Attorney: Yair Klein released from prison

[Scurrilous]

Lt.-Col. jailed in Russia for aiding Colombian terror organization set free, according to lawyer

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3987072,00.html

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"An attorney representing Lieutenant-Colonel (Res) Yair Klein, who was jailed in Russia for allegedly aiding a terror organization in Colombia, says his client has been set free and that he would arrive in Israel in the coming days.

Klein was sentenced to 11 years in prison by a Colombia court for advising a local terror organization under the command of drug lords in the city of Medellin in the 1980s and '90s.

He was arrested in Russia three years ago on an international warrant, but a European court refused to extradite him to Colombia, citing reports of other cases in which those extradited were apparently tortured. Moscow then appealed this decision.

Since his arrest, Klein's family has fought extradition on the grounds that it would mean certain death. On October 19 their efforts proved successful, as the court rejected Moscow's appeal."


From the archives:

Protest against extradition of Israeli who trained Escobar militia

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=124&topic_id=212196

[Ken Burch]

1. Don't tell me...let me guess...the NEED him in the West Bank.

n/t.

[oberliner]

2. The need for what?

That seems silly.

[Ken Burch]

3. Typo, which I didn't see until now...it should have read "THEY need him in the West Bank"

n/t.

[azurnoir]

4. Perhap he will be needed to welcome the next batch of

Falashim, he could give the women little diamond brooches........