Assange has requested political asylum & is in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London

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187. It would be much easier to extradite him directly from the UK: under current EU agreements, if

the UK extradites him to Sweden, Sweden can't extradite him to the US without UK permission

So if the US wants Assange, it would be much easier for the US to request extradition direction from the UK, as Assange would have appeal only to UK courts in that case. Extraditing Assange to the US, by first extraditing him from the UK to Sweden, and then from Sweden to the US, makes the process at least four times as complicated: first, Assange gets to fight extradition, from the UK to Sweden, in UK courts; and afterwards Assange gets to fight extradition, from Sweden to the US, not only in both UK and Swedish courts, but also in EU courts as well

There's also the itsy-bitsy point that the US has not requested extradition of Assange

Bottom line: Assange is a twit