``I will fight against this extradition with every ounce of my strength,'' he said in an interview published in The Sunday Telegraph. ``I am prepared for a long battle even if it takes two years.

``This process is a sham that makes mockery of the British justice system,'' he said.

Augusto Pinochet, 83, was formally re-arrested on Friday as lawyers for the former Chilean dictator jockeyed with prosecutors for the legal high-ground over his threatened extradition to Spain.

Six months to the day after his arrest at a London clinic, Britain's crown prosecution service (CPS) said it may add to the torture charges facing the general following fresh information filed by Spain.

Pinochet's lawyers are debating whether to challenge British Home Secretary Jack Straw's ruling on Thursday allowing extraditionproceedings to go ahead.

At a hearing at the high court here on Friday, Straw's first decision in December in favour of extradition was formally quashed and replaced by the new order.

Pinochet told The Sunday Telegraph: ``I am innocent of the charges that I have been accused of, and in my capacity as a soldier of Chile and former president, I will fight to defend my honour and integrity and that of my country. I will do everything in my control to fight my extradition.''