It's good to have confirmation Americans can be and have been extradited to the UK, rather than this being prohibited as you said earlier, though a link to articles would be rather less disruptive than pasting screenfuls of text mid-discussion....

"The Americans are abusing the reason why the Extradition order was put into use."

Nope. The extradition treaty was never about terrorism - we've had extradition arrangements in place with the US since the Extradition Act 1870, and the 2003 amendment was to fix the imbalance against the US. The notion that the Extradition Act 2003 was all about terrorism is little more than wishful thinking (if you give them the benefit of the doubt) on the McKinnon PR team's part; indeed, from a quick check of Hansard for that period, terrorism wasn't even mentioned in this context! Nor, for that matter, is it entirely about the US - it covers everything from the Isle of Man to New Zealand, through a variety of bilateral and multilateral treaties. How many of the dozens of extraditions, in both directions, have had the slightest connection to terrorism - and why do you think the update to a century-old arrangement was all about the very tiny minority of cases which might have one, rather than the vast majority of cases it actually covers, including McKinnon's?

There seem to be a lot of misconceptions floating around now: Ian's statement the US won't extradite US citizens was a new one on me, the notion extradition is somehow supposed to be about terrorism rather than the crimes it actually gets used for is much more widespread, as is the implication all he did was "look around" the Navy's computers rather than plastering them with abuse, deleting files - though he did admit to threatening to "continue to disrupt at the highest levels".

For me, extradition serves two purposes. One is in furtherance of the moral imperative to assist justice where possible - suspects should face trial wherever possible, rather than escaping thanks to a quirk of geography; the other is the opportunity to offload criminals to another government. I could never understand France's enthusiasm for sheltering a convicted paedophile rapist: wouldn't their country be a better place without people like that?