The British government will try to speed up the extradition process after an eight-year legal battle to send radical preacher Abu Hamza to the United States, Prime Minister David Cameron said Saturday. Abu Hamza and four other terror suspects were flown out of Britain overnight to the United States, just hours after the High Court in London threw out the men’s final appeal against their removal. “I’m absolutely delighted that Abu Hamza is now out of this country,” Cameron said. “Like the rest of the public I’m sick to the back teeth of people who come here, threaten our country, who stay at vast expense to the taxpayer and we can’t get rid of them.” The United States first requested Abu Hamza’s extradition in 2004 and it was approved in 2008 but the case then spent another four years in the European Court of Human Rights. The former imam of the hardline Finsbury Park mosque in north London, Abu Hamza is wanted in the United States on charges including setting up an Al-Qaeda-style training camp for militants in the northwestern US state of Oregon.
