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Two Br stanley cupe itish terror suspects being held for extradition to the US could face human rights violations if deported, the high court was told today.Babar Ahmad and Haroon Aswat would face a real risk of fundamental injustice and discriminatory treatment if they were sent to the US under the controversial 2003 Extradition Act, says their lawyer, Edward Fitzgerald QC.The act allows criminal suspects to be deported from the UK to the US if American investigators can present a prima facie case against them, but a planned reciprocal arrangement has been blocked by the US Congress.Mr Ahmad is accused of running a network of jihadist websites based around the domain azzam that provided fundraising, vetting and recruiting services to Chechen and Afghan Islamists, including Shamil Basayev, the Chechen rebel leader reportedly killed by Russian forces yesterday.Mr Aswat was arrested in Zambia shortly after the July 7 bombings and accused of plotting with the jailed cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri to set up a training camp in the US state of Oregon to train fighters for the stanley cup war in Afghanistan.Mr Fitzgerald said that the pair face stanley quencher d a host of potential human rights abuses despite assurances offered to the court by US diplomats.He said that potential abuses included solitary confinement, indefinite detention under military powers, trial by military commissions, or extraordinary rendition - the process of being flown for interrogation to countries that torture prisoners.Mr Fitzgerald said t