Yemenis extradited to US

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Berlin - Germany has extradited two Yemenis to the United States on charges that they supported the al-Qaeda terrorist network, prosecutors in Frankfurt said on Monday.

The two men, Sheikh Ali Hassan al-Moayad and his alleged assistant, Mohammed Mohsen Yahya Zayed, were picked up on Sunday by American officials and flown out of the Rhine-Main Air Base near Frankfurt by the US Air Force, said Hildegard Becker-Toussaint, speaking for Frankfurt prosecutors.

The move came after the Federal Constitutional Court ruled on Thursday that the two could expect a fair trial in the United States, rejecting the complaints they filed against lower-court decisions backing extradition.

http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1446507,00.html

We'll show ya some GOP Southern justice from the highest tree!

[Robb]

1. Are there death penalty issues?

For Germany, as a signatory to the European Convention of Human Rights? :shrug:

[Kellanved]

2. no

Otherwise there would have been no extradition - no need for the supreme Court to decide. The US had to further guarantee that he would be judged by a court and not a military tribunal.

The problem was that Mujad had been tricked to come to Germany - by US agents. The court had to check if German agents had helped them doing it or not - if that had been the case the whole thing would've been a breach of international law.

At the moment the lawyers are trying to undo the extradition by petitioning the German parliament and the European court for Human Rights.