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Slightly off-topic. I often read about how non-americans are extradited to US for legal reasons. How often does US citizens get extradited to non-US countries? I honestly never read of any such incident.

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It's reasonably common for U.S. citizens to be extradited for crimes they're alleged to have committed while on a trip to another country [1]. I would be interested to know if any have been extradited for "virtual" offenses, however, i.e. to a country they have not visited, but which argues they violated that country's laws via the internet, or some other indirect mechanism.

[1] e.g. http://praguemonitor.com/2013/05/28/dahlgrens-extradition-%C...

The guy in the article has US citizenship though

And Irish citizenship, which means that for nearly all purposes, his US citizenship will be irrelevant to how he is treated under Irish law. Dual citizenship complications are more an issue in third countries. If you are a citizen of the country you happen to be in, that usually trumps everything else.

Unless Ireland values its US relationship more than its citizens.

It's up to the judiciary and not the government. And if he doesn't like the courts' decisions (presuming he goes to the supreme court) he can then take his case to Europe, afaik.

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