Report: Assange accuser flees to Middle East, may not be cooperating with police Jaw dropping excerpts in italics:
One of the two Swedish women who have filed sex complaints against the founder of WikiLeaks has reportedly left Sweden and may no longer be cooperating with the criminal investigation.
According to a report at Australian news site Crikey.com, Anna Ardin has moved to the Palestinian territories to volunteer with a Christian group working to reconcile Arabs and Israelis.
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Ardin's blog shows that she has recently posted from the Palestinian territories. Her most recent blog posts make no mention of WikiLeaks or its founder, Julian Assange.
Some of Ardin's most recent Tweets suggest sympathy for WikiLeaks.
"MasterCard, Visa and PayPal -- belt them now!" Ardin urged in a Tweet Wednesday, evidently referring to the cyber-attacks launched on those institutions after they severed their relationships with WikiLeaks.
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"CIA agent, rabid feminist / Muslim lover, a Christian fundamentalist, flat & fatally in love with a man, can you even be all [these things all] the time?" she Tweeted in Swedish.
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Assange's lawyer, renowned British advocate Mark Stephens, told CBS News Thursday that prosecutor Marianne Ny is staging a "show trial," in reference to the politically motivated prosecutions of the Stalin-era Soviet Union.
(Assange's lawyer)Stephens said not only have formal charges not been filed against Assange, but the prosecution has failed to provide him with any documentation relating to the investigation. As a result, he says it's impossible for him to begin crafting a defense.
It's unclear what US laws Assange could have broken with his release of US State Department cables, as he is not a US citizen and therefore not bound by US treason laws, and his activities with WikiLeaks were carried out outside the US.
Now this is an interesting turn of events. The most visible witness against Julian Assange has left Sweden, isn't co-operating with authorities, and is expressing support for him.. *And* The prosecution hasn't filed charges, nor has it handed over any documents.
Two what ifs: What if the second witness balks or is deemed un-credible in a decisive-enough fashion, and What if no one can arrest him on anything?
Will they hold him?
Will they let him go?
Will they "Oswald" him?
Mind you, this is only one facet of this expanding, multifaceted event, and the overall pace of events is accelerating. Although I'll be posting something regarding WikiLeaks, I have no idea what it will be, how huge its impact will have, or from what angle it comes.
Only that it will come: Of that, I'm sure..
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