Wikileaks founder Julian Assange arrested in London

A detail from the Interpol website showing the appeal for the arrest of the editor-in-chief of the Wikileaks whistleblowing website, Julian Assange on December 6, 2010. Assange who has spearheaded the release of thousands of sensitive diplomatic cables through Wikileaks is wanted in Sweden on rape charges against two women, and is currently in hiding. (Photo by Getty Images)

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December 07, 2010 (KATAKAMI/ BBC) --- The founder of the whistle-blowing website Wikileaks, Julian Assange, has been arrested by the Metropolitan Police.

The 39-year-old Australian denies allegations he sexually assaulted two women in Sweden.
Scotland Yard said Mr Assange was arrested on a European Arrest Warrant by appointment at a London police station at 0930 GMT.

He is due to appear at City of Westminster Magistrates' Court later.

Mr Assange is accused by the Swedish authorities of one count of unlawful coercion, two counts of sexual molestation and one count of rape, all alleged to have been committed in August 2010.  (*)

WikiLeaks release of Pentagon's secret war files may jeopardize Iraq security

WikiLeaks.org founder Julian Assange

October 24, 2010 (KATAKAMI / RIA NOVOSTI) --- The Pentagon's secret Iraq war reports released by the WikiLeaks website and evidencing the Iraqi authorities' role in tortures and civilian deaths may have serious consequences for security in Iraq, an Iraqi Interior Ministry source said on Sunday.

"The release of these documents is undermining people's trust in security forces. This trust is ever more diminishing, especially in areas populated by Sunnis," the source who declined to give his name told RIA Novosti, adding that the release of the Pentagon's classified files might jeopardize the process of reconciliation between Iraqi communities.

Was the U.S. military operation in Iraq a success?

 

WikiLeaks released late on Friday 391,832 secret reports called the Iraq War Logs that "document the war and occupation in Iraq, from 1st January 2004 to 31st December 2009 (except for the months of May 2004 and March 2009) as told by soldiers in the United States Army."

The reports detail at least 109,000 deaths in the Iraq war, including over 66,000 civilian deaths, more than the United States has previously acknowledged, and also describe the cases of torture and other abuses by Iraqi and coalition forces.

"The majority of the deaths (66,000, over 60%) of these are civilian deaths. That is 31 civilians dying every day during the six-year period," WikiLeaks said in a statement.

The Pentagon has repeatedly insisted that the release of secret documents threatens the lives of U.S. troops.


BAGHDAD, October 24 (RIA Novosti)