Israeli who trained Colombia death squads wins appeal against extradition http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1160447.html

An Israeli mercenary convicted by Colombia for training paramilitary squads linked to drug trafficking in the 1980s won an appeal against extradition from Russia, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) said on Wednesday.

Gal Yair Klein, born in 1943, was tried in absentia in 2001 for training the "death squads" which were used by Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha and Pablo Escobar, leaders of the notorious Medellin drug cartel, to wage war against the Colombian state in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Yair Klein also spent 16 months in a Sierra Leone jail between 1999 and 2000, charged with smuggling arms for the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) guerrilla. A former commando from the Israeli army, Yair Klein was arrested in Russia in 2007 on the basis of an Interpol warrant and is still being detained in Moscow. He is resisting extradition, claiming he life would be in danger if he was sent to Colombia.