IP: Spain Sets Hurdle for Extraditions (fwd)

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> From: David Lesher <wb8foz () nrk com>
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/24/international/europe/24SPAI.html?pagewanted=print
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> November 24, 2001
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> Spain Sets Hurdle for Extraditions
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> By SAM DILLON with DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
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> MADRID, Nov. 23 -- Spain will not extradite the eight men it
> has charged with complicity in the Sept. 11 attacks unless the
> United States agrees that they would be tried by a civilian court
> and not by the military tribunals envisioned by President Bush,
> Spanish officials said today.
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> The officials said the United States was informed this week of
> the Spanish stance, and several experts predicted today that
> other countries in the 15-nation European Union would balk at
> handing prisoners over to the Americans without similar guarantees.
>
> ..........
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> ISTM there's a bitter irony in Spain teaching the US about
> the value of due process....


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