61.   The spokesman said any extradition request would require separate consideration.

62.   The Turkish ambassador here left in protest after an Italian appeals court ruled that without an extradition request from Germany, Italy had no grounds to detain Ocalan.

63.   The United States has not yet lodged an extradition request.

64.   Thus far, the issue is somewhat academic in that the United States has yet to make an extradition request.

65.   U.S. officials hope that winning the return of the two suspects in San Diego for trial in Mexico will encourage Mexican officials to honor more U.S. extradition requests.

66.   U.S. prosecutors working on behalf of the Mexican government had presented the case to Chesler after another judge rejected three earlier extradition requests.

67.   U.S. Magistrate Judge Ronald Hedges turned down two previous extradition requests on the obstruction of justice charges and one on the embezzlement charges.

68.   Two American judges have turned down four different extradition requests, either because evidence was gathered through torture or because of insufficient probable cause.

69.   Only the Muslims have so far fully complied with tribunal extradition requests, said international officials.

70.   Paez, called a top lieutenant in the Arellano Felix drug cartel, was arrested in Tijuana more than three years ago and held on a U.S. extradition request.