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5 Terror Suspects Extradited to U.S.

Group includes radical cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri.

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MAX NASH

After losing a long battle to avoid charges, five terror suspects were extradited to the U.S. from Britain—and at least two of them are expected in court in New Haven, Conn., on Saturday. The group, which includes cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri, who allegedly turned a London mosque into a training ground for radicals, was ordered to the U.S. by a British judge who ruled Friday that the suspects had no more grounds for appeal. The appeals process for the men had lasted between eight and 14 years, during which they claimed they would face human-rights violations in a U.S. prison.

Read it at The Associated Press

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