Wikileaks Psyops Takes a New Twist

'Honey trap' ensnares Assange? Time for Julian to cash it that 'insurance' policy?

Are these charges to discredit Wikileaks or to enhance the perception that Assange is not a part of the intelligence services?

Deception is the way of war .....



Wikileaks Founder 'wanted for rape'

Julian Assange, the founder of the whistleblowing WikiLeaks website, is reportedly wanted for rape in Sweden.

The prosecutor's office in Stockholm was said to have issued an arrest warrant late on Friday against Assange for two offences.

"Julian Assange is wanted for two different issues, one of them is that he's suspected of rape in Sweden," Karin Rosande, the director of communications, told the AFP news agency.

The other charge against the 39-year-old Australian national was said to be molestation.

Assange denied the charges on Saturday, stating on his Twitter account that the accusations were "without basis and their issue at this moment is deeply disturbing"

"No one here has been contacted by Swedish police. Needless to say this will prove hugely distracting."

Al Jazeera's Paul Brennan, in London, said: "The two alleged victims in this are in their twenties.
"One is supposed to have happened last weekend in Stockholm and another last Tuesday in Sweden but in a separate town." {more}



Additional reports:

Sweden's The Local

Guardian

Telegraph

UPDATE:

Sweden drops arrest warrant for Wikileaks founder

Aug 21 (Reuters) - Sweden has withdrawn an arrest warrant for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who had been wanted on suspicion of rape and molestation, the National Prosecutor's Office said on Saturday. 

It said in a statement on its website that Chief Prosecutor Eva Finne had determined there were not enough grounds for the warrant.

A spokeswoman for the prosecutor's office said Assange, whose whistle-blowing website last month published secret U.S. military files on Afghanistan, was no longer wanted by Swedish authorities. 

"She (Finne) has come to the decision that he is no longer suspected of rape. All the charges concerning rape have been lifted," she told Reuters.

A police investigation will continue.