Please. Do we need any more anti-US rhetoric here?
I see no reason to believe that he would have been treated differently by the FBI, and besides, he would probably have been extradited right back to Germany.
You don't appear to be aware of what's going on in the US right now. I would also suggest reading what pg has to say about identity (and keeping it small).
"..There is a step beyond thinking of yourself as x but tolerating y: not even to consider yourself an x. The more labels you have for yourself, the dumber they make you."