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    #11
    Originally posted by snaw
    but wtf has this to do with terrorism, and why can't we do the same back?

    It doesnt, but to quote another article on the BBC

    "The US justice system has a long and aggressive extra-territorial reach, and will increasingly apply for the extradition of UK citizens for allegedly criminal conduct committed against UK institutions."

    "There appear to be no legal protections against this at all."

    and we cant do the same because :

    The judgement marks the first test case in the UK under the government's Extradition Act 2003 - which was developed in the wake of the 11 September attacks in 2001.

    "..the treaty has created an "unequal" balance between the US and UK, as the US is not required to provide "primae facie" evidence of wrongdoing to extradite a UK citizen.

    However, British requests to the US must still provide evidence of "probable cause".
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      #12
      Originally posted by sasguru
      Where have you been all this time? We are America's poodle and will jump through hoops if asked.
      That's what concerns me most about this, it's so one sided and quite clearly unfair. Maybe if this right was recipracle I could be persuaded to see the relevence to extraditing non terrorists. And these guys didn't even commit a crime against a US bank (Quite clearly they appear to have defrauded Natwest though).
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