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RadioRaheem84
18th November 2010, 20:10
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101118/ap_on_hi_te/eu_sweden_wikileaks

Apparently, Assange is now a suspect in a rape investigation and the Swedish authorities issued an international warrant for his arrest, meaning that it would limit his nation hopping.

What timing, eh?
Nuvem
18th November 2010, 20:13
Methinks I smell foul play in the courts.
RadioRaheem84
18th November 2010, 20:19
Of course. Trumped up charges that probably won't even stick. If they do I would be very surprised.

Well, there you have it for all of the liberal Sweden lovers. The lovely little welfare state is in coo-hoots with the US regime to frame a whistle blower.

Any Swedes in here that can give us the skinny on the international websites?
Comrade Wolfie's Very Nearly Banned Adventures
18th November 2010, 20:45
Didn't this happen before but with Sexual Assault charges?
RadioRaheem84
18th November 2010, 20:46
Didn't this happen before but with Sexual Assault charges?

Really?
Red Commissar
18th November 2010, 21:35
No, it was rape charges too if it's the same case I'm thinking off, but they retracted it.

http://www.revleft.com/vb/julian-assange-accused-t140505/index.html

Then there were articles following that detailing an essentially back and forth by the Swedish authorities over whether or not they should pursue it.
~Spectre
18th November 2010, 22:01
Don't underestimate the threat to Assange here. Even if these charges can't stick, just getting him in a jail for a few hours might be the end of him. He can't be protected in there, and it would be the easiest thing in the world to have him killed and have the prison guards report it as a suicide by a rape suspect.
Red Commissar
20th November 2010, 06:44
It's also really of a large PR campaign by the DoD. The media, for example, has not really given much attention to the content of the leaks as they have about the "dangers" that Wikileaks have put the troops and informants in due to their recklessness or w/e. All around, play the national security card.

More over things like this, as well as other insights to Assange's life, lead to a character assassination. I don't really think the US would be wanting to have him killed, especially at this juncture, but more to make him irrelevant by tarnishing his character and breaking his contacts.