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| - The Norwegian government on Friday approved the extradition to France of a suspect linked to a 1982 attack in Paris in which six people were killed, Norway's intelligence service PST said. The decision was taken during a council of ministers and cannot be appealed. The extradition is to be carried out within 10 days, a PST spokeswoman said. Walid Abdulrahman Abu Zayed, a 61-year-old Palestinian who became a Norwegian citizen in 1997, is wanted by French authorities on suspicion of being one of the shooters in the attack on the Jo Goldenberg restaurant in Paris's Marais district, a historically Jewish quarter. The attack on August 9, 1982, which left six people dead and 22 injured, was blamed on the Abu Nidal Organisation, a splinter group of the militant Palestinian Fatah group. Abu Zayed, who has lived in Norway since 1991 where he goes by the name Osman, has maintained his innocence. He had appealed several court decisions in Norway ruling his extradition legal, to no avail. The final decision was left to the government. "Osman's appeal was examined in the council of ministers meeting before the king. It was rejected," PST spokeswoman Annett Aamodt said. "The justice ministry ordered the extradition to be carried out under an agreement between the Norwegian and French police and the decision is to be executed with 10 days," she added. France has requested Abu Zayed's extradition before, but Norway has had a policy of not extraditing its nationals. However, a recently implemented deal between the European Union, Norway and Iceland has paved the way for extradition. phy/po/har
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