It’s probably not a coincidence that Aftonbladet, the tabloid newspaper that is working with Wikileaks on the Guantanamo files in Sweden, prints that “Assange is a creep” article just a day before the Guantanamo files are released.

Meanwhile, other newsoutlets are, you know, giving us the news. In the BBC Canada article ” Wikileaks: Many at Guantanamo ‘not dangerous’” you’ll find a quick rundown on the files, Bradley Manning and Julian Assange in a bite-sized article.

The Guantanamo Files are here on the Wikileaks server : http://wikileaks.ch/gitmo/

The Tabloid newspaper Aftonbladet 2011-04-24

THE EGOIST Julian Assange puts a lot of money to free himself from allegations of rape – but he doesn’t lift a finger when Bradley Manning, Wikileaks claimed source, is tortured in arrest and is risking lifetime in jail, writes Jan Guillou.

Julian Assange - a little creep without principles

It’s embarrassing clear that Julian Assange, the frontman of Wikileaks, is not a male role model. To say it modestly. If he also is guilty to some kind of rape and sexual molestation, I can not comment. But his ardent supporters, who claim to know he is innocent, don’t know either.
The reason we don’t know, depends on Julian Assange himself, who refuses to come to Sweden for an interrogation. If he was so innocent as he and his followers claims, it would be an easy way to get the suspicions out of the way (and come to Sweden, my notation). Most people suspected of sexual crime in Sweden is actually free, depending on rather high standard of proof. (*)

Assange has launched a campaign against the Swedish legal system. He likens Sweden to Saudi Arabia and he means that innocent men are treated as if they were in an assembly line, and get convicted, because of the iron hard feminists who rule in this country. In addition, he speaks of a conspiracy that involves passing through Sweden on false rape allegations to have him extradited to U.S. There of course he would be tried very hard in retaliation for the disclosures Wikileaks has published.
Also for those who like myself for decades has devoted to criticize shortcomings in the Swedish judicial system seems legal reasoning from Assange and his circle, so absurd that they are not even worth taking seriously. Even more embarrassing is that well-known radical social critics such as John Pilger, Michael Moore and Tariq Ali seems to back up this campaign.

It is true that Wikileaks has published some very shocking revelations. Best known is the video footage showing American soldiers, under cheerful conversation, murdering a dozen civilians in Baghdad in 2007. It’s something so unusual as war crimes recorded by the war criminals themselves. You can understand the fact that the U.S. armed forces will find such a publication highly inappropriate. Or even treasonous.

And now we are really approaching a legal scandal far from Julian Assanges self-absorbed idiot campaign. The U.S. authorities have, since a year, alleged source captured, and expose him to harassment that goes over the limit towards torture. Bradley Manning, 23 years, kept naked in solitary confinement, prevented from sleeping and “inspected” (naked at attention) many times a day. He has not yet been tried, not clear why, but prosecutors have announced that they will be pressing for life imprisonment for some form of treason.

Bradley Manning ought to defend himself by saying that he helped to expose U.S. war crimes and that the high principles of democracy, therefore, excuse his leak of information. The U.S. armed forces shall not be able to conceal their crime to the principals, the American people. Something like that, the defense ought to be posted. Large legal principles against each other, and Bradley Manning is in need of the best lawyers to be found.
In the American legal system you are in dire need of money to defend yourself. This support Wikileaks has, despite promises, not given (given money to Mannings defense, my notation) Instead, Julian Assange stays with three english lawyers who is helping him not to come to Sweden for interrogation.

The story of Julian Assange is a legal scandal of large dimensions. Not because Julian Assange is suspected of sex crimes but that his source of those huge revelations risks life imprisonment and also is tortured during an incomprehensible pending for trial.

The story also contains a political martyr at the same level as Daniel Ellsberg, who in the 1970s, leaked information about the Vietnam War, was tried, got money collected to the first classical legal assistance - and was acquitted.
But the political martyr is certainly not Julian Assange, although he seriously puts it so. The victim is Bradley Manning. Julian Assange risk is at most a financial penalty, according to the allegations. His source, Bradley Manning, author of Assanges hero status, risks life imprisonment.

But that doesn’t seem to worry Assange himself or his cheerleading squad. For them, lawyers for Assange is more important than for Bradley Manning. Quite apart from his conviction in the rape story, one can safely say that Julian Assange is a small disgust without principles. Once again, putting it modestly.

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* This is in my opinion, a remarkable statement from Guillou. He himself, wrote an article in the same paper (Aftonbladet) just a few months ago ( 2010-10-10) about how innocent men gets judged by the Swedish courts. See “Billy butt utsatt för ett justitiemord”

“Hung in silence are most of the men, who are innocent, and sentenced for sexual crime. And they are many. The Chancellor of Justice pointed out in a report from 2006 (“wrong judgements”) a dozen judgements like that. And that was only about men who, against long odds, successfully managed to appeal the sentence and got acquittal.”

Now read Rixsteps acidic retort: Jan Guillou Comes Out of Retirement to Bark

It was discovered only a year or so ago that Jan Guillou had also been a spy for the Soviet Union. Unbelievably enough. He was simultaneously a spy for the Swedish security police and the social democratic party.

Jan Guillou writes occasionally even today, despite his ripe age. He comes out of retirement to answer questions about his recruitment by the KGB or to make a guest appearance in a smear documentary about Julian Assange where he can laugh at those charges against Assange (and the reaction of Assange and his legal team to them). Or where he can say nasty things about People Who Aren’t As Great As Jan Guillou™ such as John Pilger, Michael Moore, and Tariq Ali.

Here’s an interesting detail in it all: The author of the smear article (Jan Guillou), has a daughter (Ann-Linn Guillou), who is a Facebookfriend to the Police inspector Irmeli Krans, (the police who interrogated Sofia W., one of the two women accusing Assange for rape). The other woman, accusing Assange, Anna A. is also a friend of Irmeli Krans.

Small world.

Meanwhile, Peter Bratt, the not-as-famous as Guillou reporter who did all the hard work revealing the IB-affair without receiving any of the credit has posted this article on Newsmill.

Reporter legend: “Wikileaks has saved serious journalism”

It’s worth noting that writers do not get paid to write articles for Newsmill, instead they do it for free when a topic is close to their hearts.

The new hobby in Sweden is for all journalists to propagate the flat out lie that Assange and Wikileaks doesn’t support Bradley Manning, the alleged WIkileaks leaker.

The Bradley Manning Support Network, which expressed frustration last month that it had not received the promised pledge, praised WikiLeaks’ contribution Thursday. ”This donation from WikiLeaks is vital to our efforts to ensure Bradley receives a fair, open trial,” wrote Mike Gogulski, the network’s founder, in a press release.  — Wired - WikiLeaks Contributes $15,000 to Bradley Manning’s Defense

Wikileaks twitter account wears a “Free Bradley” twibbon, and contiously tweets information and resources about how to help Bradley Manning.

Here are a few recent examples:

UN torture investigator blocked access to Manning (interview) http://youtube.com/watch?v=pnqSy_DUwAw — Wikileaks Twitter

Tonight, New York East Village, Theatre 80, 7:30pm: Manning-Assange Resurrection Night http://is.gd/okfVTH — Wikileaks twitter

Useful: Bradley Manning organizing toolkit: http://www.bradleymanning.org/resources/organizing-kit — Wikileaks twitter

And so on. If you follow the Wikileaks twitter account you’ll see that Bradley Manning shows up almost daily.

Assange often brings up Bradley Manning’s plight when speaking at the frontline club, as well as when he is speaking to journalists who insist on asking him sordid details about the sexual crime allegations instead. The spotlight turned away from Bradley Manning is these journalists doing, and not anyone elses!

Here Assange explains how he and Wikileaks have to perform a delicate balancing act when supporting Bradley Manning - remember that if Wikileaks ever says “Yes, Bradley was our source” Manning hangs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fkK6CDIaoM

For another point of view, please read Bradley Manning.org and in particular “Wikileaks, Julian Assange, Bradley Manning, and Revolution Truth” written by Micaela Ward, from revolutiontruth.org

As I searched for more information, I became aware of the case of Pfc Bradley Manning, the accused, alleged, WikiLeaks whistleblower. He was initially charged with military violations and crimes related to the leaking of the Collateral Murder video, then accused of leaking the US Embassy cables, without charges being brought until a mere few weeks ago (Mar 2011), and has been held in solitary confinement for these past ten months, in violation of his Constitutional right to due process. The conditions under which he is being held constitute torture, under international law and precedential common and US law, and my govt is perpetrating this crime against one of its own citizens, to our shame, and against a miltary service member, no less, more to its own shame. Apparently, our Whistleblower Protection Act is not worth the paper it is written upon. We are all Bradley Manning.

The interrogations reveal that the women were blackmailing Assange.

Men då ringde jag honom och frågade, vad fan är det frågan om. Och då säger han att ja, vad heter det, hon vill att jag ska göra ett, ett blodprov. Så men fan gör det då liksom. Vad, vad är grejen. Så, nej men jag, jag kan göra ett blodprov men jag vill inte utpressas till att göra ett blodprov. Ehm… För de säger att de antingen går till polisen, eller, Sofia, att hon antingen går till polisen eller så gör jag ett blodprov”
page 46 Johann Wahlström

Above translated from Johann Wahlströms statement:

“But when I called him and asked, what the hell is going on? And when he says that yes, what is it called, she wants me to do a, a blood test. So? What the hell do it then. What, what is the big deal?  So, he says no, but I, I can do a blood test but I would not be blackmailed into making a blood test. Ehm … For they’re say that they either go to the police, or, Sofia, she either goes to the police or I do a blood test “

“Och så går hon dit och följer med Sofia. Och vi ringer några gånger fram och tillbaka, vi SMS:ar varandra lite om det här. Och jag ringer också och tar kontakt med Julian några gånger, Eh, de vill att Julian ska ta ett HIV-prov, eh, annars så ska de anmäla honom. Det är så de uttrycker det.”
page 55 Donald Boström

Translated fromDonald Boströms interrogation:

“And so she goes there (to the police) and accompanies Sofia. And we are calling a few times back and forth, we text each other a bit about it here. And I also call and make contact with Julian a few times, uh, they want Julian to take an HIV test, uh, otherwise they will report him to the police. That’s how they express it.”

Two witnesses are clearly stating that the women were threatening Assange with the police if they didn’t get what they want. Textbook blackmail.