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Abu Hamza finally US-bound

Radical Islamist preacher Abu Hamza and four other terror suspects were on their way from Britain to the United States on Saturday after a court rejected their last-ditch court bid to block their extradition.

A police motorcade believed to contain radical Islamist preacher Abu Hamza and four other terror suspects leaves Long Lartin prison in central England on Friday night.

A legal saga that has dragged on for more than a decade in the courts of Britain and Europe finally ended when the Egyptian-born former imam was whisked from prison and flown out of a military airbase.

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