Italian officials are preparing extradition proceedings against Osman.
I have therefore withdrawn the extradition order against Mr McKinnon.
During extradition proceedings against Mr Schreiber in 1999, Airbus admitted to these payments.
The extradition case against Mr. O'Dwyer has turned him into something of a cause célèbre.
Only when a final conviction was reached could Italy start extradition procedures against her.
The US could begin extradition proceedings against him, a potentially problematic, lengthy and unpredictable course for Washington.
It will be used to take Gen Pinochet back to Chile if the extradition case against him is dropped.
But there are procedural safeguards against politically motivated, unjustified prosecutions, as illustrated by the British courts' scrupulous regard for due process during the extradition case against Gen. Augusto Pinochet.
The American ambassador in Bogotá, William Wood, has insisted that his government will not drop extradition requests against AUC "narco-terrorists".But the United States risks overplaying its hand on extradition.
There was no doubt, she said, that McKinnon was "seriously ill" and the extradition warrant against him should therefore be withdrawn.
