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AHMAD v. WIGEN

No. 1244, Docket 89-2503.

910 F.2d 1063 (1990)

Mahmoud El-Abed AHMAD, also known as "Mahmoud Abed Atta," Petitioner-Appellant, v. George WIGEN, as Warden of the Metropolitan Correctional Center of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Romolo J. Imundi, as United States Marshal for the Southern District of New York, James A. Baker, as Secretary of State of the United States and Richard Thornburgh, as Attorney General of the United States, Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided August 10, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ramsey Clark, New York City (Lawrence W. Schilling, Peter B. Meadow, New York City, of counsel), for petitioner-appellant.

Jacques Semmelman, Asst. U.S. Atty. E.D.N.Y., Brooklyn, N.Y. (Andrew J. Maloney, U.S. Atty., E.D.N.Y., John Gleeson, Asst. U.S. Atty., Brooklyn, N.Y., Murray R. Stein, U.S. Dept. of Justice, of counsel), for respondents-appellees.

Before VAN GRAAFEILAND, NEWMAN and KEARSE, Circuit Judges.

VAN GRAAFEILAND, Circuit Judge:

Mahmoud El-Abed Ahmad, also known as Mahmoud Abed Atta, appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Weinstein, J.), dismissing Ahmad's petition for a writ of habeas corpus, by means of which he hoped to escape extradition to Israel. See 726 F.Supp. 389. The United States seeks to extradite Ahmad to Israel to stand trial for his alleged...

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