2-26-2019 A Saudi Arabian man accused of murder in the US is unlikely to face justice because he has fled the country, a US State Department official has said.
Abdulrahman Sameer Noorah is believed to have fled the US state of Oregon with the help of Saudi officials and returned to his home country.
In a condolence letter to Oregon Senator Ron Wyden, a senior US diplomat wrote that extradition was unlikely.
The letter does not mention what effort the US will go to to seek extradition.
"The United States and Saudi Arabia do not have a bilateral extradition treaty, and Saudi Arabia does not extradite its nationals to the United States," wrote Mary Elizabeth Taylor, the State Department's assistant secretary of legislative affairs, in a letter provided by Senator Wyden's office to BBC News.
"Therefore, the law enforcement options available are limited."
The letter included condolences to the family of 15-year-old Fallon Smart - who Mr Noorah is accused of killing in a hit-and-run crash in 2016 - and said the State Department "fully understands their desire to see Mr. Noorah prosecuted". https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47377888
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Why is a single Saudi Arabian national allowed into the USA? Why is even a single US-Saudi deal allowed to continue under this situation?? Why aren’t Sens. Wyden and Merkley (D-OR) filibustering the US Senate??? 4-28-20 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8265435/City-Portland-pay-400-000-compensation-family-teen-girl-killed-2016-hit-run.html
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(Another) Saudi fled the country and escaped American justice. Since then, the Oregonian has identified numerous similar cases--in fact almost two dozen such cases across the United States. That includes 19 in just the last 7 years….
I felt then, and I do today, this raises an important and a serious
question: How does a foreign national charged with manslaughter, whose passport was seized, disappear from the United States without a trace? How does this person escape the country and make it thousands of miles back to Saudi Arabia with there being no record of his doing so? -Sen. Wyden to US Senate, 10-17-19, which passed Saudi Fugitive
Declassification Act of 2019 https://fas.org/irp/congress/2019_cr/saudi-declass.html
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