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In reply to the discussion: ‘Assange won’t come’: Swedish MPs urge end to whistleblower case [View all]struggle4progress
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It is difficult to stay completely abreast of his paranoid-sounding rants, but he has repeatedly said he will not leave the embassy even if Sweden drops all charges against him
Perhaps the fact, that St Julian has managed to convert a story of several women, unhappy with how he treated them during a few one-night stands, into an elaborate international conspiracy theory, involving CIA honey-traps and sadistic radical Swedish feminists eager to have him tortured and killed on the other side of the Atlantic, with Quito's London embassy playing the role of St Julian'st Hole-in-the-Wall Last Stand safehouse, convinces him that this silly strategy is a good idea
But Ecuador will eventually tire of this. They've already sacked on ambassador to the UK for failure to "solve" this problem. And the bogus "safe-passage" document for Snowden, issuing out of Quito's LOndon embassy last year, didn't endear Assange to Ecuador's president