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Turborama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-05-10 12:40 PM
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Wikileaks' Julian Assange to fight Swedish allegations (legal moves against him "political stunt")
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Edited on Sun Dec-05-10 01:12 PM by Turborama
Source: BBC

December 05 2010 Last updated at 13:12 GMT

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange will fight attempts to take him to Sweden to face rape allegations, his lawyer said.

Mark Stephens told the BBC that legal moves against his client seem(ed) to be a "political stunt" by a state that allowed US rendition flights.

He warned Wikileaks could release more secrets in a bid to protect itself.

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Mr Stephens warned that the organisation held further secret material which it regarded as a "thermo-nuclear device" to be released if it needs to protect itself.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11921080


Short clip of the interview at the link.
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