-- On 12 Sep 2003 at 17:46, J.A. Terranson wrote:
The FBI has been learning to use international extradition over the last two years or so, and are actually getting to be quite good at it from what I hear.
This would greatly surprise me, for government bureaucracies are notoriously incompetent at dealing with anyone they cannot have pistol whipped. If police bureaucracy X has busted someone for their own reasons, they may well hand him over to police bureacracy Y, but police bureaucracy X is not going to bust someone because police bureacracy Y wants him. If Professor rat had killed a cop, or seriously pissed off an important politician, the FBI might get its act together enough and swallow its pride sufficiently to manage a successful extradition, but for this sort of minor crap, nothing will happen. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG XmSLOgHTIX7igiupnUZhy6VfVZRNQh4hsbrOXBMG 4WS9OF42DQA+DowPFP7Z5UXhBISFqDUt0ssgL4sf3