Daniel Andreas San Diego faces extradition after 21 years on run

In the most sought -after list of FBI for 21 years, a suspicious pair of bombardment planes will decide whether this week will be sent back to the United States for trial.

The FBI believes that Daniel Andreas San Diego is connected with animal rights pro -excessive groups, and in 2003 he is the best doubtful for a series of bombings in the Gulf Region of San Francisco.

The former FBI agents claimed that there were “abducted opportunities” to arrest the 47 -year -old child and that they found a suspicious “bomb factory” in his abandoned car after what detectives called a 65 miles (104km) in California.

Mr. San Diego was found 5,000 miles (8,000 km) A cottage in North Wales last year.

Mr. San Diego, who has $ 250,000 (£ 199,000) in his head Five -day return hearing At the Westminster Magistrate Criminal Court in London on Monday to find out if the UK will deliver it to the United States to answer a federal arrest order.

The former illegal, the first American born and raised in the most sought -after terrorist list of the FBI, was accused by US prosecutors for malicious harm and destroying them through a explosives after two separate attacks in 2003.

Animal Rights Excessive Group Revolutionary Cells – Animal Liberation Brigade claimed responsibility for attacks on companies they believe to have connections with organizations that tested products on animals.

Former FBI private agent David Smith was part of a special operation group following Mr. San Diego.

Mr. Smith, one of the best surveillance experts of the office, told the BBC in his statement, “He drew attention to being careless.” He said.

“He was relatively young and normal, there was nothing to claim that this man began to look violent. We never showed that we were aware of us.”

The FBI felt that Mr. San Diego had enough intelligence to claim that he was the main suspect, and he thought he was a thorn of devices that exploded a month.

However, the controller special agent Andrew Black, a part of the FBI’s anti -terror media team, remembered: “The US lawyer and case agents decided to arrest or develop more information.

“Hope would take us to other members of this animal rights group, which used violence to encourage their agenda.”

On August 28, 2003, two bombs exploded at a Biotechnology Company in Emeryville near Oakland, USA, and the inspectors believed that the second bomb was erected to target the first interventionists.

Later, on September 26, 2003, a bomb exploded with nails at a nutritional products company in Pleasanton, 30 miles (48km) of the first explosion. Both bombs were not injured.

FBI’s former surveillance experts were asked to watch Mr. San Diego developed as a solid suspect and “with arrest to be close”.

“We were looking at someone we thought he was doing more than one bombing and domestic terrorists.”

Mr. Smith and his former colleague Clyde Foreman invite his colleagues to arrest after being identified as the main suspect, a former supervisory special agent.

Mr. Black, a 27 -year agent, added: “As good as possible, the longer you continue, the sooner they will notice and scare something unusual.

He continued: “If they left, they said that they were potential, there was no disappointment that they were not given green light to arrest him, and he could detonate additional bombs.”

The day before Mr. San Diego came out of the radar of FBI, Mr. Smith was hiding at the camouflage outside his house.

He said Mr. Smith and FBI’s surveillance experts ran with the detectives after Mr. San Diego.

“He almost moved crazy from the moment he got out of his house, Sm Smith remembered.

“Driving patterns have changed. He was continuing irregularly, where he went to someone who tried to escape.”

Agents, San Francisco in the city center of an hour -long highway chase through tunnels and Toll Bridges, Sonoma district Sebastopol’deki house, he said.

San Francisco’s famous Sisi could not keep FBI’s spy planes in their eyes, as Mr. San Diego prevented his views while scrolling the nets.

Mr. San Diego left his car while he was still working at a busy city center junction next to a subway station and was not seen again.

“The following team thought that the team was parked and a few blocks on the street, either known or connected to the animal rights group,” Mr. Smith, a 33 -year FBI agent, said.

“I asked, ‘Did anyone see that he was in, or is anyone watching the place right now?’ They didn’t.

“It was parked in a bus area next to the car subway and said, ‘We think you are gone’.”

Mr. Foreman felt the same thing.

“We knew it was in the wind, and it would be really hard to find it,” he remembered.

“The case team was operating under the assumption that San Diego used a housing for bomb construction.

“When he left his car, we learned that the bomb -making laboratory was in the trunk of his car.”

Mr. Smith watched when the boat was opened and confessed for a detective, “it was everything you’ve ever wanted”.

“If we knew that, he would definitely be arrested days ago,” he added.

He continued: “It was confirmed to say that it was there. We were sure that it was a man. We were very experienced agents and when we saw one, we knew a suspect.

“It was definitely a kidnapped opportunity.”

Double bombing came after two years 9/11 attacks And the United States passed a high alarm, so the department chief Mr. Foreman talked: “After someone describing him, arrest him.”

Mr. San Diego, Berkeley, was a computer network expert in California and was grown in the upper middle -class region of the San Francisco Gulf Region. His father was a city manager.

Years after his disappearance, FBI tried to watch Mr. San Diego, watched to see whether they could take your family and friends to him. But the smell got cold. They probably believed that he had escaped to Middle or South America.

In 2004, San Diego was accused of the US Regional Court and the FBI saw him as armed and dangerous.

Later, after anything 21 years and retired from the Bureau, Mr. Smith and Mr. Foreman, who were in an isolated hut on the northern Wales slope, heard that one of the most famous fugitive leaks in England were detained.

The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) and the Anti -Terrorist Police arrested Mr. San Diego, who used the Danny WebB pseudonym in the Conwy Valley near the Llanrwst Sunday town, in November 2024.

Orum I believe you have a little support – you can’t chase Jason Bourne, “Mr. Foreman said.

“He was not a talented intelligence officer. He had to support.”

FBI, Mr. San Diego, said he would not comment on possible missed opportunities to arrest.

However, at the time of arrest, FBI Director Christopher Wray said: “Daniel San Diego’s arrest for two bombing in the San Francisco region after more than 20 years, it is not important how long it lasts, and shows you that FBI will find you responsible.”

San Diego, who was kept in the high security Belmarsh prison in London, refused to comment.