Small addition: you can't kill him because of this: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/07/wikileaks-insurance-file/ http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/07/

Small addition: you can't kill him because of this: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/07/wikileaks-insurance-file/ http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/07/wikileaks-insurance... But anything that damages the man that can not be directly traced back to the source will do fine. In that case, the obvious choices are either possession of child porn or rape. And the first would be hard to pull off with a paranoid tech-savvy guy. Which leaves accusing him of rape, which is the perfect crime to frame someone with, since you can take it all the way to court without a shred of physical evidence. None of this excludes the possibility that he actually did it, but it is the perfect scenario for a frame-job. Don't think it will come that far though. I would put my money on the following scenario: 1) Assange turns himself in. 2) He is led away in front of the cameras in an unnecessarily humiliating and public way, making him look like a criminal, which is a very powerful image. 3) The victim mysteriously disappears, making sure there will always be lingering doubts. Damage done, operation successful. Even if it won't stop Assange, it will scare the crap out of anyone thinking of helping him.