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> Remember this all started with the leak of the "Collateral murder" video. That's when the Interpol notice went out, and he had to seek asylum at the embassy.
by matt4077 8y ago
> Remember this all started with the leak of the "Collateral murder" video. That's when the Interpol notice went out, and he had to seek asylum at the embassy.
Collateral Murder was published in April, 2010. The warrant came in November of that year, seven months later.
Yes, sure, it possibly takes that long to organise a conspiracy, especially if you have to recruit a Swedish feminist student into the CIA and also get at multiple prosecutors in one of the least corrupt countries in the world. But the connection still seems tenuous.
- throwaway_m73 8y agoDon't know what you're talking about with the CIA. More likely they just looked up any previous court cases in every previous place he lived, couldn't find anything open but a juicy closed case that they could ask re-opened as a favor. That's not so strange. Considering that they closed the investigation on the grounds that they couldn't reach him, but refused to question him in london, it seems plausible the whole thing was just a play to get him on their soil.