Quote ="BrisbaneRhino"Very odd behaviour if you ask me, running to a central-american embassy to seek asylum from a western European country.'"
Perhaps he thinks it is more likely he'll get a fairer hearing in a central american country?
Quote I'm still not sure how Sweden has suddenly come to be seen as more of a puppet of the US than the UK, especially given that any ultimate deportation decision would end up in the European courts whether the US attempted to deport him from either Sweden or the UK. '"
Where were the European courts when people were being plucked off the streets of European countries (Italy being a good example) by US Special Forces and "disappeared" into Egyptian or Jordanian torture chambers? Where were the European courts when the US were flying thousands of extraordinary renditions here, there and everywhere across Europe?
And on the subject of Sweden - where were the Swedish courts when the government allowed Swedish airfields to be one of the key stop-off points in all of Europe.
If the
[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Stratfor_email_leakStratfor Leaks[/url and Bradley Manning's lawyers are to be believed (and there is good evidence to suggest that the former certainly are the truth) then there is currently a sealed warrant signed by the US Chief Justice for the arrest of Julian Assange currently pending activation. Bear in mind that under recent legislation by the Obama administration Julian Assange is classified as much a "terrorist" as Osama bin Laden (probably MORE of a terrorist because the threat posed by Wikileaks to the US power establishment is potentially far greater).
Had Assange fled to any other country in Europe (with the exceptions of Germany and France both of whom retain sufficient political clout to deliver Obama a bloody nose) a Special Forces extraction unit would already have picked him up (as has happened with other "terrorists"icon_wink.gif across Europe - in many cases WITH the collusion of the sovereign nation.
Given Sweden's long and sordid history with US rendition my guess is he would have been snatched almost immediately after touching down (any longer and the politics threaten to become extremely messy). And the European Court will do precisely WHAT with a man who now sits in Guantanamo Bay?
