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True enough, but in the eyes of many USians, a US warrant has worldwide jurisdiction and is as good as "international", even for the Times of London, obviously.

Interesting tidbit: the warrant upon which Polanski was arrested was issued by the FBI in 2005. Polanski reportedly owns a house in Gstaad and must have been to Switzerland a number of times since 2005.

So why now?  [Coincidence, surely]

Europeans think a hundred miles is a long way. Americans think a hundred years is a long time.

by Bernard on Thu Oct 1st, 2009 at 07:09:17 AM EST
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It seems they've screwed up or he's been tipped off before.

This time they ensured he was actually in the air before they issued the warrant.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Thu Oct 1st, 2009 at 09:28:50 AM EST
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