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Assange's lawyer, Mark Stephens, says that he Julian will meet with British police, concerning the rape charges that he is facing in Sweden.
In other news concerning Assange and WikiLeaks:
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In one of its most explosive leaks of US secrets so far, WikiLeaks on Monday divulged a list of key infrastructure sites around the world that, if attacked by terrorists, could critically harm US security.
The website released a State Department cable from February 2009 asking US missions to update a list of infrastructure and key resources whose loss "could critically impact" the country's public health, economic life and national security.
The list detailed undersea cables, key communications, ports, mineral resources and firms of strategic importance in countries ranging from Britain to New Zealand, via Africa, the Middle East and China.
Also listed were European manufacturers of vaccines for smallpox and rabies, an Italian maker of treatment for snake-bite venom, and a German company making treatment for plutonium poisoning.
In addition to all of these things, WikiLeaks is having difficulty staying online. They have been dropped from various servers and pressure from all around is growing to remove them completely. Of course, I'm not sure how they will completely get rid of them, since there are a growing number of mirror sites that are out there.
"I will underscore that this theft of US government information and its publication without regard for the consequences is deeply distressing," Clinton told reporters.
"The illegal publication of classified information poses real concerns and even potential damage to our friends and partners" worldwide, she warned.
Among its latest revelations:
-- the US has faced an uphill battle in trying to prevent arms from reaching the likes of Iran, Syria and North Korea. In one cable, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is reprimanded for supplying sophisticated weapons to the Shiite militant group Hezbollah one week after providing assurances he would not;
-- European Union President Herman Van Rompuy told a US ambassador that Europe no longer believed in Afghanistan and that 2010 may be the last chance for success;
-- France and the United States have been cooperating more closely for a year in the fight against an Al-Qaeda unit in north Africa.
Of course, we all know that he has recently threatened he will release more damaging information, if the U.S. continues to cave in on him.
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