NEW YORK, Sept 25, 2007 (AFP) - A Lebanese-born Swedish man arrived in the United States Tuesday to face terrorism-related charges after being extradited by the Czech Republic, US authorities confirmed.

Oussama Kassir, 41, who had been held by the Czechs since December 2005, was handed over Tuesday morning to US Federal Bureau of Investigation agents in Prague to fly to New York, where he was to hear formal charges later Tuesday.

PRAGUE, Sept 25, 2007 (AFP) - The Czech Justice Ministry said Tuesday it had extradited a Lebanese-born Swedish suspect to the United States, where he faces terrorism-related charges.

'No reasons were found to refuse extradition...' of Oussama Kassir, the ministry said in a statement.

Prague said it had won assurances that the 40-year-old would be detained in a civilian jail and brought before a federal judge, not at the Guantanamo military base or before a military court.

PRAGUE, Sept 25, 2007 (AFP) - The Czech justice ministry said Tuesday it had extradited a Lebanese-born Swedish suspect to the United States, where he faces terrorism-related charges.

'No reasons were found to refuse extradition...' of Oussama Kassir, the ministry said in a statement.

Prague said it won assurances that the 40-year-old would be detained in a civilian jail and brought before a federal judge, not at the Guantanamo military base or before a military court.

TOKYO, Sept 23, 2007 (AFP) - Japan has remained tight-lipped about the extradition of former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori, a Japanese citizen whom Tokyo refused to hand over to Peru during his years of exile here.

Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura indicated that Japan would not get involved in the fate of the former Peruvian strongman, who failed in his bid for a seat in the Japanese parliament in July.

LIMA, Sept 22, 2007 (AFP) - Seven years after fleeing Peru, former president Alberto Fujimori was back in Lima Saturday to face trial on charges of corruption and responsibility in death squad massacres during his rule.

Fujimori, 69, was immediately flown by helicopter to a temporary detention facility at the Special Police Operations Directorate (DIREOS) after landing in Lima following his extradition from Chile.

LIMA, Sept 22, 2007 (AFP) - Seven years after fleeing Peru, former president Alberto Fujimori arrived in Lima Saturday to face trial on charges of corruption and responsibility in death squad massacres during his rule.

Fujimori had resigned by fax from a Tokyo hotel in 2000 after a 10-year presidency that ended with a corruption scandal and was followed by the Peruvian government's bid to extradite him to face charges including human rights abuse.

LIMA, Sept 22, 2007 (AFP) - Peru's ex-president Alberto Fujimori touched down in Lima Saturday after being extradited from Chile to face trial on charges of corruption and massacres by death squads during his rule.

The Peruvian police airplane carrying Fujimori arrived at a military airport south of the capital around 4:40 pm (2140 GMT), an AFP journalist at the scene said, seven years after the ex-leader fled the country amid a government corruption scandal.

LIMA, Sept 22, 2007 (AFP) - Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori arrived in Tacna in southern Peru on Saturday after he was extradited from Chile to stand trial on charges of corruption and killings by death squads under his rule, according to state television.

The Peruvian police jet carrying Fujimori was making a stop in Tacna before heading to the capital Lima after Chile's Supreme Court on Friday ordered his extradition. It was Fujimori's first trip to his home country after seven years in exile.

SANTIAGO, Sept 22, 2007 (AFP) - Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori was extradited from Chile on Saturday and bound for Lima to face trial on charges of corruption and massacres by death squads during his rule.

Television footage showed Fujimori boarding a Peruvian police jet under tight security at the Santiago airport to return to his home country after seven years in exile following his 1990-2000 rule.

SANTIAGO, Sept 22, 2007 (AFP) - Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori flew out of Santiago on Saturday for Lima after Chile's Supreme Court ordered his extradition to stand trial in Peru on human rights and corruption charges.

Escorted by Chilean police, Fujimori boarded a Peruvian police jet at the Santiago airport bound for Lima, where he will be tried for charges stemming from his 1990-2000 tenure as president.

SANTIAGO, Sept 22, 2007 (AFP) - Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori flew out of Santiago on Saturday for Lima after Chile's Supreme Court ordered his extradition to stand trial in Peru on human rights and corruption charges.

Escorted by Chilean police, Fujimori boarded a Peruvian police jet at the Santiago airport to be carried to Lima, where he will be tried for charges stemming from his 1990-2000 tenure as president.

SANTIAGO, Sept 22, 2007 (AFP) - Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori was expected to be extradited from Chile to Peru on Saturday to face trial on charges of corruption and the killing of 25 people by death squads during his rule.

A Peruvian police airplane flew out of the border city of Tacna late Friday on its way to Santiago to pick up Fujimori hours after Chile's Supreme Court ordered his extradition.

It was expected to return to Peru with the former president by about midday on Saturday.

SANTIAGO, Sept 21, 2007 (AFP) - Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori awaited Friday to be extradited from Chile to Peru to face trial on charges of corruption and the killing of 25 people by death squads during his rule.

A Peruvian police airplane flew out of the border city of Tacna late Friday on its way to Santiago to pick up Fujimori hours after Chile's Supreme Court ordered his extradition.

SANTIAGO, Sept 21, 2007 (AFP) - Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori, 69, lost a long legal battle Friday as Chile's Supreme Court ordered his extradition to Peru to face trial on corruption and human rights abuses.

The decision, which cannot be appealed, will send Fujimori back to his home country after seven years in exile to stand trial over alleged massacres and rampant graft during his 1990-2000 rule.

LIMA, Sept 21, 2007 (AFP) - Chile's supreme court decided to extradite Alberto Fujimori Friday on seven charges of human rights violations and corruption when he was president of Peru between 1990 and 2000.

The following are the charges:

-- Fujimori is accused of responsibility in 1991 and 1992 death-squad killings in Lima that left 25 people dead

-- Fujimori is accused of having ordered, known about and allowed the kidnapping and torturing of people considered opponents of his government

LIMA, Sept 21, 2007 (AFP) - Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori was ordered back to his home country Friday to face charges of corruption and human rights abuses, seven years after he fled the South American country. The following is a chronology of events leading to his extradition from Chile.

- Nov. 19, 2000: Fujimori flees to Japan, sends a fax to the Peruvian Congress presenting his resignation as president.

- Dec. 12, 2000: The Japanese government announces Fujimori holds Japanese nationality and as such cannot be extradited.

SANTIAGO, Sept 21, 2007 (AFP) - Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori, who lost a battle against extradition from Chile Friday, would be sent back to Peru by land and air in 'a few hours,' a senior police official said.

Police official Rene Castellon told a press conference they only needed the papers from the foreign ministry to proceed with Fujimori's extradition 'and that is probably going to happen in a few hours.'

LIMA, Sept 21, 2007 (AFP) - Peru said Friday that ex-president Alberto Fujimori would be treated correctly and receive a fair trial after Chile's high court ordered his extradition to Peru to face charges of rights abuses and corruption.

'The next step is to bring him to Lima and to offer guarantees of a fair trial,' Foreign Minister Jose Garcia Belaunde told CPN radio.

He said that the Chilean Supreme Court, which ordered Fujimori's extradition Friday, had carried out its work with 'responsibility, seriousness and independence.'

SANTIAGO, Sept 21, 2007 (AFP) - Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori will be extradited to Peru to face charges for corruption and human rights abuses during his 1990-2000 rule, Chile's Supreme Court announced Friday.

'We have awarded the extradition,' announced judge Alberto Chaigneau, adding that the court's decision was based on the weight of two charges of alleged human rights violations and six of corruption.

SANTIAGO, Sept 21, 2007 (AFP) - The decision by Chile's Supreme Court to extradite former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori back to his home country to face trial for human rights abuses is unprecedented, Human Rights Watch said Friday.

'This is the first time that a court has ordered the extradition of a former head of state to be tried for gross human rights violations in his home country,' the US-based organization said in a statement after the court released its decision Friday.

SANTIAGO, Sept 21, 2007 (AFP) - Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori will accept Chile's high court decision to have him extradited to Peru to face charges on human rights abuses and corruption, his lawyer said Friday.

'We will respect the decision of Chilean justice,' said defense lawyer Gabriel Zaliasnik after the Chilean Supreme Court delivered a final ruling approving Fujimori's extradition to Peru to stand trial.

SANTIAGO, Sept 21, 2007 (AFP) - Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori will be extradited to Peru after Chile's Supreme Court made a final, unappealable ruling on Lima's petition, a judicial source said Friday.

Fujimori has been fighting for two years to block his extradition from Chile to face charges in Peru over human rights abuses while he was the country's president from 1990 to 2000.

SANTIAGO, Sept 21, 2007 (AFP) - Chile's Supreme Court was set to announce Friday whether former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori will be extradited to Peru to stand trial over human rights crimes during his 1990-2000 rule.

A ruling in Peru's favor would send Fujimori, 69, back to his home country to face a series of charges seven years after he fled to Japan and resigned amid a corruption scandal.

The court's judgment, which cannot be appealed, was expected early Friday, said court spokesman Cristian Fuenzalida.

SANTIAGO, Sept 21, 2007 (AFP) - Chile's Supreme Court was set to announce Friday whether former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori will be extradited to Peru to stand trial for human rights crimes under his watch as president from 1990-2000.

The court's judgment, which cannot be appealed, was expected early Friday, said court spokesman Cristian Fuenzalida.

SANTIAGO, Sept 20, 2007 (AFP) - Chile's Supreme Court will announce a final decision on whether to extradite Alberto Fujimori to Peru early Friday, court spokesman Cristian Fuenzalida said Thursday.

The court's judgment, which cannot be appealed, will determine whether Fujimori be sent to Peru to stand trial over alleged human rights crimes while he was president from 1990-2000.

SANTIAGO, Sept 11, 2007 (AFP) - Chile's high court ruling on Peru's request to extradite ex-leader Alberto Fujimori on human rights abuse charges, has been delayed and will not come this week, a court spokesman said Tuesday.

Supreme Court sources earlier said the ruling would be announced this week but on Tuesday said the announcement would come after a government holiday, no sooner than September 20.

High court judges have been reviewing the case after a single judge ruled in July in Fujimori's favor against the extradition.

SANTIAGO, Sept 10, 2007 (AFP) - Chilean judges made a final ruling Monday on Peru's request to extradite ex-leader Alberto Fujimori on human rights abuse charges but decided to keep their decision a secret for now, judicial sources said.

The five judges considering the final appeal arrived at an 'agreement' that will seal Fujimori's fate but decided to keep their ruling 'reserved and secret,' though the opinion was likely to be made public by the end of next week, according to judicial sources consulted by AFP.

MIAMI, Sept 9, 2007 (AFP) - Panamanian ex-dictator Manuel Noriega remained in his Miami jail cell Sunday, the day of his previously scheduled release, as his lawyers appealed his extradition to France on charges of money laundering.

The US Bureau of Prisons on Sunday listed Noriega's projected release date as 'unknown.' The agency had indicated earlier the aging dictator would be out on Sunday after serving 17 years for drug trafficking.

US authorities hope to promptly fly Noriega, 73, out upon his release, to face a new trial in France.

MIAMI, Sept 9, 2007 (AFP) - The fate of jailed ex-Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega remained unclear after his lawyers notified a US court in Miami they will appeal his extradition to France on charges of money laundering.

The aging general was initially expected to be released on Sunday from the Miami prison where he served 17 years for drug traffficking, only to be flown to France to face trial there.

MIAMI, Sept 8, 2007 (AFP) - Manuel Noriega's fate remained unclear Saturday after lawyers for the ex-Panamanian dictator launched a new bid to block his extradition to France on charges of money laundering following his release from a Miami jail.

The aging general initially had been expected to be released on Sunday after serving 17 years for drug trafficking, and flown to France to face trail there.

MIAMI, Sept 7, 2007 (AFP) - A US judge on Friday rejected a second bid to block Manuel Noriega's extradition to France on money-laundering charges, clearing the way for the jailed former Panamanian dictator to be flown out of Miami within days.

William Hoeveler lifted a temporary stop he had imposed on extradition proceedings, and made it clear Noriega, 73 can be flown out after his scheduled release on Sunday from a Miami cell where he has served 17 years for drug trafficking.

MIAMI, Sept 7, 2007 (AFP) - General Manuel Noriega was a ruthless military dictator, who struck fear into the hearts of his countrymen during his years in power in Panama when for much of the time he was backed by the United States.

Born to a poor family with Colombian roots in 1934, he abandoned his early dreams of becoming a psychiatrist due his lack of means, enlisting instead in the military.

It was here he found his calling and was soon promoted to lieutenant.

SANTIAGO, Sept 7, 2007 (AFP) - Chilean President Michelle Bachelet denied reports that her government tried to postpone a ruling on extraditing Peru's ex-leader Alberto Fujimori on human rights abuse charges, vowing Friday to respect the court's decision.

'The government has not been involved in pressure of any kind' on the Supreme Court to put off its ruling, Bachelet told Chilean reporters on a visit to Sydney, in comments reported here.

MIAMI, Sept 6, 2007 (AFP) - Ex-dictator Manuel Noriega is battling from his Miami jail cell to avoid going to trial in France, stirring renewed controversy 17 years after the United States invaded Panama to capture its former ally whose drug trafficking had become an embarrassment.

With days to go before his initially planned September 9 release, Noriega's lawyers engaged in a renewed attempt to block their client's extradition to France, where he faces money laundering charges.

MIAMI, Sept 6, 2007 (AFP) - Lawyers for former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega seeking to block his extradition to France argued Thursday that contrary to US assurances Paris would not treat him as a prisoner of war.

Quoting the French ambassador to Panama, Noriega's lawyers said in court documents that the 73-year-old would be just treated as a common criminal in violation of the Geneva Conventions.

SANTIAGO, Sept 6, 2007 (AFP) - The Chilean government has asked the country's Supreme Court to postpone its decision on extraditing former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori so that it does not come while Chile's president is visiting Japan, according to a press report Thursday.

According to La Tercera newspaper, President Michelle Bachelet's government wants the court to delay the long-awaited ruling on Japanese-Peruvian Fujimori while she takes a trip to Tokyo and Hiroshima between Friday and Wednesday, so as not to cause any 'inconvenience.'

MIAMI, Sept 5, 2007 (AFP) - A US judge Wednesday ordered authorities to hold off from extraditing Manuel Noriega, pending a claim that France would renege on a commitment to treat the Panamanian former strongman as a prisoner of war.

In a written order, Judge William Hoeveler told Noriega's lawyers to present on Thursday morning 'credible evidence' to support their allegation that France does not intend to abide by the Geneva Conventions' rules on prisoners of war.