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  • Portugal court refuses to send US fugitive home

    11/18/2011 5:50:57 AM PST · by nuconvert · 4 replies
    A Portuguese court has denied a U.S. request for the extradition of captured American fugitive who spent 41 years on the run in a journey that took him across three continents, and included the brazen 1972 hijacking of a jet from America to Algeria.
  • U.S. Fugitive Claims New Identity [1962 murderer/1972 hijacker George Wright, held in Portugal]

    10/02/2011 12:47:06 AM PDT · by Hunton Peck · 10 replies
    Associated Press ^ | October 01, 2011 | unattributed
    Captured American fugitive George Wright will claim a new identity to prevent the U.S. from extraditing him, his lawyer said Saturday. Wright, 68, became a Portuguese citizen, called Jose Luis Jorge dos Santos, in 1991 after marrying a Portuguese woman, lawyer Manuel Luis Ferreira told The Associated Press. Ferreira said in an interview that Wright's new identity was given to him by West African country Guinea-Bissau when it granted him political asylum in the 1980s and was accepted by Portugal. The U.S. is trying to extradite Wright to serve the remainder of his 15- to 30-year sentence for a 1962...