Daniel Andreas San Diego faces extradition after 21 years on run

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A suspected double bomber on the FBI's most needed listing who vanished for 21 years is due in court docket this week to resolve if he will likely be despatched again to the US to face trial.

The FBI imagine Daniel Andreas San Diego has hyperlinks to animal rights extremist teams and is their prime suspect for a sequence of bombings within the San Francisco Bay Space in 2003.

Former FBI brokers have mentioned there have been "missed alternatives" to arrest the 47-year-old earlier than he vanished and declare they discovered a suspected "bomb-making manufacturing unit" in his deserted automobile after what detectives known as a 65-mile (104km) rush-hour chase in California.

Mr San Diego was discovered 5,000 miles (8,000km) away in a cottage in north Wales final 12 months.

Mr San Diego, who had a $250,000 (£199,000) bounty on his head, faces a five-day extradition listening to at Westminster Magistrates Court docket in London on Monday to seek out out if the UK will hand him over to the US to reply a federal arrest warrant.

The previous fugitive, the primary born-and-raised American on the FBI's most needed terrorist listing, has been indicted by US prosecutors for maliciously damaging and destroying via an explosive after two separate assaults in 2003.

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Animal rights extremist group Revolutionary Cells - Animal Liberation Brigade claimed accountability for the assaults on corporations they believed had hyperlinks with organisations that examined merchandise on animals.

Former FBI Particular Agent David Smith was a part of a particular operations group that had been watching Mr San Diego.

"He was exceptional by being unremarkable," Mr Smith, one of many bureau's high surveillance specialists, informed the BBC.

"He was comparatively younger and regular, there was nothing to counsel this man was beginning to look violent. We by no means acquired any indication he was conscious of us."

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The FBI felt it had sufficient intelligence to counsel Mr San Diego was its prime suspect and thought it was him that planted the units that detonated a month aside.

However supervisory particular agent Andrew Black, a part of the FBI's counter-terrorism media workforce, recalled: "The US Lawyer's Workplace and case brokers have been making a choice whether or not to arrest him now or develop extra info.

"The hope was he'd lead us to different members of this animal rights group that have been utilizing violence to advertise their agenda."

Two bombs exploded at a biotechnology company in Emeryville, close to Oakland, USA, on 28 August 2003, with investigators believing the second bomb was planted to focus on first responders.

Then a bomb strapped with nails exploded at a dietary merchandise firm in Pleasanton, 30 miles (48km) east of the primary blast, on 26 September 2003. No-one was injured in both bombing.

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The FBI's former surveillance specialists have been informed Mr San Diego was developed as a agency suspect and have been requested to observe him with an "arrest being imminent".

"We have been taking a look at somebody who we predict has completed a number of bombings and a home terrorist," recalled Mr Smith.

Mr Smith and his former colleague Clyde Foreman, a former supervisory particular agent, recall urging their colleagues to make the arrest as soon as he had been recognized as the primary suspect.

Mr Black, an agent of 27 years, added: "Nearly as good as you may be, the longer you preserve surveillance ultimately they'll discover one thing uncommon and get spooked.

"There was frustration they weren't given the inexperienced mild to arrest him as they mentioned there's potential if he leaves, he is going to have the ability to detonate extra bombs."

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The day earlier than Mr San Diego went off the FBI's radar, Mr Smith was hiding in camouflage exterior his house.

Hours after Mr Smith and the FBI's surveillance specialists went off shift, he mentioned Mr San Diego made a run for it with detectives in pursuit.

"Virtually from the time he got here out of his home, he was appearing frantically," recalled Mr Smith.

"His driving patterns modified. The place he was going, he was driving erratically which is typical of somebody attempting to evade surveillance."

Brokers mentioned he drove south from his house in Sebastopol, Sonoma County, weaved previous commuters, by tunnels and over toll bridges in an hour-long motorway chase that led to downtown San Francisco.

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Not even the FBI's spy planes might preserve eyes on their goal as San Francisco's notorious fog blocked their view as Mr San Diego slipped the web.

Mr San Diego left his automobile with the engine nonetheless operating, at a busy metropolis centre junction subsequent to a subway station, and wasn't seen once more.

"The workforce that adopted him have been pondering he parked the automobile and went just a few blocks up the road to a location close by, both recognized to the animal rights group or he had a reference to," recalled Mr Smith, an FBI agent of 33 years.

"I requested 'did anybody see him go in or is anybody watching that place proper now?' They did not.

"The automobile was parked in a bus zone subsequent to the subway and we mentioned 'we predict he is gone'."

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Mr Foreman felt the identical.

"We knew he was within the wind and it will be actually troublesome to seek out him," he recalled.

"The case squad was working below the idea that San Diego was utilizing a residence for his bomb making.

"When he deserted his automobile, we came upon his bomb-making lab was within the trunk of his automobile."

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Mr Smith watched because the boot opened and admitted for a detective, it was "all the things you ever needed".

"Had we recognized that, he'd have definitely been arrested days prior," he added.

"It was validating to say there it was. We felt assured that this was the man straight away. We have been very skilled brokers and knew a suspect once we noticed one.

"It was undoubtedly a missed alternative."

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The double bombing got here two years after the 9/11 assaults and the US was on excessive alert, so division chief Mr Foreman was of the view: "After getting any individual recognized, arrest him."

Mr San Diego was a pc community specialist born in Berkeley, California, and introduced up in an higher middle-class space of the San Francisco Bay Space. His father was a metropolis supervisor.

Former Scotland Yard undercover detective and Hunted TV present skilled Peter Bleksley feels that fugitive Daniel Andreas San Diego should have had assist to get to the UK

The FBI labored on monitoring Mr San Diego for years after his disappearance, watching household and associates to see if they might lead brokers to him. However the scent went chilly. They believed he had in all probability fled to central or South America.

Mr San Diego was indicted within the US District Court docket in 2004 and the FBI thought-about him armed and harmful.

Then, after 21 years of nothing and each Mr Smith and Mr Foreman retiring from the bureau, they heard certainly one of their most infamous fugitives had been detained within the UK after being present in an remoted cottage on a north Wales hillside.

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The UK's Nationwide Crime Company (NCA) and counter-terror police swooped in November 2024, arresting Mr San Diego who had been utilizing the alias Danny Webb within the Conwy valley, close to the market city of Llanrwst.

"I imagine he had some assist - you are not chasing Jason Bourne," mentioned Mr Foreman.

"He was not a talented intelligence officer. He needed to have assist."

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The FBI mentioned it could not remark in regards to the attainable missed alternatives to arrest Mr San Diego.

However on the time of his arrest, FBI Director Christopher Wray mentioned: "Daniel San Diego's arrest after greater than 20 years as a fugitive for 2 bombings within the San Francisco space reveals that regardless of how lengthy it takes, the FBI will discover you and maintain you accountable."