Precedence of the extradition requests is a matter for the Home Secretary, if I'm not mistaken, and there are various guidelines to determine which request shou

Precedence of the extradition requests is a matter for the Home Secretary, if I'm not mistaken, and there are various guidelines to determine which request should be given precedence. Given the previous EAW was withdrawn due to the impossibility of serving it, it is relatively likely any new EAW will be considered practically identical to the original one and therefore the date of the original warrant used to grant precedence. There's also the matter of statute of limitations: the Swedish offences (one? two? I forget how many of the original four have passed the limit) need to go to court in the relatively near future, whereas the US offences have no limit as I understand it; this furthers the argument that the Swedish request should be given precedence. As for whether he gets to Sweden before the US, remember that he can then challenge the extradition to the US in both Swedish and English courts, and Sweden considers espionage a political crime for which it won't extradite. (Okay, very hypothetically extraordinary rendition has happened from Sweden with some level of Swedish consent before, but for such a thing to be done to such a high profile person would be… truly extraordinary.)