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Fischer will not be extradited from Iceland
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| banana 2005-03-24, 5:53 pm |
| According to:
<http://www.hri.org/docs/USSD-INCSR/...pe/Iceland.html>
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These treaties are at:
<http://www.internationalextradition.com/iceland_bi.htm>:
and
<http://www.internationalextradition.com/iceland_s1.htm>
Article I (from the first .com URL above) states that extradition can
only occur:
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So, since playing chess in Yugoslavia has never been against the law in
Iceland, Fischer cannot be extradited to the US for having done this.
Article V states that:
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In short, if the US government dared to submit a request for Fischer's
extradition, the Icelandic government would not be in breach of the
treaty if it told the US government to stick its request up its arse.
(Note: I have not yet found anything on the 1972 treaty mentioned at:
<http://www.uncjin.org/Laws/extradit/iceland.pdf> but I think it may be
a red herring since I don't understand how in 1972 a treaty between the
US and Denmark could bind Iceland which by 1972 was an 'independent' and
'sovereign' country).
However it is possible that US government gangsters might want to kidnap
Fischer in Iceland and bundle him to the US base at Keflavik, so I hope
he employs good security.
--
banana "The thing I hate about you, Rowntree, is the way you
give Coca-Cola to your scum, and your best teddy-bear to
Oxfam, and expect us to lick your frigid fingers for the
rest of your frigid life." (Mick Travis, 'If...', 1968)
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| banana 2005-03-24, 9:53 pm |
| In article <fIlf6fANizQCFwAu@borve.demon.co.uk>, banana <banana@REMOVE_T
HIS.borve.demon.co.uk> writes
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You have to laugh at how the 'New York Times' sneers at Iceland as
'Kentucky-sized' and 'windswept':
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/24/i...nd-fischer.html
Why don't they say what they mean, and call it a shitty little rock in
the North Atlantic that doesn't even have its own army?
They don't seem to be able to bring themselves to report the *truth*,
namely that the Icelandic government has had the courage to support a
man in his 60s whom the US criminal regime is persecuting and seeking to
jail for up to 10 years for the 'crime' of playing chess thousands of
miles away from US territory.
--
banana "The thing I hate about you, Rowntree, is the way you
give Coca-Cola to your scum, and your best teddy-bear to
Oxfam, and expect us to lick your frigid fingers for the
rest of your frigid life." (Mick Travis, 'If...', 1968)
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| Morphy's ghost 2005-03-24, 9:53 pm |
| In the year of our Lord Thu, 24 Mar 2005 22:00:45 +0000, banana
<banana@REMOVE_THIS.borve.demon.co.uk> wrote:
I doubt that Iceland would have offered citizenship to Fischer if they
intended to later honor an extradition request.
The next question is whether Washington will even bother tendering an
extradition request or not.
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>However it is possible that US government gangsters might want to kidnap
>Fischer in Iceland and bundle him to the US base at Keflavik, so I hope
>he employs good security.
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This is extremely unlikely.
What is now proved was once, only imagin'd. -- William Blake
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| David Kane 2005-03-24, 9:53 pm |
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"banana" <banana@REMOVE_THIS.borve.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:fIlf6fANizQCFwAu@borve.demon.co.uk...
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> So, since playing chess in Yugoslavia has never been against the law in
> Iceland, Fischer cannot be extradited to the US for having done this.
The US has never charged Fischer for playing in chess in Yugoslavia. He
was charged for entering into a contract in Yugoslavia. Presumably, that
*was* also illegal in Iceland, unless Iceland was in defiance of UN
resolutions.
However, the other aspects of the treaty do protect him (e.g. violation of
sanctions it is not listed as an extraditable crime, he is now a citizen
etc.)
So it looks likes we can thank Japan for providing what little bit of
justice there was to be had in this case.
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| crotalus_no1@yahoo.com 2005-03-25, 3:52 am |
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Didn't Fischer renounce his citizenship in Japan before the US
Ambassador. If so he is no longer a citizen.
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| banana 2005-03-25, 6:51 am |
| In article <42433fb1.99244038@newsgroups.bellsouth.net>, Morphy's ghost
<stewieisaheretic@religiousheresy.org> writes
quote:
>In the year of our Lord Thu, 24 Mar 2005 22:00:45 +0000, banana
><banana@REMOVE_THIS.borve.demon.co.uk> wrote:
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>I doubt that Iceland would have offered citizenship to Fischer if they
>intended to later honor an extradition request.
'Honor'/'honour' is not the right word.
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>The next question is whether Washington will even bother tendering an
>extradition request or not.
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>This is extremely unlikely.
I guess you haven't got out much in recent decades.
--
banana "The thing I hate about you, Rowntree, is the way you
give Coca-Cola to your scum, and your best teddy-bear to
Oxfam, and expect us to lick your frigid fingers for the
rest of your frigid life." (Mick Travis, 'If...', 1968)
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| Morphy's ghost 2005-03-25, 5:51 pm |
| In the year of our Lord Fri, 25 Mar 2005 09:47:55 +0000, banana
<banana@REMOVE_THIS.borve.demon.co.uk> wrote:
quote:
>In article <42433fb1.99244038@newsgroups.bellsouth.net>, Morphy's ghost
><stewieisaheretic@religiousheresy.org> writes
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>'Honor'/'honour' is not the right word.
Perhaps you are not a native English speaker? One can indeed honor a
request.
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>I guess you haven't got out much in recent decades.
As I said before, it is extremely unlikely, despite what the radical
leftwing weblogs you've been reading tell you.
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>--
Bray a fool in a morter with wheat. yet
shall not his folly be beaten out of him. -- William Blake
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