US To Seek Extradition

ISLAMABAD Thursday - The United States will seek to extradite Osama bin Laden and any other senior al-Qaeda or Taliban leaders captured in Afghanistan or Pakistan, a senior official said here Thursday. Kenton Keith, spokesman for the US-led coalition, said Osama bin Laden is caught, the United States would press for his extradition. Britain and other coalition members have said they would need assurances that bin Laden will not face the death penalty if extradited to the United States. US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said in Washington earlier that hundred of bin Laden’s al Qaeda fighters had been detained by Afghan militia and across the border by the Pakistani forces. AFP Ends