{Louisville, Kentucky}...Magistrate Judge Robert Wier ruled Friday that treaties are in place to allow 52 year old Azra Basic to be extradited to Bosnia-Herzegovina to face charges that she committed war crimes there in 1992. Prosecutors say 26 witnesses alleged acts of torture at three camps near the Serbian-majority settlement of Cardack in Derventa. Witnesses identified Basic as a soldier in the Croatian army and said she killed one prisoner and tortured others by forcing them to drink human blood and gasoline and having them kneel on broken glass. The U.S. State Department has the final decision about whether to extradite Basic. Basic's attorney, Patrick Nash of Lexington, says he may ask the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals to review the case and expects that authorities would delay returning Basic to Europe during that process. Basic, known as "Isabella," had been living for several years in eastern Kentucky, where she worked at a nursing home and a food factory before her arrest in March.
