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Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange Cleared of Rape Accusation

Charles Wilson

August 21^st, 2010

The Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, has been cleared of rape and molestation charges in Sweden. He had earlier denied the allegations, saying through Twitter that the charges were “without basis and their issue at this moment is deeply disturbing.”.

Sweden's chief prosecutor, Eva Finné, announced that Assange was no longer accused. “I don't think there is reason to suspect that he has committed rape,” she said, but declined to go into any more details.

Is Assange innocent? Probably, and this opinion is mainly because of the timing. How many accusations of sexual harassment has Julian Assuage been accused of? Now two accusations within a week, and at a sensitive time like this. Too much coincidence.

This is not the first time that a honey trap has been used in Sweden. In the 1970s a brothel with Polish prostitutes was visited by some of Sweden’s top politicians. The women had contacts with the KGB agents at the Polish Embassy in Stockholm. This scandal was suppressed in the Swedish media at the time and none of the politicians had to testify in court. The politicians suspected of being involved included the Minister of Justice and two Prime Ministers.

Wikileaks is planning on releasing more government and military documents about the war in Afghanistan, on its web site. The White House and the Pentagon are desperate to stop the publication. Could they be trying to sully the public face of Wikileaks, and thereby Wikileaks’ image.

Last week Sweden's Pirate Party, which already hosts the controversial site Pirate Bay, signed an agreement under which the Swedish political party will now host Wikileaks’ servers under the political party’s protection.

Anna Troberg, the Swedish Pirate Party’s deputy party leader said, “Wikileaks will place there servers together with the Pirate Party’s servers, and the Pirate Party’s IT technicians will maintain and take care of these servers and we will make sure that they are always connected to the Internet.”

Wikileaks’ servers are situated in a number of countries, meaning that shutting the site down has proven to be nearly impossible.

Since the Pirate Party will now become host of one of many of Wikileaks’ mirror servers, having the protection of a political party will insulat Wikileaks from governments trying to shut it down. It is legally and politically difficult for Swedish prosecutorsto authorize raids and seizures of the property of political parties as oposed to an organization.

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