Two former Guantánamo Bay detainees accused by Spain of membership of an al-Qaida cell in Madrid will not be extradited from the UK after a Spanish judge ruled they were not fit to stand trial.
While they may live in fear of so-called "star whackers," the Hollywood couple Randy and Evi Quaid are momentarily safe from United States authorities and will not be extradited from Canada, The Associated Press reported.
The outcome contrasted sharply with a ruling by the same European Court in January that another radical Islamic preacher, Abu Qatada, regarded as one of Al Qaeda's main inspirational leaders in Europe, could not be extradited from Britain to his native Jordan.
In January, the European court ruled that Abu Qatada, wanted in Jordan on terrorism charges dating to the late 1990s, could not be extradited from Britain because a promised retrial in Jordan would be flawed.
One such option could be for Britain to offer a guarantee that Assange will not be extradited from Sweden to the United States.
+ The man arrested on suspicion of the March gun attack at the Bardo Museum in Tunisia will not be extradited from Italy, a court rules.
But Ecuador's Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino said on Wednesday he was optimistic the British government would agree to give Assange written guarantees that he would not be extradited from Sweden to any third country.
The only right thing is that Gary McKinnon is not extradited.
He was not extradited to Croatia.
Some of Ling's alleged victims said they were told police could not extradite him from the US for questioning.
