Deputy Secretary of State William Clark is studying the legal aspects of Israel’s request for the extradition of a West Bank resident charged in a terrorist incident.
Israel reportedly has been pressing the State Department to make a decision in the case of Ziad Abu-Ein, 22, who is charged with participation in a bombing in Tiberias which took two lives and injured 36. Abu-Ein, who is from Ramallah, was arrested in Chicago more than two years ago. He has been held in prison without bail pending a decision on his extradition.
The decision fell to the State Department after the Supreme Court decided Oct. 13 not to review a lower court’s ruling that Abu-Ein could be extradited.
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