WikiLeaks arrest looms as site fights to stay online
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LONDON — WikiLeaks faced growing pressure Friday as its founder Julian Assange dealt with a new arrest warrant and death threats, while the Web site hopped around the globe trying to evade efforts to shut it down.
As the fallout grew from its release of secret US diplomatic cables, the whistle-blower site found new domain names in a string of European countries after its original wikileaks.org address was shut down by an American provider.
The elusive Assange, who is believed to be in hiding in Britain, faced fresh trouble as Swedish prosecutors sent out a new international arrest warrant for the 39-year-old Australian over sex assault allegations.
He briefly broke cover Friday in an online forum with readers on The Guardian newspaper to say that if anything happened to him or WikiLeaks then 100,000 encrypted copies of the cables would automatically be released.
“The threats against our lives are a matter of public record. However, we are taking the appropriate precautions to the degree that we are able when dealing with a superpower,” Assange wrote..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20101205com7.html
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