Terror charge man loses bid to delay US extradition

8:24am Thursday 29th November 2007

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A Tooting computer expert has lost a bid to get the High Court to suspend his extradition to the United States on terror charges.

Babar Ahmad, 32, had applied to the court to challenge the Home Secretary's refusal to delay his extradition to allow time for civil proceedings against the Met Police over assault.

But the court ruled he had no case against the Home Secretary.

Mr Ahmad is accused of running websites raising funds for the Taleban, inciting murder, and encouraging holy war.

In a separate case at the High Court last year, his lawyers argued Mr Ahmad risked being mistreated by the US authorities, including the risk of being kept indefinitely at Guantanamo Bay.

But the judges said the claims were not proven, saying they were "acting on the faith that the United States will be true to the spirit and the letter" of diplomatic agreements exchanges with the British Government and their obligations under the two countries' extradition treaty.

Mr Ahmad was arrested under anti-terror laws in August 2004.

He was charged with terror crimes by a US court two months later.