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Assange Says Harrods Assisting Metro Police in 'Round-the-Clock Vigil'

Posted by timothy on from the now-it-costs-us-infinity-pounds dept.

The Daily Mail reports that Julian Assange seems to have yet another foe (or at least friend of a foe) watching persistently while he stays put in the Ecuadorean embassy in London: Harrod's Department Store. The Metro Police, according to Assange, have developed a relationship with the store, and are using that relationship to facilitate their full-time observation of his roosting place in the embassy. When the founder of Wikileaks says, "We have obtained documents from Harrods [saying that] police have people stationed 24 hours a day in some of the opposing buildings Harrods controls," it seems likely that those documents actually exist.

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  1. What is UNUSUAL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ..is the effort they spend for Jesus Assange. They must be really scared of the truth.

  2. Re:Yes? And? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Except they aren't trying to get him there for a trial, they are trying to get him there for QUESTIONING, which they very easily could do over the phone, skype or send a person to him to question him, which they have done for others in the past. They just refuse to do it for him and insist he come where he can be arrested and sent elsewhere.

    How your post got modded as insightful when it isn't is pretty insightful in itself as to how misinformed people can be.

    And yes, they can agree not to extradite him to the US should they attempt to do so. Something they refused to do. The main thing Assange is guilty of at this point is pissing off the US leaders by airing their dirty laundry as even the girls he is accused of raping had dropped it and said they didn't want him charged and it seems very likely that they were trumped up charges just to get him there to begin with.