The case is considered an important one for U.S.U.S. authorities want Masri extradited to face allegations that he tried to set up a training camp in Bly, Ore., for would-be insurgents in Afghanistan and that he was involved in the kidnapping of a group of Western tourists in Yemen in 1998.
By: burberry ties The court said Abu Hamza Masri and four other terrorism suspects could be sent to face trial in the U.S. without fear that they would face "inhuman and degrading" conditions in a maximum-security prison if convicted. The men had argued that they could be subject to solitary confinement for the rest of their lives in a so-called 'supermax" prison in Colorado where many terrorism convicts are serving time. The case is considered an important one for U.S.-Europe relations, because a ruling against extradition would have been tantamount to a denunciation of the American judicial and corrections system and could have dealt a blow to anti-terrorism cooperation across the Atlantic. The five men will not be immediately deported, however, despite the British government's pledge to "ensure that the suspects are handed over to the U.S. authorities as quickly as possible." The suspects have three months to appeal the decision to the European court's Grand Chamber, but such appeals are rarely taken up. The Egyptian-born Masri, the most prominent of the five men, shot to notoriety in Britain as the imam of a North London mosque who preached sermons extolling the Sept. 11 attacks, demanding the stoning of gay people and calling for the death of nonbelievers. He is currently serving a seven-year sentence in a British prison for inciting murder and racial hatred. U.S. authorities want Masri extradited to face allegations that he tried to set up a training camp in Bly, Ore., for would-be insurgents in Afghanistan and that he was involved in the kidnapping of a group of Western tourists in Yemen in 1998. The European court, based in Strasbourg, France, rejected the men's contention that their human rights would be violated if they were sent to the Administrative Maximum, or ADX, facility in Florence, Colo. In addition, inmates at ADX Florence, "although confined to their cells for the vast majority of the time," are given access to 'services and activities (television, radio, newspapers, books, hobby and craft items, telephone calls, social visits, correspondence with families, group prayer)" that go beyond what most prisons in Europe provide, the judges noted. http://www.designerburberryoutlet.com http://www.cheapburberryoutlet2012.com http://www.fashiontoy.com http://www.egalass.com/ http://www.louisvuitonoutlet.com http://www.monsterbeats- End
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