Controversial Jamaican-born Muslim cleric, Sheik Abdullah Faisal was extradited to the United States today to face terrorism charges.
He’s been in the custody of the Police in Jamaica.
Faisal has been indicted by the New York City Police Department on five counts of terrorism.
He was placed on an airplane this morning and escorted to New York by US Marshalls.
In a statement this afternoon, the US Embassy in Kingston confirmed that the governments of Jamaica and the United States extradited Faisal, whose given name at birth is Trevor William Forest.
Faisal was deported from UK to Jamaica in 2007 after serving four years of a nine-year prison sentence in London.
There he’d been convicted of three charges of soliciting the murder of Jews, Americans, Hindus, and Christians.
He was also convicted on two charges of using threatening words to stir up racial hatred.
Last month, Jamaica’s Justice Minister, Delroy Chuck, signed a surrender warrant to the United States for Faisal to be extradited.
Faisal was arrested by the Police in Jamaica in August 2017.
He’s been in custody since.
Faisal had fought extradition to United States for approximately three years.
The way was cleared for him to be extradited when his appeal of the decision was denied by the Appeal Court.
