WikiLeaks implies embassy attacks were payback for Assange

WikiLeaks has sparked outrage after suggesting the Libyan embassy was attacked because the US had backed Britain’s threat to storm the Ecuadorian embassy in London and remove Julian Assange.

The website issued a tweet suggesting that America had given ‘tacit approval’ to the threats from the Foreign Office. At the time the [British Foreign & Commonwealth Office] was warned that if they removed Assange it would jeopardise its own diplomatic rights in other countries. …

The whistleblowers made the controversial remark on Twitter following the death of the US ambassador to Libya in protests this week.

About these ads

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out / Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out / Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out / Change )

Connecting to %s