Pied Piper Julian Assange brooks no dissent in land of WikiLeaks

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This is babble, but interesting in parts.

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Mr Assange previously fell out with two of his key WikiLeaks colleagues. Birgitta Jonsdottir, a political activist in Iceland who worked on the leaked video of a US air strike on civilians in Iraq, broke with Mr Assange when she suggested he should step aside as leader until after the Swedish sex inquiry was resolved.

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When Mr Domscheit-Berg suggested Mr Assange curtail his activities after the sex allegations, he was suspended. He now regards Mr Assange as a "dictator".

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David Leigh, a journalist for The Guardian who has been working on the WikiLeaks material, said: "It's a great shame that more medals aren't being pinned up to the chest of the young soldier Bradley Manning, who actually got the data and is the person who is actually paying the price for it, facing 52 years in prison."

Another Guardian journalist, Nick Davies, who initially persuaded Mr Assange to work with the paper, is understood to have fallen out with him so badly that he decided not to be involved with the embassy cable coverage.

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