Revealed: Assange 'rape' accuser linked to notorious CIA operative

Assange Accuser Worked with US-Funded, CIA-Tied Anti-Castro Group
Source: Alexander Coburn via Firedog Lake Yesterday Alexander Cockburn reminded us of the news Israel Shamir and Paul Bennett broke at Counterpunch in September. Julian Assange’s chief accuser in Sweden has a significant history of work with anti-Castro groups, at least one of which is US funded and openly supported by a former CIA agent convicted in the mass Murder of seventy three Cubans on an airliner he was involved in blowing up. "Anna Ardin (the official complainant) is often described by ...

Revealed: Assange rape accuser linked to notorious CIA operative
Stumble This! One of the women that is accusing Wikileaks founder Julian Assange of Sex Crimes appears to have worked with a group that has connections to the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). James D. Catlin, a lawyer who recently represented Assange, said the sex assault investigation into the Wikileaks founder is based on claims he didn't use Condoms during sex with two Swedish women. Swedish prosecutors told AOL News last week that Assange was not wanted for Rape as has been reported, b...

'Sex by Surprise' at Heart of Julian Assange Criminal Probe
(Dec. 2) -- The international Manhunt for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in a sex-crime investigation in Sweden apparently stems from a Condom malfunction. Assange's London attorney, Mark Stephens, told AOL News today that Swedish prosecutors told him that Assange is wanted not for allegations of Rape, as previously reported, but for something called "sex by surprise," which he said involves a fine of 5,000 kronor or about $715. Assange is the subject of an international manhunt, as a result o...

Sweden Denies International Pressure Led To Assange Arrest
The international Arrest Warrant for Julian Assange that originated out of Sweden on allegations of Rape has been served in the United Kingdom, and Swedish officials are vehemently denying that international concerns had anything to do with it. Liberals and Wikileaks supporters have argued that the second degree Rape charge that Assange faces has been manufactured in order to get him out of the spotlight and away from his organization. But politicians and correspondents argue that a so-called "honey trap

Wikileaking Cuba: the plot thickens
As more of the Wikileak documents are examined and Julian Assange is investigated, the plot thickens regarding Cuba and the Castro Dictatorship. It turns out that one of the women accusing Assange of Rape, a Swedish feminist named Anna Ardin, has some very deep ties to Cuba. Miami -- One of the two Swedish women whose complaints led to the arrest of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been identified as a supporter of Cuban Dissident groups. Anna Ardin's links to Cuba were posted on several web...

Rep. King introduces anti-WikiLeaks bill in the House
Incoming House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Pete King (R-N.Y.) introduced a bill Thursday aimed at stopping Wikileaks by making it illegal to publish the names of Military or intelligence community informants. The bill is a companion to the Senate version unveiled last week. King has previously called on Attorney General Eric Holder to prosecute Wikileaks founder Julian Assange under the Espionage Act. He said the Securing Human Intelligence and Enforcing Lawful Dissemination (SHIELD) ...

Anna Ardin, Jullian Assange Rape Accuser, May Have Ceased Pursuing Claims
The Rape accusations against Julian Assange may be falling apart as one of his accusers leaves Sweden. Anna Ardin, one of two women behind the Rape charges against the Wikileaks founder, may no loger be cooperating with prosecutors, the Australian website Crikey reports. Julian Assange has been fighting sex charges from Sweden and is now in British custody. According to Crikey: Ardin, who also goes by the name Bernardin, has moved to the West Bank in the Palestinian Territories, as part of a...

Julian Assange arrested in UK, refused bail
* UPDATE Assange appeared in court later in the day and was refused bail. He's been remanded until another hearing next week. He said at today's hearing that he would fight Extradition. Julian Assange , the Wikileaks spokesperson and so-called Terrorist, has been arrested by the Metropolitan Police. Sky News got the scoop. Scotland Yard said last night that it would pursue Assange over Sex Crime allegations. A fresh warrant has apparently been received by Assange's lawyer and is being looked ov...

Protests, Cyber-Skirmishes Rage Over WikiLeaks
LONDON — Skirmishes raged across cyberspace Thursday between Wikileaks supporters and the companies they accuse of trying to stifle the group, with websites on both sides of the battle line taken out of service or choked off by attacks. The U.N.'s top Human Rights official raised the alarm over officials' and corporations' moves to cut off WikiLeaks' funding and starve it of server space – something she described as a "potentially violating WikiLeaks' right to freedom of expression...

Despite arrest, Assange extradition faces hurdles
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, back to camera, is driven into Westminster Magistrates Court in London Tuesday Dec. 7, 2010 after being arrested on a European Arrest Warrant. Assange is appearing at the court for his Extradition hearing for Sexual Assault allegations in Sweden. Some of the Wikileaks critics who cheered founder Julian Assange's arrest may want to think again. The prospect of Assange being sent to Sweden in a sex-crimes inquiry may make it less likely that he'll wind up before a...

Despite arrest, Assange extradition faces hurdles
LONDON (AP) — Some of the Wikileaks critics who cheered founder Julian Assange’s arrest may want to think again. The prospect of Assange being sent to Sweden in a sex-crimes inquiry may make it less likely that he’ll wind up before an American judge, something politicians and pundits including Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut have called for. That’s because Britain has one of the most U.S.-friendly Extradition regimes in Europe. Sweden, with its tough media-protection la...

Assange Defenders Attack Rape Accusers for No Good Reason
Rachael, I have to agree with you that the circumstances of Julian Assange's arrest are suspicious as hell and that the charges against Assange seem credible enough. I'm surprised at how many people find it impossible to hold both thoughts in their heads at once and believe that because Interpol is exploiting the Sexual Assault charges to get Assange, it must mean the charges themselves are lies. I often caution people not to assume Conspiracy when opportunism is what's likely in play. Even befo...

The Daily Links Post: 2010-12-09
Framed for Murder? - NYTimes.com Wikileaks « Toma de Decisiones. Miguel Angel Ariño Julian Assange Rape case: complainant Anna Ardin might not co-operate with Police. No related posts. RSSSubscribe now! Edward Harrison is the founder of Credit Writedowns and a former strategy and finance executive with twenty years of business experience. He started his career as a diplomat and speaks six languages, a skill he uses to provide a more global perspective. Edward holds an MBA in Fin...

Wikileaks Founder, Julian Assange, Arrested And Denied Bail
British Police arrested Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks on a warrant that was issued by Sweden for Sex Crime allegations, stemming from accusations from two women that accused him of Rape back in August. Julian Assange, the founder of the WikiLeaks Web site whose release of sensitive U.S. documents on the Internet has generated outrage and embarrassment in official circles, was arrested by British Police Tuesday morning on a Swedish warrant and faced the prospect of Extradition to Sweden ...

WikiLeaks' Assange fights extradition to Sweden
WikiLeaks describes targeted attack on State Dept. A British judge on Tuesday denied bail for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange after he told a London court he intends to fight his Extradition to Sweden on Sex Crime allegations. Judge Howard Riddle told Assange that he had "substantial grounds'' to believe the 39-year-old Australian wouldn't turn up for subsequent proceedings. He then put Assange into U.K. custody ahead of an Extradition hearing. Assange faces allegations of sex crimes in Sweden...

Why is Olbermann Linking to an Anti-Semite?
Michael C. Moynihan reports: Here’s how an evidence-free, innuendo-filled personal attack on a Rape accuser trespasses the mainstream political debate. On his Twitter feed, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann (162,000 followers) links to a rambling blog post arguing that Anna Ardin, the Swedish feminist who accused Assange of rape, is an anti-Castro Activist with connections to CIA front groups. Elsewhere on the Internet, NYU Professor Mark Crispin Miller, the popular liberal website FireDogLake, Bia...

If the condom breaks, it's gotta be rape.
By Capt. Fogg Sitting in a doctor's waiting room for three hours yesterday morning, I had to listen to "Liberal" CNN chewing endlessly on the two stories of the morning: the terminal illness of Elizabeth Edwards and the Sex Crimes of Julian Assange. Whatever your opinion of the man and of Wikileaks; whether it's black and white or very mixed, as mine is, I think we have to disassociate the propriety of publishing government communications with what just might be another US government inspired ...

Cowardice and Bravery
Michael, my friend Glen Litsinger CC’d me on an email he sent to Robert Murphy that appears similar to the one he sent you. I was planning on blogging my response to a different part of the email that I received (and I don’t know whether our messages were identical). His email starts: [I]n [Robert Murphy's] article, which I pasted below, are you saying that if Lew Rockwell was pressured by the government into not publishing works by such anti-statists as Murray Rothbard, Raimondo, ...

More Problems for WikiLeaks: Switzerland Cuts Off Founder's Bank Account
Do you like this story? Switzerland has taken new action against Wikileaks by shutting down founder Julian Assange’s Bank Account. PostFinance — which is owned by the Swiss Post, itself a public company owned by the Swiss Confederation — said in a statement earlier today that it has closed Julian Assange’s account for failing to provide proof of Swiss Citizenship. “Finance has ended its business relationship with WikiLeaksWikileaks founder Julian Paul Assange. The A...

Untethered
News from London that Julian Assange is detained on the Swedish allegation of what is called “Rape, sexual molestation and unlawful coercion.” Spoke John Burns in London NYT, to learn that the charges are unrelated to the documents, and that Assange will resist the Deportation for up to 90 days. Assange will resist in jail. More intriguing is the Assange threat to release all the documents at once by sending a so-called Password to the encryption of a 1.4 gigabyte trove. There are o...

What Glenn Beck and WikiLeaks' Julian Assange have in common
The philosophy that appears to drive Wikileaks' Julian Assange lies in a deep-seated distrust of governments - something that bridges any left-right divide....

Outcry against Assange intensifies
Published: Dec. 9, 2010 at 2:29 PM A Chinese magazine featuring a front-page story on embattled Wikileaks' founder Julian Assange goes on sale at a news stand in Beijing December 9, 2010. China has blocked Internet access to Wikileaks' release of more than 250,000 and counting U.S. Department of State cables, with its Foreign Ministry saying that it does not wish to see any disturbances in China-U.S. relations. UPI/Stephen Shaver London, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- As Julian Assange, the controver...

Temple Prof. Calls WikiLeaker A Cyber-Terrorist
(Temple University Professor Christopher Harper, inset, and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, right. Harper photo provided; Assange photo by Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images) Philadelphia (CBS) - A Temple University Journalism Professor is calling the man behind the Wikileaks releases a “cyber-terrorist” and is questioning the ethics of publications willing to accept him as a source. Christopher Harper (inset photo) is co-director of Temple University’s Multimedia Urban ...

Law.com: Companies Begin Distancing Themselves After WikiLeaks Founder's Arrest
On Law.com, Sue Reisinger reports on financial companies restricting funding to Wikileaks following its founder Julian Assange's arrest. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been arrested, as Visa and MasterCard joined companies that are distancing themselves from the online publisher of classified documents to avoid increased scrutiny and political pressure. Assange was arrested in Great Britain where a London judge Tuesday denied him bail. He said in court he would continue fighting efforts t...

REMINDER: The "Sex Crime" That Julian Assange Was Just Arrested For Wasn't Rape. It Was...
The "Sex Crimes" against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange that led to an international Manhunt, and, now, his arrest, have always seemed, if not false, lame. Basically, it seemed as though two Swedish fans that Assange charmed into the sack were mortified to discover that he actually wasn't that into them. But then Interpol launched its Manhunt, rendering Assange a cross-border fugitive. So it seemed the "Sex Crimes" might be more serious than initially thought. But what are they? They're not ...