It really is one of most peculiar things I’ve seen of late.  One moment, Julian Assange is a suspect for rape and molestation charges, “arrested in abstentia” by Swedish authorities, because they don’t know where he is.  The next day, the arrest warrant is revoked for lack of evidence.

So what’s going on here?  Well, over the course of the last couple days, I’ve considered three theories:

• It’s one heck of promotion campaign by Assange, who plans to release the last 15,000 Afghanistan documents Wikileaks has in its possession.
• It’s a smear campaign put on by the U.S. government in hopes of rallying up ill will toward Assange, possibly for the same reason as above.
• It’s neither, and somebody was looking for attention.
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Today was a big day in the city where I study American Studies and Languages and Cultures of the Middle East, Groningen: Dutch Queen Beatrix and Swedish King Carl XVI and his wife Queen Silvia came over for a visit to the city’s (and mine) university.| MORE ›