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A bombing suspect who was on the FBI's most wanted list for 21 years will appear in court this week to decide whether to be sent back to the United States to face trial.
The FBI believes Daniel Andreas of San Diego has ties to extremist animal rights groups and is the prime suspect in a series of bombings in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2003.
Former FBI agents have said there were "missed opportunities" to arrest the 47-year-old before he disappeared and claim they found a "suspected bomb-making factory" in his abandoned car after what detectives called a 65-mile (104 km) chase during rush hour in California.
Andreas was found 8,000km away, in a cottage in north Wales last year. The FBI had put a $250,000 reward on his head. He now faces a five-day extradition hearing at Westminster Magistrates' Court in London on Monday to learn whether the UK will hand him over to the United States to answer a federal arrest warrant.
The former fugitive, the first American born and raised on the FBI's most wanted terrorist list, has been charged by US prosecutors with malicious damage and destruction by means of an explosive after two separate attacks in 2003.
The extremist animal rights group, Revolutionary Cells - Animal Liberation Brigade, claimed responsibility for attacks on firms it believed had ties to organizations that tested products on animals.
Former FBI special agent David Smith was part of a special operations group that had been monitoring Andreas.
"He was relatively young and normal, there was nothing to suggest that this boy was starting to look violent. We never got any indication that he was aware of us."
Two bombs exploded at a biotechnology corporation in Emeryville, near Oakland, USA, on August 28, 2003, and investigators believed the second bomb was placed to target first aid teams.
Then, a nail-tipped bomb exploded at a grocery store in Pleasanton, 30 miles east of the first explosion, on September 26, 2003. No one was injured in either bomb blast.
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