BAGHDAD: An Iraqi court has rejected a request to send a Hezbollah
commander to the United States for trial, a decision that apparently ends the
Obama administration’s efforts to prosecute the Lebanese man held in Iraq for
the 2007 killings of five American soldiers. The U.S. believes Ali Moussa
Daqduq is a top threat to Americans in the Middle East, and had asked Baghdad
to extradite him even before two Iraqi courts found him not guilty of
masterminding the 2007 raid on an American military base in the holy Shiite
city of Karbala. But the July 30 decision by the Iraqi central criminal court
ordered that Daqduq be freed immediately. It also made it clear that Iraq
believes the legal case against him is over.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Local-News/2012/Aug-03/183228-iraq-blocks-extradition-for-hezbollah-commander.ashx#axzz22OD0d0aY
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