The world is going in a direction where some country operaiting like a world police. Can US just in any place ogf the world kidnapp any citicent of any country, bring them to US and put them to prison??? Is this legal afhter internasjonal law??? Can they do this without trial or they dont care about it. If US have the legal right to do so, then I will recomend all adder country to do the same and arrest and kidnapp any citicent of US ho have comitted warcrime.( Most of US soilder have done it) If not Ho will stop US????

If the US officials have failed to observe due process, then a good US lawyer should be able to help Yaroshenko win his freedom (and possibly, compensation). In that respect, they may have done him a favour by moving him to the USA - I suspect that a trial in Liberia might be a more scary prospect.

i agree what riga say...If US have the legal right to do so, then I will recomend all adder country to do the same and arrest and kidnapp any citicent of US ho have comitted warcrime.( Most of US soilder have done it) If not Ho will stop US????

The persons making the arrest and arranging the deportation of the Russian citizen are part of the Special Forces recently dispatched by the incomparable President Obama to 75 countries to look after American interests. As this is undercover work, legal norms are forgotten. Mr Yarushenko is lucky to be still alive. A specialist group of the Special Forces specializes in immediate executions of detainees - including American citizens. The long-established American Rule of Law declines into a form of oligarchic terror. Military and intelligence operatives start to rule the world. What happens in the parts of Africa under US control today may happen in your home town over the next decade.

I guess, Americans, were not satisfied with the spy story and how it was ended -- the Russian "spies" became world-class celebrities and nothing else. Probably, it didn't work the way Americans wanted, because, they didn't have any benefits out of it. Being persistent by nature, they decided to make the next move with the hope to "complete the job"... So, I guess, the time has come, to start exchanging regular prisoners... By the way, I suggest to the Russian government to repeat the same trick which they did with the spies -- to take from Americans the regular guys whom they just accusing and give them in return really hardcore killers from the Russian prisons.

This is shameful but unfortunately common. Yes, US agents can kidnap anybody anywhere and imprison them. It all depends on how much of an international stink is raised by the prisoner's home country. At least he was taken to Manhattan instead of some black hole in Cuba or Dubai. It sounds like he might actually be given a trial and allowed a lawyer.

With these things and many others ¿Do you really believe in american and western friendship ?. For America, Russia only represents a military enemy and a possible source of natural resources. There is no more.

This is not new behavior from the USA. They have been kidnapping, torturing, and killing people in the name of their own national security for many decades before "War on Terror" scam. I suggest everyone to watch the works of a real journalist, John Pilger. A lot of this type behavior has been documented by him backed with facts. This pilot is unfortunate victim of America's egotistical power trip over the world. I am sure Yeltsin Jr. (Medvedev) will make another bow to the West in its persistent humiliations they offer Russia.

Since when USA had respected the International Laws? All our treaties' approvals by Congress, had one or more "Loophole" added into the texts Just study, how Bush2 Justice Department turned the Geneva and Nuremberg's International Treaties around, to justify :Torture, Kidnapping, Military aggressions, masive round up of US moslems man and children,etc... Just remember,in 1796/7, USA was involved in and agression war against France, on the side of UK, this despite a treaty of friendship and mutual aid between France & USA

What if Russia seizes an American national and flies him to Moscow, what would be the American reaction? What makes the USA better then everyone else? Going by their own rules they make as they go along. Maybe if they had not turned Liberia into what it is today with their stooges like Charles Taylor who mysteriously disappeared from prison in the USA and reappear as a murderous rebel leader in Liberia for which he is standing trial in the Hague today. Or the appearance of their next stooge Prince Johnson when they lost control of Taylor.They did not even hide it. Johnson walked out as a fighting rebel right out of the USA embassy. All the while the West African peace keeping force (Ecomog) troops were dying trying to bring order to that country. YES Liberian civil war and its aftermath is the result of American action.That's why they can just walk arround kidnapping who they like on foreign soil with the locals been sidelined.

Maybe he knows to much,And probably the information is detrementle to the Politicans in America.After all American history is littered with Politicans Judges etc on they pay books.IN good old Chicago town.PS Probably why THe Kennedys most were assinnated.

Juan Carlos > For America, Russia only represents a military enemy and a possible source of natural resources. There is no more. There is only one reason for all the invasions, bombings and international scandals that US is promoting. It's the MONEY. United States of America is the only country in the world where same people who make military decisions also produce military hardware. Search for Northrop corp. in wikipedia and see who is in charge there. Strangely the guy's last name is Bush. That's right ladies and gentleman the Bush family. It explains why American taxpayers are paying $ 2 bil. for "invisible" planes, and why USA is has the biggest military spending in the world by miles. Those people simply cannot allow Russia to be anything but bad guys. Otherwise US taxpayers may start to ask the questions like "why are we spending so much, if Russia is not aggressive towards us?" and "600 bil. to fight a bunch of mujaheddin with old AK47?". Let's take spy scandal for example. Just when Medvedev had some burgers with Obama and bought an iPad and Russia's rating in US started to go up, they came up with this story about spies, just grab some random people and exchanged them on convicted spies. This is done to make Americans fear Russia so they approve another 2 bil. aircraft.