ATF Welcomes Extradition of Alaska Pipeline Attempted Bomber

Supreme Court of Canada's Dismissal Clears Way After Almost 7 Years ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) welcomed a decision on April 14, 2006 by Canada's highest court to clear the way for the extradition of Alfred H. Reumayr, a Canadian indicted in the United States for attempting to blow up the Trans-Alaska Pipeline. The Supreme Court of Canada dismissed without comment, April 13, 2006, an appeal by Reumayr, 56, to avoid an extradition order signed by Canada's justice minister in November 2004. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrested Ruemayr in Richmond, Canada, Aug. 14, 1999, and ATF later served him with an international warrant. A federal grand jury in Albuquerque indicted him Nov. 19, 1999, on international terrorism charges, attempting to destroy the Trans-Alaska Pipeline with explosives, possession of firearms in furtherance of a crime and attempting to damage the property of an energy facility. The indictment was returned in Albuquerque because Reumayr attempted to purchase explosive materials from a New Mexico man. "This marks a great day for law enforcement and the legal process in the United States and Canada," ATF Phoenix Special Agent in Charge Lester Martz said. "ATF and the Department of Justice were relentless in trying to bring Reumayr to justice, and he had the opportunity to exhaust his appeals through the British Columbia provincial courts and eventually the Supreme Court of Canada." The U.S. Marshals Service now will arrange to transport Reumayr to Albuquerque, where he will face a detention hearing before a U.S. magistrate.