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Re:Sweden drops Julian Assange rape investigation by mootothemax on Friday May 19, 2017 @05:43AM (#14374096)
>I think you're being a tad literal there. The last case I remember was Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr who was kidnapped in Italy and brought to Egypt by the CIA in 2005. Italy's streets are not less intrinsically sacred than England's.

I'm being literal on purpose.

Look at the other replies to me; everyone talks about the CIA, yourself included, and ignores the fact that Italy was working hand-in-hand with the CIA:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Omar_case

That's very different, and it remains absolutely disgusting nonetheless.

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Re:Sweden drops Julian Assange rape investigation by scandox on Friday May 19, 2017 @05:50AM (#14374126)
Ok, so is it your contention that the UK would not co-operate in similar fashion? And, if so, why? Genuine sense of political autonomy or PR?
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Re:Sweden drops Julian Assange rape investigation by mootothemax on Friday May 19, 2017 @05:53AM (#14374140)
> Ok, so is it your contention that the UK would not co-operate in similar fashion? And, if so, why? Genuine sense of political autonomy or PR?

My contention is that the US would not kidnap him from London's streets.

Word choice is important; I'm sick to the back teeth of hyperbole backed up with "wouldn't be the first time."

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Re:Sweden drops Julian Assange rape investigation by ionised on Friday May 19, 2017 @06:54AM (#14374398)
Is it hyperbole when it has actually happened before?

Surely a precedent means the suggestion is not hyperbolic?

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Re:Sweden drops Julian Assange rape investigation by scandox on Friday May 19, 2017 @06:06AM (#14374196)
I don't know why you're being downvoted. Seems reasonable to me even if I don't agree.
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Re:Sweden drops Julian Assange rape investigation by angus-prune on Friday May 19, 2017 @08:26AM (#14374910)
There was a massive scandal over UK complicity in US extraordinary rendition over here a few years ago.

The UK government was roundly condemned and the practice stopped (including refueling US rendition flights from elsewhere).

This will not happen to Assange.

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