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A big misconception that the author and others have is that if two countries don't have an extradition treaty it means that you won't be extradited. It doesn't
by 323 5y ago
A big misconception that the author and others have is that if two countries don't have an extradition treaty it means that you won't be extradited.
It doesn't work like that. All it means it that instead of you being more or less automatically extradited now a negotiation process starts between the two countries. Put another way: extradition is manual instead of automatic.
Plenty of people were extradited from "no extradition treaty" to US.
> One very important takeaway from this article should be that just because a country does not have a formal extradition agreement with the United States, does not mean that the country will not extradite you.
https://www.expatriationattorneys.com/non-extradition-countries-expatriation/#Non-Treaty_Does_Not_Mean_No_Extradition https://www.expatriationattorneys.com/non-extradition-countr...
- RcouF1uZ4gsC 5y agoAnd also how much the US authorities want you. If the US really wants you, they have a very long reach (see Bin Laden in Pakistan).
- daniel-cussen 5y agoYeah, same as the British monarchy after the murder of Charles 2. Or James 2. But they tracked down the killers all the way to America, or so they say. Same with Stalin getting Trotsky in Mexico. But there's others who never were captured, Hannibal evaded Rome until they almost captured him, but he successfully killed himself so they never got him alive. There's many others on both sides.
- cbozeman 5y ago> Hannibal evaded Rome until they almost captured him, but he successfully killed himself so they never got him alive. I'm not sure if I'd put this one in the "W" column.
- giantrobot 5y agoSome say he escaped into the Los Angeles underground.
- otterley 5y agoLook for a black windowless van with a red stripe on it.
- jokethrowaway 5y agoI wonder if Hitler really killed himself or if managed to escape to Argentina.
- to1y 5y agoWhy Argentina in particular?
- scaramanga 5y agoThe ratlines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratlines_(World_War_II_aftermath) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratlines_(World_War_II_afterma...
- hardlianotion 5y agoThey didn't have to look far for the murderers of Charles 2 - very probably the treatment his doctors gave him for his ailments were the proximate cause of his death.
- stjohnswarts 5y agoVery few (maybe 1 or 2 at any given time out of billions) have the ultimate impetus to capture that bin laden had.