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Senator: U.S. Wants Israel to Extradite Palestinian

(Reuters) The Bush administration wants Israel to extradite a convicted Palestinian bomber to face the death penalty in the U.S. for killing three U.S. citizens in Israel in 1996, Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) told CNN Sunday. He said that U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft supported extraditing Hassan Salameh to the U.S. for a 1996 bus bombing in Jerusalem. "Attorney General Ashcroft told me that he was interested in doing this, and that we ought to pursue it and take up the specifics," he said. U.S. law considers the murder of any U.S. citizen, while outside the U.S., a capital crime. "I don't see any reason in the world why that man ought not to be brought back to the United States and tried in a U.S. court, where he can get the death penalty," Specter said.
2003-06-24 00:00:00
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