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Who is Ali Bazi? I cannot find anything on the guy.
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His brother was killed in a firefight with UN troops in the town of At Tiri in 1980. He took it personally, got a gang of friends together and captured, if memory serves, three Irish soldiers. He executed two, the third was wounded whilst making a break for it.
In the mid -80s, he moved to the US. All attempts to extradite him (Including one after the post 9/11 legislation) have failed. Primarily a matter of jurisdiction, I believe. He committed his crime in the Lebanon, the argument goes that the Irish have no jurisdiction there. (Which differs from the Hamadi case how?)
It's considered something of a sore, if not-well-known point in the appropriate Irish circles, and may be part of the reason most recent extraditrion requests from Ireland to the US have been denied. (At least the ones where death penalties are not concerned).
[ETA: Mohammed Bazi, seems to be the same chap. Irish newspaper article called him 'Ali', might use his middle name on occasion I guess?]
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