False Charges Made Against Mr. Assange?* Updated Wednesday, September 1, 2010

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Updated Again Wednesday, September 1, 2010** (See below).

Updated: Sunday, August 22, 2010 & Monday, August 23, 2010*
False Charges Made Against Mr. Assange?  At least one other blogger suspects that is so.  See the link to the Swedish tabloid Expressen below;

http://www.expressen.se/Nyheter/1.2105554/anhallan-mot-assange-havd

The Swedish tabloid 'Expressen' has reported that the rape charge(s) against Julian Assange have been dropped. See the link up top (if you can read Swedish). If not, here is a very rough translation of the brief and sketchy article below (Copyright 2010 Expressen) ~"Charge Argued Against Assange (or Dropped) - Chief Prosecuter Eva Finn has lifted the (charge) on/of Julian Assange. [But she still might feel that he is suspected of "rape".] But there is no longer any reason to put him into custody said Karin Rosander, Director/Public Prosecution. Chief Prosecutor Eva lifted a petition against Assange at 4:30 pm. So he does not need to surrender to the police. Suspicions of molestation against him have also been addressed, according to Karin Rosander, but they are not written off yet. 'Has the suspicion of rape been reclassified?' I cannot answer, was her response. This is the decision taken at this time. Karin Rosander says that as far as she knows, the police and prosecutors had no contact with Julian Assange. 'We have been unable to contact him', she said. City police in Stockholm would not comment on its investigation without referring to the prosecutor."   Fair Use of the translation is claimed for this posting.







At least one blogger (Zennie62, I think it was, pardon me if I got that wrong), believes it is part of a smear campaign against Julian Assange. As you probably know, Mr. Assange has recently been in the news for his release & posting of secret Afghanistan files (the 'Afghanistan War Diaries') on his website Wikileaks. If these events are indeed connected, look for this posting to suddenly and mysteriously disappear. And if that happens, very malignant and malicious forces may be at work here.






The somewhat defensive position of the Prosecution and the silence of the police would suggest that they may have been given false information in regards to any charges against Mr. Assange. However, it might NOT be helpful for Mr. Assange to make any public statements himself. It would be much better if his counsel were to make any statements. We abjectly apologize to all parties if this posting creates any further difficulty in their pursuit of this (legal?) matter.






But, it seems to us, that police and prosecutors drop serious charges like this quickly if they are found to be baseless and without witnesses - even though 2 women have apparently made this case against the man. No, we don't know the original bases for the charges and are pursuing further. This will take some time and we apologize for not having all the facts together at this time.
 
The rape charge/s, the molestation charge/s, the dropping of some or the same (against Julian Assange) and the publication of the Afghan War Diaries seem somehow related to each other by their proximity in time.  It is also very curious that this new scandal seems to be located in Stockholm *.

Just in today (Sunday, August 22, 2010) Wikileaks (?) has made the claim that the Pentagon may be behind the filing of the false rape charges against Julian Assange (**).
* And today, Monday, Aug. 23, 2010, we did a search of police reports on the Swedish Polis website.  We were unable to locate a copy of the report.  Many other reports are, however, available.  Why the apparent secrecy?  Also, we have contacted the Wikileaks people (USA) and asked if they could provide us with a copy of the report.  We have not heard from them, nor do we expect to.  They may be getting 1K+ emails a day...
 
FOM:**WikiRapes,  Sweden Reopens Wikileaks Founder Investigation (BBC News, Sept. 1, 2010), *Statement from the Swedish Prosecutor's Office & FAQs,  *Wikileaks Man Says Pentagon May Be Behind Rape Claims (Yahoo!News, Sunday, August 22, 2010),  Sweden Drops Accusation of Rape Against Founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange Rape Charge Reads of Smear and Snorting McChrystal