Ahmad v. Wigen ex rel. Metropolitan Correctional Center of the Federal Bureau of Prisons

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 terrorist attack on a bus. After a hearing held pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3184, Judge Korman of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York granted the…