WikiLeaks: Interpol issues wanted notice for Julian Assange

[swag]

Source: The Guardian

The WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, is tonight facing growing legal problems around the world, with the US announcing that it was investigating whether he had violated its espionage laws.

Assange's details were also added to Interpol's worldwide wanted list. Dated 30 November, the entry reads: "sex crimes" and says the warrant has been issued by the international public prosecution office in Gothenburg, Sweden. "If you have any information contact your national or local police." It reads: "Wanted: Assange, Julian Paul," and gives his birthplace as Townsville, Australia.

Friends said earlier that Assange was in a buoyant mood, however, despite the palpable fury emanating from Washington over the decision by WikiLeaks to start publishing more than a quarter of a million mainly classified US cables. He was said to be at a secret location somewhere outside London, along with fellow hackers and WikiLeaks enthusiasts.

In contrast to previous WikiLeaks releases, Assange has, on this occasion, kept a relatively low profile. His attempt to give an interview to Sky News via Skype was thwarted today by a faulty internet connection.



Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/nov/30/interpol-wanted-notice-julian-assange

[Nuclear Unicorn]

1. I hope Interpol/US get him before Russia does

There may be a very, very, VERY thin line between "arrest" and "protective custody."

[abelenkpe]

2. G, I hope he remains free. nt

[Nuclear Unicorn]

3. I hope he remains alive

That may be in doubt if he tweaks the Russians.

[Kurska]

4. He tweaked everyone.

Among the list, Israel, Saudi Arabia and China all have a vested interest in seeing him not in action anymore after the diplomatic cables.

All 3 are openly known to handle issues like this in ways that interpol doesn't.

[northernlights]

5. the article is a joke...all hype, no substance

The "growing list of countries" after Assange is the same 3 that it has been all along. Australia, the US and a nutty prosecutor in Sweden. The Interpol notice based on the failed coitus interruptus doesn't meet the required minimum standards, so can't be upheld. And apparently it's not even an arrest warrant -- they want to question him as a *witness.*
The US has no grounds for espionage against Assange, and it wasn't even clear from Holder's statement that Assange was the target.Australia is still looking for an Australian law that it can claim Assange broke.

They got nothing. :shrug: But the smear attempts are keeping him on page 1. Well done, Assange!

[ronnie624]

47. In reality, Assange's predicament may not be as hopeless as it seems.

The US would be hard pressed to make charges against him stick, experts suggest.

"There have been so few cases under the Espionage Act, you can put them on one hand," said David Banisar, senior legal counsel for the campaigning group Article 19 and an expert on free speech in the US. "There is the practical problem that most of the information published by WikiLeaks wasn't secret. Then there is the debate about whether the documents were properly classified – there are detailed rules in the US about what can and cannot be classified."

[ProgressiveProfessor]

6. What is being fought now is that the warrant is for questioning only at this point

He has not been charged with a crime. Technically that makes the EU and Interpol warrants very questionable.

[cbdo2007]

7. He should be brought in for questioning. We sure don't want him raping anyone else

out there if he's a rapist.

[bc3000]

8. I won't believe any charges against him

The odds that he will have false charges pinned on him seem much, much higher than the possibility he might have actually done something wrong.

[cbdo2007]

14. I doubt it. The guy is power hungry and travels all over the world in disguise using

fake names. He's the exact kind of person who would think he could get away with something like this. He's already admitting he had sexual encounters with these two women on the same day, and he has the perfect alibi - people are mad at him and want to pin false charges on him.

It's strange that so many people assume this guy is innocent yet assume the Notre Dame player who allegedly raped a girl a few weeks ago is guilty.

You may or may not agree with Wikileaks and their MO but we can't just let people get away with rape.

[xiamiam]

15. puhlease..power hungry?..and guilty in your eyes?

[EFerrari]

43. "We" shouldn't run around calling people rapists when there's every reason

to believe these charges are bullshit, should "we".

[high density]

49. Why doesn't Interpol issue "Red Notices" for all alleged rapists?

No sense in singling out just this guy.

[katty]

9. espionage? I doubt that-my god the state dept, etal is a nest

spies...governments look in the mirror!

[Gregorian]

10. So you can reveal the covert name of a CIA agent (Plame), and get a pardon.

But uncover the slime that is going on in secret, because they wouldn't want us to know what they're really doing, and it's all hell breaking loose.

This is exactly what the governments of the world need right now. Rip their clothes off.

[Alamuti Lotus]

11. I guess he struck a nerve

The hypocrites and cowards at the top of the world order now scramble to cover their asses by any sordid means available;--good, they should know fear.

[Pavulon]

12. Maybe he actually raped someone?

but I guess since he is all special now that is not at all possible.

[brentspeak]

17. Oh, yeah. It's a complete coincidence that this "rape" occured at the very same time

that the Powers That Be want to shut him up. Further, it's completely irrelevant that up until a couple of months ago, Julian Assange had never once in his entire life even been rumored to be the type of individual who would commit rape or sexual molestation.

But now, of course, "maybe he actually raped someone." It seems only logical. And completely coincidental.

[howaboutme]

46. Racist, bigot, pedophile, rapist, assasination in that order

works every time to shut up voices that are not supposed to be heard - in that order. Remember how the UN Iraq weapons inspector that testified to keep us out of Iraq became a pedophile.

[Arrowhead2k1]

13. The motive due to the timing of this warrant couldn't be more obvious... nt

[DeSwiss]

16. K&R

And the US rattles its rusty old saber once again on behalf of the forces of Authoritarianism and Capitalism.

"The history of America is just like the history of every other country on this planet: It is a history of deception, fraud and corruption." ~Peter Joseph

[underpants]

18. Interpol puts Assange on most-wanted list

Source: CNN

(CNN) -- Interpol, at the request of a Swedish court looking into alleged sex crimes from earlier this year, has put WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on its most-wanted listed.

The Stockholm Criminal Court two weeks ago issued an international arrest warrant for Assange on probable cause, saying he is suspected of rape, sexual molestation and illegal use of force in August incidents.

The "Red Notice" is not an international arrest warrant. It is an advisory and request, issued to 188 member countries "to assist the national police forces in identifying or locating those persons with a view to their arrest and extradition," according to Interpol.

The Swedish court ordered Assange, 39, formally arrested in his absence, which requires Swedish authorities anywhere in the world to detain Assange if they come across him. Sweden's director of prosecutions, Marianne Ny, had requested the arrest-in-abse


Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/11/30/sweden.interpol.assange/index.html?eref=mrss_igoogle_cnn

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Good luck seeing the new year

[DJ13]

19. Wiki should have thrown in the banking records into this release

Warning (bragging) months in advance they have them and will release them was like waving a red cape in front of a very mad bull.

[tblue37]

30. Yeah--I wish they would just release info instead of giving the targets

so much time to do something to prevent it.

[Hawkeye-X]

20. Here's Interpol's official notice

http://www.interpol.int/public/data/wanted/notices/data/2010/86/2010_52486.asp

[mitchtv]

21. maybe he could get the DC Madame's black book

that was supposed to be released, But.oh yeah she committed suicide

[midnight]

22. I thought those sex crimes were dropped.... Why are they being

resurrected?

[bertman]

23. The International Banking Community, Interpol, AND the U.S. Military/Intelligence

complex looking for your skinny, but brave, ass is a very bad thing, Julian. Go to ground, dude. Ecuador. Code name 'Ecuador'. (Via teleporter 'cause every other transportation route will be watched carefully.)

You are a hero to many of us. We don't want a dead hero.

[howaboutme]

24. Could it be about the banking records?

The way things have come down the banks apparently run the USA and the world now. Everyone else continues to pay for their misdeeds.

If only Wikileaks had the recorded proceedings that took place in 2008 2009 between the Treasury, Fed and Goldman etc. That would be a treasure trove that might enlighten us if only the media would publish them. That's a real big"if" as the MSM has not been at all enthusiastic about inciting public anger over Wall Street.

[SnakeEyes]

25. Yeah... or it could be a scorned women

in a failed tryst. That seems more likely to me that some big conspiracy.

[daleo]

27. Yes, because scorned women are so powerful

While the financial industry is a poor pitiful thing that can't pull any strings.

[SnakeEyes]

29. Usually the simpler answer is the right one.

Don't need a conspiracy here.

[Matariki]

32. The simpler answer isn't the one you're asserting though.

[howaboutme]

44. Remember the time ???

when the good guys on the run from fascist agents could give the story to a zealous objective media that would then expose the corruption, evil and conspiracy to the world, thus saving the country?

I would suggest that those days are gone. It doesn't even happen in the movies anymmore. The press today is just as likely to be in partnership with evil as willing to expose it. They pick and choose what they wish to publish to promote agendas, and the most dangerous aspect is they have their special friends about whom they remain mum.

It is highly likely that the conspiracies that exist today are far more sinister, deeper and complex than anything that a rational but cynical mind could conceive.

[daleo]

48. Iraq war

Simple answer - Saddam had weapons of mass destruction.
Complex answer - Bush and company conspired to lie and deceive the country into a war on a false pretext.

Guess which really happened.

[daleo]

26. Go after Bush, Cheney and Blair

Get some actual criminals, Interpol.

[ProfessionalLeftist]

28. You had to know as soon as he went after the banks...

....they'd declare war on him.

[micraphone]

31. Absolutely correct

Julian has pissed off the most powerful people on the planet. They have long memories. He needs to be anywhere but the US, UK, EU etc.

Keep an irregular schedule. Never spend more than one night in one place. Grow a beard fast and dye the hair.

And NEVER fly in small planes.

[glinda]

33. He needs to let all the info fly now. And move to another planet.

[msongs]

34. He is true change we can believe unlike others who are not nt

[awoke_in_2003]

35. within 6 months...

Assange will be dead- I would bet a quarter pounder on it.

[Blue_Tires]

36. one more mass-release of files and they'll connect him to the 9-11 plot...

[micraphone]

37. why WikiLeaks is such a threat to politicians

I don’t know about you… but I want to read more, not less, about this. Indeed, an editorial in Monday’s Guardian reads in part: “ Before US government officials point accusing fingers at others, they might first have the humility to reflect on their own role in scattering ‘secrets’ around a global intranet.”
http://marccooper.com/why-not-wikileaks/

This is why WikiLeaks is such a threat to politicians and their compliant media patrons. WikiLeaks shines a bright and unforgiving light into the dark corners of government secrecy.
And the politicians and their self-serving media paramours will be exposed for the cesspool of criminals, rogues and hedonistic nitwits that they are.

Now, for the first time, the people have access to the truth in its raw, unadulterated state.

For the powerful, truth is terrorism.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9649574

[howaboutme]

45. well said

In this day and age where the media is as likely to be in partnership with government misinformation, than actively exposing the truth, raw information to the public is a threat. The truth today is far more likely to be obscured than at any time in our history, even with the internet.

[muriel_volestrangler]

39. Strange that CNN describes "an advisory and request" as the "most-wanted list"

Rather over-dramatic, I'd say.

[maddezmom]

40. reading the intertube today, it's not only CNN

OT: How's the weather where you are? :hi:

[muriel_volestrangler]

41. Weather? Chilly, with 3mm or less of snow, which melted as soon as it fell

Yeah, 0.3mm of precipitation in the past 24 hours, according to an online weather station a couple of miles away. I'm amazed they shut Gatwick, since it's not that far away. A Crawley weather station says just 0.8mm of precipitation, so that can't be more than 8mm of snow. The English use snow as an excuse: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=191x32536

:hi:

[maddezmom]

42. my son was on a school bus from 2pm til 7:20 pm due to traffic

we probably got about 3/4 of an inch and it's still on the ground, but where his school is located rec'd 4+. And the M-25 traffic made getting through the round about a nightmare. Oh well, both kids are home from school today. Not sure what tomorrow will bring but if it's bad I'll keep him home again. :)

[FinGovi]

38. Hey Julian

if you really need a place to hide...follow my IP to a safe location.