Why is assange alive

Assange was granted asylum by Ecuador in August following allegations that he raped and molested two women while he was attending a conference in Sweden, which he has denied. The year-old has so far avoided possible extradition to the Scandinavian country, but Swedish prosecutors were reported to be interviewing him at the embassy today.

Here are four of the most captivating ones:. But these tweets likely do not mean Assange is dead, Gizmodo reported. We take it as a given that spooks can, in the immortal words of Elvis, take care of business in a flash. In the Jason Bourne movies, say the wrong word into your cell phone, and assassins will find you at the train station in minutes. In "Rubicon," if you pay too close attention to crossword puzzles, your train will be "accidentally" derailed. In "Three Days of the Condor," if you ask your bosses the wrong question, a postman with an ice-bullet-shooting machine gun will pay you a visit.

Of course, that's just Hollywood. But if you read left-wing accounts of the intelligence community, two versions dominate. The CIA and similar outfits are either evil and incompetent, or evil and supercompetent. Kennedy and pin it on a Marxist dupe named Lee Harvey Oswald. The US government is beginning a legal appeal to have the publisher and activist extradited over the publication of thousands of classified documents in and In September , at the age of 20, Assange gets his first taste of the long arm of the law when he is caught hacking into the Australian headquarters of Nortel, a Canadian multinational telecommunications corporation.

When the case finally comes to trial, in December , Assange pleads guilty to 25 charges, but escapes jail due to the perceived absence of malicious or mercenary intent.

In December , Assange launches WikiLeaks. The first document posted on the website is a paper signed by Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys of Somalia calling for the execution of government officials by hired hit men. In November , WikiLeaks begins to release what it says are , diplomatic cables acquired from an anonymous source, prompting the US Department of Justice to open an investigation.

The source is discovered to be army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning, who is later convicted under the Espionage Act. In December , Assange is arrested in London after Sweden issues an international arrest warrant over two allegations - one of rape and the other of molestation - by separate women.

He denies the claims. In November , Assange loses his appeal against extradition to Sweden. Decision is another milestone in year fight but focus now shifts to US appeal. Julian Assange making a speech from the balcony of the Ecuadorian embassy in London in The Julian Assange extradition ruling: right result, wrong reason Owen Jones. Read more. Topics Julian Assange WikiLeaks features.