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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 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-countr...



And 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).


Very few (maybe 1 or 2 at any given time out of billions) have the ultimate impetus to capture that bin laden had.


Yeah, 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.


> 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.


Some say he escaped into the Los Angeles underground.


Look for a black windowless van with a red stripe on it.


They 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.


I wonder if Hitler really killed himself or if managed to escape to Argentina.


Why Argentina in particular?





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