Abu Hamza launches last-minute high court challenge to extradition

Abu Hamza al-Masri has launched a last-minute appeal to the high court to block his imminent extradition to the US to stand trial on terrorism charges.

A second terror suspect, Khaled al-Fawwaz, who also faces being sent to the US, has started a legal challenge to his extradition as well. Fawwaz has been detained in Britain since 1998 when he was accused of being involved in the bombing of American embassies in three east African capitals.

The two terror suspects are among a group of five cases that the European court of human rights finally cleared for extradition to the US after an eight-year legal battle. The decision by five European judges on Monday to reject their final appeals meant that all legal avenues under the extradition laws were finally exhausted. The home secretary is expected to put them on a plane within the next two to three weeks.

They all claimed that they faced inhumane and degrading treatment if they were convicted in America and sentenced to serve time in a "super-max" high security prison.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/sep/26/abu-hamza-high-court-challenge?newsfeed=true

Obviously intent of wasting more tax payer money.