A U.S. good terrorist: Vietnam fails to extradite suspect in failed bombings

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Vietnam fails to extradite suspect in failed bombings

The leader of a Vietnamese exile group returned to his home in California after being detained in South Korea for three months as the Vietnamese government made an unsuccessful attempt to extradite him.

Chanh Huu Nguyen, 57, received a hero’s welcome Wednesday at Los Angeles International Airport from dozens of Vietnamese-American supporters.

Nguyen, a permanent U.S. resident, was wanted by the Vietnamese government for alleged involvement in failed attempts to bomb its embassies in the Philippines and Thailand and state facilities in Vietnam.

He was arrested in Seoul at Vietnam’s request in April. At the time, Nguyen was on a 10-day fundraising trip for the non-profit U.S. International Mission, said Dennis Catron, the group’s president.

A spokesman for the Vietnam Embassy in Washington said the country would continue to seek his extradition.

ROSEVILLE

`Bonnet’ on smokestack cuts pollution from locomotives

A device being tested in Placer County would give anti-smog advocates a new weapon in the fight against air pollution from locomotives.

The Advanced Locomotive Emission Control System is a sort of mechanical “bonnet” that descends on the smokestack of an idling locomotive and scrubs the diesel exhaust clean of all but 1 percent of the hazardous sulfur dioxide and soot.

The device was tested this week in Roseville, a Sacramento suburb. A 2004 study by the state Air Resources Board showed the Roseville train yard was the single largest generator of diesel exhaust in the Sacramento region.

Union Pacific must now decide whether to permanently install the bonnet for trains idling at the Roseville yard.