Quote Originally Posted by Gelatinous Cube
Quite frankly, I hope the first idiot who tries to arrest them gets a warning shot, and wisely decides to go back home to Spain.

Do you think somebody is going to come to the US to arrest them?

This whole thing has more symbolic character - it shows that the court in Spain is trying all it can to bring this case forward:

- the judge asked the Pentagpon for cooperation
- he offered to come to the US and question the tank crew there
- as nothing happened, the judge draws the last option - as the soldiers do not appear before court to be questioned, he orders an arrest to force them to do so (which seems like pretty normal procedure in any court case)

Nobody will arrest these guys in the US - should they set foot on Spain (something they obviously won't do) they could be arrested to force them to appear before court.

The judge did his job (unlike the Italian authorities in the cable car incident a couple of years ago) and the family of the journalist sees that their court system to not withdraw for political reasons.

The question here whether the soldiers were justified to fire at the hotel is excactly the discussion the judge in Spain is trying to answer - keep in mind that the tankls crew has not been convicted in Spain.