The Guardian reports that Swedish authorities have issued an arrest warrant for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on suspicion of molestation and rape:
The warrant was issued late yesterday, said a spokeswoman at Sweden‘s prosecutors’ office in Stockholm.
She said Assange should contact the Swedish police for questioning about the accusations of molestation and rape in two separate cases “so that he can be confronted with the suspicions”.
Assange has denied the charges, which were first reported by the Swedish tabloid Expressen, on Wikileaks’ Twitter account.
Naturally, Assange’s defense is that he’s being targeted because he published confidential U.S. military records:
He implied that [the charges] were linked to the release by the whistleblowers’ website of a huge cache of US military records about the Afghan war, which were published in collaboration with the Guardian and two other papers.
Assange said: “The charges are without basis and their issue at this moment is deeply disturbing.”
Targeted by the Swedes for disclosing U.S. military secrets? Um, I don’t think so.
The more likely culprit is Karma.
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