Glass
30th August 2010, 08:29 AM
Police statements made by the women involved in the sex scandal engulfing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange raise questions over Assange's claims that the charges against him were a Pentagon-initiated smear campaign.
Assange's statements that he was warned to expect the smears by "Australian intelligence" have also been called into question by Australian intelligence agencies.
Meanwhile, Assange's 20-year-old estranged son, Daniel, appears to have queried his dad's claims about the alleged "dirty tricks" campaign, and wrote in a Facebook posting that he "does have a way of making a lot of female enemies", the New York Post reported.
Earlier this month, Assange, from Melbourne, was facing charges of rape and molestation over a recent trip to Stockholm, Sweden. The rape charges have since been dropped by Swedish prosecutors but the molestation accusation is still outstanding.
British newspaper the Daily Mail has obtained a copy of the police statements made by the two women at the centre of the claims. These indicate that Assange had consensual sex with the women but was reported to police after he refused to use a condom or, later, take an STD test.
One, Anna Ardin, who helped bring Assange to Sweden for a speaking engagement, allegedly let Assange stay in her one-bedroom flat in Stockholm. They went out to dinner and, according to a "police source" quoted in the Daily Mail, "when they got back they had sexual relations, but there was a problem with the condom - it had split".
"She seemed to think that he had done this deliberately but he insisted that it was an accident."
Ardin has told a Swedish newspaper that Assange had "a twisted attitude towards women and a problem with taking 'no' for an answer". She denied the complaints were orchestrated by the Pentagon.
The other woman, described only as Woman B, met Assange the next day at the conference organised by Ardin. She had become obsessed with him following a litany of online news reports on Assange's leaking of thousands of confidential documents pertaining to the war in Afghanistan.
According to her police statement, the woman was later invited out for lunch with Assange and his entourage. She said she asked Assange if the food he was eating - cheese served on Swedish crispbread - was good and he began to feed her.
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She said in her statement that he spent the 45-minute journey to her home tweeting and texting on his mobile phone and reading stories about himself. She complained that "he paid more attention to the computer than to me
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The pair ate breakfast together the next morning, the police statement said, and parted amicably soon after. He allegedly told the woman he would call her but did not and didn't answer her calls.
Woman B then called Ardin and the pair realised they had both been victims of Assange's charm. They feared STDs and pregnancy and after Assange allegedly refused to take an STD test, the women went to police.
Full article...... (http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/wikileaks-sex-scandal-deepens-as-estranged-son-enters-the-fray-20100830-143ao.html)
let the intergoogletron erupt. This seems like the work of.....the usual suspects. Character assasinations abound. STD's, pregnancy. Not returning phone calls? I'm interested to know the time frames.... was it 15 or 20 minutes before she realised he was not going to call? Sounds like bitter groupies to me..... the morning after regret perhaps.
Assange's statements that he was warned to expect the smears by "Australian intelligence" have also been called into question by Australian intelligence agencies.
Meanwhile, Assange's 20-year-old estranged son, Daniel, appears to have queried his dad's claims about the alleged "dirty tricks" campaign, and wrote in a Facebook posting that he "does have a way of making a lot of female enemies", the New York Post reported.
Earlier this month, Assange, from Melbourne, was facing charges of rape and molestation over a recent trip to Stockholm, Sweden. The rape charges have since been dropped by Swedish prosecutors but the molestation accusation is still outstanding.
British newspaper the Daily Mail has obtained a copy of the police statements made by the two women at the centre of the claims. These indicate that Assange had consensual sex with the women but was reported to police after he refused to use a condom or, later, take an STD test.
One, Anna Ardin, who helped bring Assange to Sweden for a speaking engagement, allegedly let Assange stay in her one-bedroom flat in Stockholm. They went out to dinner and, according to a "police source" quoted in the Daily Mail, "when they got back they had sexual relations, but there was a problem with the condom - it had split".
"She seemed to think that he had done this deliberately but he insisted that it was an accident."
Ardin has told a Swedish newspaper that Assange had "a twisted attitude towards women and a problem with taking 'no' for an answer". She denied the complaints were orchestrated by the Pentagon.
The other woman, described only as Woman B, met Assange the next day at the conference organised by Ardin. She had become obsessed with him following a litany of online news reports on Assange's leaking of thousands of confidential documents pertaining to the war in Afghanistan.
According to her police statement, the woman was later invited out for lunch with Assange and his entourage. She said she asked Assange if the food he was eating - cheese served on Swedish crispbread - was good and he began to feed her.
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She said in her statement that he spent the 45-minute journey to her home tweeting and texting on his mobile phone and reading stories about himself. She complained that "he paid more attention to the computer than to me
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The pair ate breakfast together the next morning, the police statement said, and parted amicably soon after. He allegedly told the woman he would call her but did not and didn't answer her calls.
Woman B then called Ardin and the pair realised they had both been victims of Assange's charm. They feared STDs and pregnancy and after Assange allegedly refused to take an STD test, the women went to police.
Full article...... (http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/wikileaks-sex-scandal-deepens-as-estranged-son-enters-the-fray-20100830-143ao.html)
let the intergoogletron erupt. This seems like the work of.....the usual suspects. Character assasinations abound. STD's, pregnancy. Not returning phone calls? I'm interested to know the time frames.... was it 15 or 20 minutes before she realised he was not going to call? Sounds like bitter groupies to me..... the morning after regret perhaps.