locks up 50% of prisoners for nonviolent crimes, which has turned us into the most incarcerated nation in history, both per capita and in total, and causes 40-70% of all murder and gun murder in this country), stopped proping up brutal regimes overseas by nation building and fighting wars that are not in self defense, but instead are wars of aggression and occupation (including fake "humanitarian" pseudo-wars), and stop torturing people (which prevents our ability to try them in court) and kidnaping them and sending them to secret prisons (extroidinary rendition). It'd be a good start.
In short, we're still in very bad shape in terms of liberty, but at least this is a ray of hope. All relativity (to other nations) aside, we've got a lot of work to do.
BTW...I'm not conservative or liberal/progressive...I'm libertarian. So please don't attack me with the usual (or any) ad hominems. I'm more free market and small govt than you conservatives, and more for civil liberties in social issues (and in general) than you liberals...so stick to the debate without attacking the debater please (if you can find any reason to disagree with the logic and reason of what I've said).
Apparently you are unaware that the word "unalienable" doesn't appear in the Constitution. It is in the Declaration of Independence.
Nice thought, but wrong. The word "right" or "rights" appears in the Constitution 19 times. If what you say is true, then Islamic terrorists have the right to
"vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States"
I don't think so, Tim.
gm Bill
had appointments all yesterday morning and was up at 3 gone at 6, tough day.
ProIndividual (bunchanumbers)
trouble with your argument is the "rights" of which you speak are meant for members of the human race for the production of a modern civil society. when he gave up the ideals of same he gave those up as well.
Screw the "ethical and legal high ground". These people are terrorists. Our neurotic need for ethical superiority will be the end of us.
"Britain said in addition to the alleged Manchester plot, Naseer was part of a wider al-Qaida cell bent on staging attacks in the United States and Norway."
Just see the long wish list for blowing up!
Time has come to wipe out the fountainheads of Islamic hating, killing, terrorism and genocides, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan to ground.
One can't still believe how Saudi Arabia and Pakistan are allies?
Would somebody please just drop this fool !!
I thought this was A WAR on terrorism, not running around the world arresting terrorist and wasting much needed tax dollars on crap like him.
Double Tap
God Damn Lawyers!
That includes Liberals
Out with his tongue, off with his fingers and toes, make him into a
womanbeetch and place him into general population in federal detention. I bet they know how to deal with him!The Paki and Saudi haters, killers, rapists, looters and fantasizing Sunni Islamic Nazis need special treatment.
Our current prison system can't handle these Islamic religious mad people!
I agree. Why let them live?
This is the problem with our modern day enemies, any man or group declares war on us how do you stop it by playing by our rule of laws? You can't. Human intel, drones and special forces who are willing and able to terminate with extreme prejudice is the only way. Can't call these goat fukkers a guerrilla army, too many different ideologies and egos but look at how easily they have tied down our country. Kill them all is the only answer.
Shave his beard, feed him pulled pork sandwiches and beer, then execute him. It's what Al-Qaida would do to any American!
al Qaida killer gangsters drag, maim and then execute Americans with many "love" and "peace" Muslims cheering on the sides!
Drag, maim and then kill are one of the verieties of Islamic killings.
If it is girls or women, then it is worse! Wild beasts may be better.
But first....a little vacation in gitmo. Remember when the candidate Obama was going to shut Gitmo down in a year?
isn't he the same guy who said in 2008 "if i cannot fix this economy in my first term i don't deserve a second term ".........that guy?
Wait 'til this punk meets Bubba and his pals in the pen.
Breaking News : Al-Jazeera Buys Current TV from Al Gore
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/hypocrite-gore-current-sale/2013/01/04/id/470048
Conservatives are calling him a hypocrit because he wants to spread mutal awareness between the Middle East and America by providing those who do not have a voice with a platform for voicing their views.
Just wait until Ann Coulter gets ahold of this. She will be labeling him as a terrorist because she cannot convert the Muslim into one of her sociopathic delusional readers.
Say by Fox News - Moving to Current TV and RT.
There goes America again policing the whole damn world like they own it.