1.   There were no national or international arrest warrants, no extradition requests.

2.   Critics point out the nit-picking thoroughness which legal authorities in the Republic so often bring to bear on extradition requests.

3.   A Foreign Ministry spokesman, Claeus Jernaeus, said Sweden had received no formal extradition request from the Russians.

4.   As for the extradition request Ms. Ayress and her group made to Ms. Reno, it took three months for a reply, from an assistant.

5.   Because of those errors, he said, Alabama has never had its extradition request fairly reviewed.

6.   A hearing on an extradition request by the Swiss was scheduled for Thursday afternoon in federal court in Brooklyn.

7.   A German court placed him under indefinite detention pending a resolution of the extradition request.

8.   A German court is expected to rule in the next few weeks whether it should accept the extradition request by Singapore.

9.   A secretary of state can put an extradition request at the bottom of the pile and have it take years.

10.   A separate U.S. judge in Newark denied three previous extradition requests.