WikiLeaks' Founder Assange Arrested in London

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WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange was arrested by U.K. police after turning himself in to authorities, the Metropolitan Police said in a statement.

Assange, 39, of Australia, has been accused of one count of unlawful coercion, two counts of sexual molestation and one count of rape stemming from incidents with two women in Sweden in August.

He was arrested by the Metropolitan Police's Extradition Unit at 9:30 a.m, GMT and is due to appear later today in City of Westminster Magistrates Court. A magistrate will likely set bail for Assange, according to a police spokesman.

Assange has maintained that his encounters with the women were consensual, and Swedish prosecutors initially dropped rape charges.

However, Swedish Director of Public Prosecution Marianne Ny re-opened the investigation into the rape charges and said she wanted to question Assange, who was allowed to leave Sweden after the incidents.

Since then, Assange has spent time in the U.K., making few public appearances. The pressure has intensified on him as WikiLeaks began releasing portions of 250,000 secret U.S. diplomatic cables late last month.

Some U.S. politicians have called for his arrest, while the U.S. Attorney General's office is investigating whether he could be charged under the Espionage Act for releasing the material.

The U.S. Army has already charged Private First Class Bradley E. Manning with mishandling and transferring classified information in connection with the cables and a video of an Apache helicopter shooting civilians in Iraq. He is believed to have passed the material to WikiLeaks.

Meanwhile, WikiLeaks has taken steps to make its infrastructure more resilient after its website came under repeated denial-of-service attacks. WikiLeaks was also booted from Amazon Web Services after it was briefly hosted on its servers.

But more than 350 other websites are now up that are distributing WikiLeaks' content, posing further difficulties for authorities seeking to halt the release of the material.

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[Nemesis]

good luck stopping the flow of that information...

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All he has to do now is release the secret documentation showing that the CIA had set up the rape charges. This should prove his innocence. You live by the sword. You die my the sword.

[henz]

secret documentation about rape :fear:

[DKT27]

I was researching on this issue. And I found that what exactly he is arrested was having "unprotected" sex without other person's consent. Which happens to be a law only in Sweden and can be counted as rape. I mean, you put so many people behind a guy for having unprotected sex? Never thought that law was followed so well by the authorities. :huh:

[Atasas]

Long time was sitting on a fence, but arresting him- not right!

 Obviously it is load BS about a rape(failed extortion in my book) etc but fella should not have been framed. Strong anti big players feeling is gonna come and will do more damage, than actual leaks.

[Atasas]

I was researching on this issue. And I found that what exactly he is arrested was having "unprotected" sex without other person's consent. Which happens to be a law only in Sweden and can be counted as rape. I mean, you put so many people behind a guy for having unprotected sex? Never thought that law was followed so well by the authorities. :huh:

again- failed extortion...

[RadioActive]

Do those idiots think that people are THAT stupid? Do they actually think that anyone would believe those charges that conveniently came to light AFTER he published those documents? Gimme a break!

[Atasas]

^lolz^

[Sonar]

Visa web site down

Mastercard to follow

Those who are against wiki are being ddossed to hell ...

INFO: 10:00 ITV NEWS (England)

[shought]

This stuff is all over the news in our country as well; 'hackers are attacking ... site'. Hackers, LOL! People using a DDoS tool are not hackers, they're just people with an opinion :) (This might be considered as 'cheating', in our current society, though. I mean, people shouldn't have opinions, right? :rolleyes:)

[Atasas]

This stuff is all over the news in our country as well; 'hackers are attacking ... site'. Hackers, LOL! People using a DDoS tool are not hackers, they're just people with an opinion 0(This might be considered as 'cheating', in our current society, though. I mean, people shouldn't have opinions, right? :rolleyes:)

well said!

(mind sharing the script?(macros))

[Sonar]

This stuff is all over the news in our country as well; 'hackers are attacking ... site'. Hackers, LOL! People using a DDoS tool are not hackers, they're just people with an opinion 0(This might be considered as 'cheating', in our current society, though. I mean, people shouldn't have opinions, right? :rolleyes:)

well said!

(mind sharing the script?(macros))

script macros? just type in google "ion cannon" find the correct page from SourceForge.net (wont post direct links as im not sure its ok here)

not sure i read your reply wrong lol

[box]

Do those idiots think that people are THAT stupid? Do they actually think that anyone would believe those charges that conveniently came to light AFTER he published those documents? Gimme a break!

That is exactly how to rob a bank and get away. All I have to do is release some classified (embarrassing) documents, then rob a bank afterward. When I am brought on charges for robbing a bank, then I can claim that I was framed. This is very smart. Why didn't I think of that?

So just because he released some (embarrassing?) documents that would automatically entitle him to immunity from alleged crimes. As far as I am concerned, he was brought up on charges of rape. He has the right to stand trial and face his accusers just like any one else in his country. Just like the judge said, the allegations are about rape and not about releasing classified documents.

BTW: The shits (embarrassing parts) released weren't even a big deal. People must be naive to learn that diplomacy is nice and neat when I fact it is all about who has the upper hand. Shit, we spy on our neighbors just because we can. Crap, I even go as far as calling the guy in the mirror ________. (You guys fill in the blank.)

This is my personal observation. Some of the classified documents that Julian Assange released to the public will endanger innocent people whose only interest was to better humanity. Julian Assange have knowingly put the lives of these people at risk so he can expose the wrong doings of others. (This is kinda like having unprotected sex without the consent from his partners. Hell, if he did that to me, then I will definitely scream RAPE too. Well, not exactly the same but you get the idea.) This is the case where the ends does not justified the means.

[box]

This stuff is all over the news in our country as well; 'hackers are attacking ... site'. Hackers, LOL! People using a DDoS tool are not hackers, they're just people with an opinion :) (This might be considered as 'cheating', in our current society, though. I mean, people shouldn't have opinions, right? :rolleyes:)

This is why ET don't come back to Earth to visit any more. Too many stupid humans doing wrong things in the name of righteousness and totally disregarding the innocent bystanders.

In my line of work, we have this saying: "Kill them all and let God sort them out."

[Brrownie]

As Ernest Hemingway wrote, "You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly, you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."

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As Ernest Hemingway wrote, "You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly, you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."

Good one!

[RadioActive]

That is exactly how to rob a bank and get away. All I have to do is release some classified (embarrassing) documents, then rob a bank afterward. When I am brought on charges for robbing a bank, then I can claim that I was framed. This is very smart. Why didn't I think of that?

So just because he released some (embarrassing?) documents that would automatically entitle him to immunity from alleged crimes. As far as I am concerned, he was brought up on charges of rape. He has the right to stand trial and face his accusers just like any one else in his country. Just like the judge said, the allegations are about rape and not about releasing classified documents.

BTW: The shits (embarrassing parts) released weren't even a big deal. People must be naive to learn that diplomacy is nice and neat when I fact it is all about who has the upper hand. Shit, we spy on our neighbors just because we can. Crap, I even go as far as calling the guy in the mirror ________. (You guys fill in the blank.)

This is my personal observation. Some of the classified documents that Julian Assange released to the public will endanger innocent people whose only interest was to better humanity. Julian Assange have knowingly put the lives of these people at risk so he can expose the wrong doings of others. (This is kinda like having unprotected sex without the consent from his partners. Hell, if he did that to me, then I will definitely scream RAPE too. Well, not exactly the same but you get the idea.) This is the case where the ends does not justified the means.

I'm afraid your argument is flawed because he's being charged of something he done in the past and already got the charges dropped at the time, yet for some reason they re-opened the case only AFTER he published those documents. I don't know about you, but that sounds like a "smear campaign".