Wikileaks' Assange in UK, police know where: report

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Reuters:

Wikileaks website founder Julian Assange is in Britain and police know his whereabouts but have refrained so far from acting on an international warrant for his arrest, a British newspaper said on Thursday.

The 39-year-old Australian, who founded the whistle-blowing website that has disclosed a trove of secret U.S. diplomatic cables, supplied British police with contact details upon his arrival in October, The Independent said.

The newspaper cited police sources who said they knew where Assange was staying and had his telephone number. It added that it was believed he was in southeast England.

The international police agency Interpol this week issued a "red notice" to assist in the arrest of Assange, who is wanted in Sweden on suspicion of sexual crimes, but Britain's Serious Organized Crime Agency (Soca) so far has refused to authorize this, the paper said.

Citing unnamed sources, the Independent said Soca needed clarifications about the European Arrest Warrant issued by Swedish prosecutors but it described the delay as technical.

[Casino67]

From Twitter

 

@str8thinker: the only way they are going to catch the wikileaks guy is if he downloads some songs illegally

[pollyannaish]

From Twitter

 

@str8thinker: the only way they are going to catch the wikileaks guy is if he downloads some songs illegally

 

 

 

Yeah! Let's rickroll him.

[Casino67]

From Twitter

 

@str8thinker: the only way they are going to catch the wikileaks guy is if he downloads some songs illegally

 

 

 

Yeah! Let's rickroll him.

 

[pollyannaish]

You know, Rick used to look much older to me.