UNITED KINGDOM. BRITON 'MAY FACE EXECUTION' IF EXTRADITED TO US

Babar Ahmad, a British terrorist suspect, could face the death penalty or imprisonment in Guantánamo Bay if extradited to the US, his lawyers said. 
US authorities wanted to try Babar Ahmad, 30, from Tooting, south-west London, for allegedly running websites and sending emails to raise money for the fighting in Chechnya and Afghanistan.
The extradition hearing at Bow Street magistrates court, central London, was adjourned to give US government lawyers more time to assess whether there was a risk that he could be put into military detention, where he could face the death penalty.
Thomas Loflin, a US civil rights lawyer and expert witness for the defence, said there was no stipulation in the extradition treaty that Mr Ahmad had to be tried in a civilian court, or as to where he would be detained. John Hardy, for the US government, did not concede that transfer to a military jurisdiction would necessarily amount to a denial of a fair trial, but accepted the defence argument that if Mr Ahmad were transferred to a military jurisdiction there was no apparent bar to the death penalty or transfer to a third state.