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WikiLeaks Founder Added To The Interpol Wanted List
« on: December 01, 2010, 04:28:29 AM »
Wouldn't want to be Julian Assange this week.
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WikiLeaks Founder Added To The Interpol Wanted List

Two days after Internet whistleblower WikiLeaks released 251,287 U.S. diplomatic cables to major media organizations including the New York Times and Der Spiegel, international police organization Interpol has placed founder Julian Assange on its wanted list for “Sex Crimes,” in a warrant issued by the Public Prosecution Office in Gothenburg, Sweden.

While Assange might be facing criminal charges if he returns to his native Australia and is under investigation in the US for espionage, the Interpol mediated charges here are in connection with rape allegations made by two different Swedish women back in August.

While Interpol makes it clear that its infamous Red Notice list does not function as an international arrest warrant, it does serve the purpose of broadcasting internationally that the person in question is a fugitive and can aide in extradition process.

Assange, who has previously denied the allegations, is rumored to currently be hiding in the United Kingdom, which as of yet has not shown any signs of taking legal action. The @wikileaks Twitter account has remained dormant since news about the release went out.
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Re: WikiLeaks Founder Added To The Interpol Wanted List
« Reply #1 on: December 01, 2010, 05:31:43 AM »
Rape charges were dropped some days back.  This is getting bizarre ...one charge seems to be that he engaged in unprotected sex.  If that's a crime deserving of an Interpol Wanted List then it's got to be a REALLY big list.

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/wikileaks-sex-scandal-deepens-as-estranged-son-enters-the-fray-20100830-143ao.html
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Re: WikiLeaks Founder Added To The Interpol Wanted List
« Reply #2 on: December 01, 2010, 05:35:03 AM »
Maybe he just pissed off too many people and now they're gunning for him w/ anything they can use
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Re: WikiLeaks Founder Added To The Interpol Wanted List
« Reply #3 on: December 01, 2010, 10:55:04 AM »
I may be missing the point somewhere, but whilst his alleged behaviour isn't exactly the exemplar of chivalry, getting an Interpol warrant for not calling someone you had a one nighter with, and refusing to take an STD test? I think a significant percentage of the male poulation of the world (and for that matter, the female population of the world) might be guilty of that at one time or another.

And the refusal to take an STD test thing just confuses me. Why would it matter whether *he* took a test or not? Surely, it's his partner du jour who would need the test, to see if she had contracted anything. If she's worried about her health, it's her medical status that needs determining, not someone elses.

It's behaviour that is morally questionable, sure, but criminal? Really?
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Re: WikiLeaks Founder Added To The Interpol Wanted List
« Reply #4 on: December 01, 2010, 11:44:58 AM »
Without getting into the political side, I tend to side with Assange's efforts and have so since he first appeared on the international scene.  That said, something about wikileaks has always seemed disjointed to me. Everyone involved, protagonists AND antagonists, smell slightly off to me so I've taken a wait-and-see attitude.
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Re: WikiLeaks Founder Added To The Interpol Wanted List
« Reply #5 on: December 01, 2010, 12:14:35 PM »
>Maybe he just pissed off too many people and now they're gunning for him w/ anything they can use

My thought exactly when I read about it yesterday. A lot of people would like to see him taken down.
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Re: WikiLeaks Founder Added To The Interpol Wanted List
« Reply #6 on: December 01, 2010, 03:38:32 PM »
>>>>I tend to side with Assange's efforts

I think I'm on the other side
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Re: WikiLeaks Founder Added To The Interpol Wanted List
« Reply #7 on: December 01, 2010, 03:56:56 PM »
I've been wondering if this isn't some elaborate double game.

Things might be very dangerous right now in NKorea if they are feeling cornered, and the latest leaks might effect the succession - I keep wondering if that is the intent.
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Re: WikiLeaks Founder Added To The Interpol Wanted List
« Reply #8 on: December 01, 2010, 04:08:19 PM »
Interesting as this thread could become, I think it might be right on the edge of the 'no politics' rule  :)
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Re: WikiLeaks Founder Added To The Interpol Wanted List
« Reply #9 on: December 01, 2010, 04:38:18 PM »
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tend to side with Assange's efforts

Me too.

I have no idea whether he is a decent guy or a mass rapist - so I can't say I support him personally, of course.  However, for any democracy it is probably on-balance a good idea for there to be a safety valve that insiders can use when the elected powers seek to hide their dishonesty or illegal activities. I would rather there were some damaging leaks than let our (or anyone else's) governments have the total secrecy they would prefer.

I don't think it is a 'partisan politics' issue - at least not for me  - I just think that 'fear of leaks' can help keep ALL politicians a little more honest, and a big juicy precedent like this is probably a price worth paying.
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Re: WikiLeaks Founder Added To The Interpol Wanted List
« Reply #10 on: December 06, 2010, 06:41:26 PM »
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Re: WikiLeaks Founder Added To The Interpol Wanted List
« Reply #11 on: December 06, 2010, 09:37:23 PM »
I thought all the documents on WikiLeaks were already viewable under the Freedom of Information Act.  The site just made it easier to find them...

Am I missing something....?
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Re: WikiLeaks Founder Added To The Interpol Wanted List
« Reply #12 on: December 06, 2010, 10:28:33 PM »
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Re: WikiLeaks Founder Added To The Interpol Wanted List
« Reply #13 on: December 08, 2010, 01:31:20 AM »
Quote from: 4Eyes on December 01, 2010, 04:38:18 PM
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tend to side with Assange's efforts
Me too.

Me three.

Also, just heard a piece on NPR about the "rape" charges thing. Which, really, really, really makes very little sense aside from the "pissed enough people off, now they'll use any excuse to lock him up" angle. It doesn't sound like anything happened that would qualify for charges in the US. Being an @sshole is not a crime here, although perhaps the laws are much stricter there?

At any rate, they denied him bail, so I'm sure all the ridiculous details will be all over the news as soon as legal proceedings start in earnest.
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Re: WikiLeaks Founder Added To The Interpol Wanted List
« Reply #14 on: December 08, 2010, 10:22:27 PM »
From CNN.com
 
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It could take dozens of years -- maybe hundreds -- to figure out the combination of letters, numbers and symbols comprising the 256-key code.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/12/08/wikileaks.poison.pill/index.html?hpt=C1

It's said that it is nearly impossible to crack the code of "The Insurance" file without a key.  I have to say, that made me smile.  And it makes me smile that the information is scattered so far around the web it cannot be pulled down completely.

I don't like that some of the military informants were named, however.  That basically puts a target on their head, and I don't like that.  I fear what some foreign governments would do to these people if they captured them...

I remember a long time ago, I watched a tv show about an illegal ham radio station that was playing music and the FCC was trying to shut them down.  So they put the transmitter into the back of a jeep and drove around in circles to escape from being "triangulated" and found.  That's what this case reminds me of...only on a massive scale. 
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