Extradition of Terrorists to U.S.

The BBC reported that after fourteen years, five suspected terrorists including Abu Hamza al-Masri, will finally be extradited to the United States.  uk-19852506. The five are accused of plotting the bombing of a U.S. embassy in East Africa in 1998.  Why did it take so long to get the courts to return him to U.S. jurisdiction?  What …