Re: @ Ben ... A Flagrant Rotten Denial of Justice and a Blot in the UKGBNI Landscape
"I'm not sure these is any circumstances that Sweden would hand assange over to the US.
I base this off the fact of a US airman that went awol and illegally entered Sweden and Sweden to this day refuse hand him over."
Sweden does not extradite to the US for 'political crimes'. That includes espionage, going AWOL, etc.
Sweden was the second most common destination after Canada for those dodging the Vietnam draft (after canada because of its proximity) because of this.
In 1992 the *ONLY* CIA officer to defect to the USSR was arrested in Sweden and the US requested extradition. Sweden refused and let him go, because espionage is a 'political crime'. Do note that the President at the Time - Bush Senior - was Vice president at the time of the defection (85) and was a former CIA director. To say Bush had an interest in the case was an understatement.
And Assange knows this. In fact in his press conference to announce he was applying for Swedish residency in the summer of 2010 (just days before the first alleged sexual assault) he specifically mentioned that the inability of the US to extradite him from Sweden for 'political crimes' was a major factor in his decision to move there.
Funny how he conveniently forgot that bit on his website touting his Swedish extradition to the US fantasies...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
