The county ordered Prisoner Transportation Services of America, the nation's largest private extradition service, to send a van to pick Galack up at the Florida jail where he was being held.
The July 6 Times article, jointly prepared by a reporter for the newspaper and a staff writer for The Marshall Project, a non-profit newsgroup on criminal justice, recounts deaths and serious injuries suffered by private extradition service passengers.
He may also reckon that by hitting the West hard on missile defence, he may exacerbate divisions in the Western camp.The tone of Mr Putin's latest comments also reflects a mood of mounting tension after the request by Britain's Crown Prosecution Service for the extradition of a former KGB officer, Andrei Lugovoi.
The Germans let it be known that this was because the Croatian government was blocking the extradition of former Yugoslav secret-service agents wanted in Germany for the 1983 murder of a Croatian defector.
The police detained the separatist leader, Akhmed Zakayev, who has denied the Russian charges, shortly after his arrival in Warsaw, though a Polish court later ordered his release, pending a ruling on his extradition to Russia, according to news services.
The Crown Prosecution Service in Britain has sought the extradition of Mr. Lugovoi, whom it accused in May of killing Alexander V. Litvinenko last year with polonium 210.
The situation may be further aggravated by a recent decision of the Metropolitan police service management board to delegate responsibility for extraditions to police forces around the country.
Neither Soca, the Metropolitan police, whose extradition unit arrested Assange in December 2010, nor the Crown Prosecution Service would comment.
Many of the recent cases involving extradition to the US were ones that the Crown Prosecution Service was simply not interested in taking up.
But John Spencer, a spokesman for the British Crown Prosecution Service in London, which represents the United States in extradition hearings, said Mr. Masri could still be sent to the United States provided the American authorities agreed not to impose the death penalty.
Britain is seeking the extradition of the main suspect, former KGB and Russian security service officer Andrei Lugovoi, to stand trial in the UK, but Russia says there is not enough evidence to justify handing him over.
