I think this has been covered on these forums before; as an Australian citizen the UK-USA extradition agreement can't be applied to him, so it's actually practically impossible for the USA to get him from blighty (extraordinary rendition remains an option, of course). Sweden has no such protection. That being said, any attempt by the USA to try and get him from Sweden would kind of validate what he's been saying all along, and would be a pretty bad PR move on their part. However I doubt that would be of any comfort to Assange at that point.
Personally I welcome the UN decision that his current confinement is arbitrary. Hopefully they will tell the Ecuadorean government to release Assange straight away so that he can go about his much-delayed business with the UK and Swedish legal systems.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
