Canadian court says Tunisian terror suspect can be extradited
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An appeals court has ruled a Canadian man should be extradited to the United States to face charges that he helped coordinate Tunisian jihadists believed responsible for a suicide attack in Iraq in 2009 that killed five American soldiers outside a U.S. base.
Sayfildin Tahir Sharif, who holds dual Canadian-Iraqi citizenship, was arrested in 2011 on a U.S. warrant and has been fighting extradition to New York.
The prosecution says intercepted phone and Internet conversations show Sharif helped jihadists contact members of a terror network as they travelled from Tunisia to Iraq for the attack. Sharif never left Canada as part of the alleged conspiracy.
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Sharif was appealing decisions that said there was enough evidence to extradite him on terrorism charges. The appeals court announced the decision Monday.