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Update: Tuesday, 6 January 2009    

First extradition of terrorism-suspected to Algeria First extradition of terrorism-suspected to Algeria

Agreements being concluded with London
Sunday Jun 18 2006.

British Home Office announced on Thursday the extradition of an Algerian suspected of terrorism related activities to his original country.




The British ministry says that three other Algerians refused to appeal the extradition decision which will lead them to be extradited within some days. Figures shows that sixteen Algerians are still in British jails and are expected to be extradited in virtue of the security and juridical agreements signed between Algeria and Great-Britain last week.

The British authorities consider the extradition of the Algerian prisoner as a step aiming to move aside any foreigners they see as a threat for British security. The concerned decided to give up the appeal he lodged against his extradition decision, the British Home Office said. The Algerian suspected is then the first to be extradited for security reasons, British Home office’s spokesman says. Algeria and Great Britain inaugurate thus a new era for security bilateral cooperation, the speakers adds. Sixteen Algerians, arrested in August and September 2005 for terrorism, are still in British prisons.

They are in fact just suspected of having links with terrorist activities. However, British authorities say they are persona non grata, and the British Immigration Office will take the operation in charge. Some officials from that body have accompany the Algerian in question since his release until he arrived to the airport, last Friday, from where he took flied to Algiers, media sources said. Note worthy that the visit of Kim Howells, the British delegated minister at the British foreign Office for the Middle-East and North Africa, ended by the signature of four agreements relating chiefly to extradition of suspected people.

Atef Kedadra — El-Khabar

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