US denies 'wild' Assange claims of witch-hunt

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53. You might want to read some the responses to Green's article

This one specifically:

"While this article makes some excellent points, there is one counter-point missing. The article suggests that Sweden is no more likely to hand Assange over to the USA than the UK is, or to allow him to be kidnapped.

This, I suggest, is incorrect. While the UK is complicit in the torture of its nine of its citizens, of individuals who had legal residency in the UK, who ended up in Guantanamo, it did not allow a CIA "snatch team" to kidnap them and whisk them to a secret torture prison. But Sweden did allow this. Maybe Swedish security officials were hoodwinked, Maybe Swedish politicians felt the US made them look like fools. Maybe the Swedish public felt betrayed, but the fact remains Sweden has already failed to protect human rights from US snatch teams.

Sweden has already failed. The UK, on the other hand, has protected Mr Assange, and the UK government could not allow a snatch team to kidnap him now, even if they wanted to. For this reason he is safer from being kidnapped in the UK than he would be in Sweden".