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LONDON – A British court agreed on Thursday to extradite a Syrian-born man to Spain where he is wanted in connection with the 2004 Madrid train bombings.
A judge ruled that Moutaz Almallah Dabas, who was arrested in London in March, would not be mistreated if he were returned to Spain.
"You will be extradited within the next 10 days," Judge Anthony Evans told Dabas at Bow Street Magistrates Court in central London.
Madrid accuses him of collaborating with an Islamist extremist organisation and "enabling the provision of care for radical Islamists in order to transfer them abroad".
He was detained under a new European arrest warrant which also accuses him of trying to indoctrinate others to become followers of al Qaeda's leader Osama bin Laden. The new warrants speed up the once-lengthy process of extradition within the European Union.
Dabas was born in the Syrian capital Damascus but holds Spanish citizenship.
The Madrid bombings killed nearly 200 people and helped sweep Spain's Socialist party to power on a wave of voter anger at the ruling conservatives' support for the U.S.-led war in Iraq and their attempts to blame the bombings on Basque separatists ETA.
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