Ex-Marine held in Australia ‘singled out’ in ‘political’ US extradition bid, lawyer says

A former military pilot has criticised an extradition bid by the United States as arbitrary and political, saying he was unfairly singled out. Daniel Edmund Duggan, 54, a naturalised Australian, has been accused by the US government of providing military training to pilots working for China. Outside Sydney’s Downing Centre local court on Tuesday, his lawyer slammed the extradition bid as an arbitrary prosecution brought about at a time when the US administration had entered into a geopolitical contest with China. “He’s clearly, in our view, been singled out in…