Britain Threatens Ecuador for Assange Asylum,Magna Carta?

Julian Assange, from Wikileaks, at the SKUP conference for investigative journalism, Norway, March 2010 (see http://www.skup.no/Info_in_Englishhttp://www.skup.no/Konferansen_2010/Programmet) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Now Ecuador is reported to have agreed to grant Asylum for Julius Assange of Wikileaks.

And Britain has threatened to punish Ecuador ,including sanctions.

It is time Britain has stopped hanging on to the coat tails of the US and start acting independently as a Nation.

The grouse of the US against Assange is that he has exposed the US.

The trumped-up charge of rape is silly.

Is this the Britain who gave The Magna Carta to the World?

Where is France in this issue , a nation that gave Liberte,Egalite to the World?

Story:

Ecuador has granted asylum to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange two months after he took refuge in its London embassy while fighting extradition from the UK.

It said there were fears Mr Assange’s human rights might be violated.

Foreign minister Ricardo Patino accused the UK of making an “open threat” to enter its embassy to arrest him.

Mr Assange took refuge at the embassy in June to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he faces questioning over assault and rape claims, which he denies.

The Foreign Office said the decision on Mr Assange’s application for political asylum would not affect the UK’s legal obligation to extradite him to Sweden.

It tweeted: “We remain committed to a negotiated solution that allows us to carry out our obligations under the Extradition Act.”

Political asylum is not available to anyone facing a serious non-political crime – such as the allegations levelled against Mr Assange.

But does his new status mean he can now leave his Swedish problems behind? No. Asylum does not equal immunity from prosecution – and Julian Assange needs safe passage through UK territory that he won’t get.

Mr Assange knows he can’t leave without risking arrest by officers waiting outside. The police can’t enter the embassy unless the government revokes its status.

Embassy vehicles are protected by law from police searches – but how could he get into an Ecuadorian car without being apprehended? And what happens after he’s in the car? At some point he will have to get out again. Stranger things have happened.

In 1984 there was an attempt to smuggle a Nigerian man from the UK in a so-called “diplomatic bag” protected from inspection. The bag was in fact a large crate – and customs officers successfully intercepted it at the airport.

The UK government will still seek to arrest him and it will not grant him safe passage. If he steps out, he will be arrested.

Announcing Ecuador’s decision, Mr Patino said the country believed Mr Assange’s fears of political persecution were “legitimate”.

He said the country was being loyal to its tradition of protecting those who were vulnerable.

“We trust that our friendship with the United Kingdom will remain intact,” he added.

The announcement was watched live by Mr Assange and embassy staff in a link to a press conference from Quito.

Outside Ecuador’s embassy in London, the BBC’s James Robbins said news was slowly spreading through Mr Assange’s assembled supporters and they were delighted.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19281492

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Pakistan Knew where Osama was, Confirms Wikileaks Stratfor.

Pervez Musharaff knew where Osama Bin Laden was hiding in Pakistan sp also a host of others in the Military establishment and the ISI.

Wiki Leaks had confirmed this earlier( read my earlier Blogs)

Now this information is authenticated by Stratfor as well.

Well, all of know what Pakistan is.

We can do nothing but to grin and bear it.

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Emails from the security think tank Stratfor, released by WikiLeaks on Monday, suggest that up to 12 Pakistani intelligence and army officials were aware of Bin Laden’s presence in the Pakistani city.

The emails released do not identify the agents, but show that were mid- to senior level officials in the Pakistani military and intelligence service ISI.

From the Stratfor emails:

On 5/13/2011 2:27 PM, burton@stratfor.com wrote:

Same response as before:
Mid to senior level ISI and Pak Mil with one retired Pak Mil
General that had knowledge of the OBL arrangements and safe
house.

Names unk to me and not provided.

Specific ranks unk to me and not provided.

But, I get a very clear sense we (US intel) know names and
ranks.

Osama Bin Laden was killed on May 1, 2011, in a compound in the Pakistani garrison city of Abbottabad. Pakistan denies that the country’s officials and military were aware of the Al Qaeda leader’s whereabouts, according to the BBC.

“There has been intense suspicion over how much Pakistani authorities knew of Osama bin Laden’s whereabouts but never any definitive proof – or at least none that has been made public,” Gordon Corera, security correspondent for BBC, explains. “There’s no smoking gun, as one Western intelligence official told me.”

Commenting on the WikiLeaks release, spokesman for the Pakistan army Athar Abbas told news channel Al-Arabiya that the allegations were untrue. “They are nonsense and not credible,” he reportedly said.

According to the Christian Science Monitor, it is difficult to determine the trustworthiness of the information in the email. “With some observers speculating that, because Stratfor itself did not publish the data, they may have not deemed the intelligence report authentic,” the Monitor writes.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/29/wikileaks-stratfor-emails_n_1307547.html

Online Survey ON WikiLeaks .

 

I received a communication to my site as below.

I took the Survey and find it to be relevant.

Those interested may do so.

Communication.

Am writing a thesis on Public Trust in WikiLeaks, the Media and the Government and need to know what your opinions are. The online survey is multiple choice and will take approximately 10 minutes to complete. Please follow the link: http://www.kwiksurveys.com/?s=ILLLML_9669e09d Please encourage others to do the survey also.

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Six Month Banking Blockade of WikiLeaks.

Those who talk of Freedom must respect it.

No doubt some of the information leaked by WikiLeaks embarrassed every one , like the one on what US thinks of other countries in private.

You have prosecuted Assange on a charge which every one thinks is funny.

This banking Blockade is going to the extreme.

Has the blockade helped?

WikiLeaks releases advertisement coinciding with the six month unlawful banking blockage against it

Censorship, like everything else in the West, has been privatized.

For six months now, five major US financial institutions, VISA, MasterCard, PayPal, Western Union and the Bank of America have tried to economically strangle WikiLeaks as a result of political pressure from Washington. The attack has blocked over 90% of the non-profit organization’s donations, costing some $15M in lost revenue. The attack is entirely outside of any due process or rule of law. In fact, in the only formal review to occur, the US Secretary of the Treasury, Timothy C. Geithner found, on January 12, that there were no lawful grounds to add WikiLeaks to a financial blockade.

http://wikileaks.org/Banking-Blockade.html

Sample of Wikileak .

Pakistan-’An Army in Search of A Country’-Wiki Leaks.

Image via Wikipedia

Look at Pakistan‘s turbulent  history from Ayub Khan.

A nation formed on the very mistaken notion of Religion, that too because its founder could not the spoils of Power in India is being tossed from Dictatorships to Dictatorships, with Civilian Government being thrown in the middle as a garnish to ensure that Pakistan gets Foreign aid.

The moment the Dictator finds the going rough in the country, the time-tested recipe is going to war with India and loss of face and in a case loss of portions of the country as well.

The tailor-made solution then is to usher in a puppet Regime , which,when found to breaking g the reins of the Army,is dethroned and another military Regime is on.

Foreign powers are game to this for it is to their advantage to have an unstable Pakistan,considering its strategic location and their desire to check mate China by playing India against Pakistan /Pakistan vs India.

Unfortunately for them India happens to be a Democracy and India plays the Foreign powers game adeptly by pitting one against another.

This Pakistan  is unable to do because of its internal contradictions and fundamentalism and general lawless in governance.

No surprises Pakistan’s friends and foes alike deride Pakistan in private.

Samples.

Pakistan remains “an army in search of a country,” according to French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s Diplomatic Adviser. ..

Levitte also asserted that “the Pakistani army is well regarded by the Pakistani people when not in power, but that it fails when in power.”..

Day also inquired about US perspective on Nawaz Sharif “whom he described as ‘potentially less venal’ than other Pakistani leaders.” Previously published cables have already revealed what opinion Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed and Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz held of President Zardari and Mr. Sharif…..

Director General, Defence and Intelligence of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office of the British government expresses satisfaction that China had “dumped” Pakistan in the Conference on Disarmament which in her opinion was a “good sign.”….

a senior Saudi intelligence official is quoted as telling a US official that “the SAG [Saudi Arabian government] viewed the Afghan Taliban as largely under the control of Pakistan” and that “the Afghan Taliban needed support to be able to become more independent of Pakistan.”…

http://www.dawn.com/2011/05/28/what-friends-say-about-pakistan-in-private.html