Spain yesterday approved the extradition to France of an Algerian suspected of plotting to bomb the European Parliament in Strasbourg under orders from the Saudi billionaire, Mr Osama bin Laden, a legal source said.
Spain's highest penal court accepted an international extradition warrant issued by a French judge after the suspect, Mr Mohammad Bensakhria, agreed earlier yesterday to be transferred to France.
Mr Bensakhria, 34, was arrested on Friday in Alicante, south-east Spain. Mr bin Laden is on the American FBI's 10-most-wanted list for the bombing of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, which killed 224 people.