Interpol issued arrest warrant for WikiLeaks chief as chaos spreads

[Zakii]

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Interpol warrant for WikiLeaks chief as chaos spreads

Updated at: 0801 PST, Wednesday, December 01, 2010
WASHINGTON: Interpol on Wednesday issued a global arrest warrant for the shadowy founder of WikiLeaks, as the chaos from its massive dump of secret US cables spread from governments to financial markets.

The United States suspended the military's access to some sensitive US diplomatic correspondence in a bid to stop new leaks, as the leaders of France and Pakistan were the latest to be stung by cables obtained by the website.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, a 39-year-old Australian computer hacker, is wanted in Sweden for questioning over the alleged rape and molestation of two women. Assange has denied the charges.

Interpol, which is based in Lyon, France, said early Wednesday local time that it had alerted all member states to arrest Assange if he is spotted. He spends much of his time in Britain and Sweden.

Assange is said to lead a spy-like life of rarely sleeping in the same place twice. Ecuador's left-leaning government initially offered Assange residency, but President Rafael Correa backtracked Tuesday.

Assange told a magazine that the bank leak would "give a true and representative insight into how banks behave at the executive level in a way that will stimulate investigations and reforms, I presume."

In another interview conducted from an undisclosed location over Internet phone, Assange told a magazine that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton should resign over a cable that appeared to show the United States ordered diplomats to spy on foreign officials, particularly at the United Nations.

State Department spokesman Philip Crowley said that Clinton did not draft the document and that her name was affixed systematically to many cables out of Washington.

Crowley said the State Department had temporarily suspended the Pentagon's access to some of its correspondence, halting a trend to greater information sharing within the US government launched after the September 11, 2001 attacks.

[Donatello]

What's the point?

The damage has been done.

You can consider him Che Guevara or Hitler.

[Hindustani]

What's the point?

The damage has been done.

You can consider him Che Guevara or Hitler.

There may be worse topics that the U.S. doesn't want us to know about

[Awesome]

The threat of bank leaks is what could have probably prompted this. You don't mess with the money and live to tell the tale about it.

[Agnostic_Indian]

A super power is desperatly trying to save their face...this shows how powerful a media can be..they brought a super power on knees with out firing a single bullet.

[Dreamreaper]

The threat of bank leaks is what could have probably prompted this. You don't mess with the money and live to tell the tale about it.

Ditto...

You cant mess with banks these days...Citi group's yearly circulation is about 3 trillion dollars,and thats just one bank...
With such huge amount of money at their disposal,they can easily buy a government if they want..Buying two women for rape allegation is no biggy.

[Awesome]

Well it should be up to the public to decide, if the public wants to be in the know it should speak up and change the constitution to allow for such websites to exist.

Obviously shutting down wikileaks would lead to many wikileak clones

[Hindustani]

I'm pretty damn sure they have other wesbites ready to distribute the leaks.

[Zakii]

I'm pretty damn sure they have other wesbites ready to distribute the leaks.

the matter has reached to interpol now... if they try to be smart and release more documents on other sites... they may be further screwed up by the interpol

Good that the arrest warrant is issued otherwise they have already managed to grab a lot of attention globally and created a lot of rifts in relationships of Pakistan & the world

[Unbeliever]

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I am very skeptical about these accusations and while I regard people speculating on his assassination as hysterical, I also think that these rape accusations right after the Pentagon release are a little to convenient.