Dutch Citizen Sentenced in the US For $300 Payment to Al-Shabaab

Re:Dutch Citizen Sentenced in the US For $300 Payment to Al-... by giobox on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @07:29PM (#32325646)

Many European countries have relatively one-sided extradition arrangements with the US (one sided in that the US usually has significantly more rights to demand a transfer of a foreign citizen to the US than vice-versa - such is the benefit of being the USA when dealing with small nations). The dutch do have a US extradition treaty, no idea the terms under which it operates.

UPDATE looks like they did use the extradition treaty to get her to the USA, 7 year process:

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/dutch-national-faces-charges-...

I also think its kinda wild to be tried and jailed by a foreign nation for a crime that didn't exist in the country you were in at the time you did it. It raises difficult questions of citizenship/sovereignty etc, even if we can likely almost all agree terrorism is a bad thing.

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Re:Dutch Citizen Sentenced in the US For $300 Payment to Al-... by badrabbit on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @08:16PM (#32326068)

The Dutch government failed to protect its citizen, that is for sure. The US is in its right to charge her but the laws of her country is what should have protected her. Did she happen to be a minority I wonder?

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Re:Dutch Citizen Sentenced in the US For $300 Payment to Al-... by badrabbit on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @06:00AM (#32329698)

I didn't open the link when I commented, my guess was right. It's like this anywhere I think an immigrant will always be seen immigrant first citizen last. In the US intel agencies spy on naturalized citizens same as foreigners, they act like a citizens rights don't apply to them.

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Re:Dutch Citizen Sentenced in the US For $300 Payment to Al-... by cheesierburger on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @07:42PM (#32325762)

Well this is clearly the better response.

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