WikiLeaks founder says he's been targeted by smear campaign

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Stockholm, Sweden (CNN) -- WikiLeaks founder and editor Julian Assange said Swedish authorities reached "the height of irresponsibility" by issuing an arrest warrant alleging rape against him, then revoking it less than a day later.

"It is clearly a smear campaign," Assange told Arabic news network Al-Jazeera in a live telephone interview Sunday. "... The only question is, who was involved?"

Asked who he thinks was behind the accusations, Assange told the network, "We have some suspicions about who would benefit, but without direct evidence, I would not be willing to make a direct allegation."

Meanwhile, the Swedish Prosecution Authority said in an update on its website that Assange's name was leaked to the media, and the authority -- which does not normally publish the names of suspects -- "did not in this case

initiate publication."

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/08/22/sweden.wikileaks.assange/index.html?hpt=T1

[Egalitariat]

1. A smear campaign is his best case scenario. What did he expect would happen?