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   Raw Story / By Daniel Tencer   
      
   Report: Assange's Swedish Sex Crimes Accuser Flees to Middle East, May   
   Not Be Cooperating with Police   
      
   An Australian news site reports that Anna Ardin has moved to the   
   Palestinian territories to work for a peace organization.   
   December 10, 2010   
      
   One of the two Swedish women who have filed sex complaints against the   
   founder of WikiLeaks has reportedly left Sweden and may no longer be   
   cooperating with the criminal investigation.   
      
   According to a report at Australian news site Crikey.com, Anna Ardin has   
   moved to the Palestinian territories to volunteer with a Christian group   
   working to reconcile Arabs and Israelis.   
      
   Crikey.com reports:   
      
       One source from Ardin’s old university of Uppsala reported rumors   
   that she had stopped co-operating with the prosecution service several   
   weeks ago, and that this was part of the reason for the long delay in   
   proceeding with charges — and what still appears to be an absence of   
   charges.   
      
       Ardin's blog shows that she has recently posted from the Palestinian   
   territories. Her most recent blog posts make no mention of WikiLeaks or   
   its founder, Julian Assange.   
      
   Some of Ardin's most recent Tweets suggest sympathy for WikiLeaks.   
      
   "MasterCard, Visa and PayPal -- belt them now!" Ardin urged in a Tweet   
   Wednesday, evidently referring to the cyber-attacks launched on those   
   institutions after they severed their relationships with WikiLeaks.   
      
   In a more recent Tweet, she complained of the media reports digging into   
   her background.   
      
   "CIA agent, rabid feminist / Muslim lover, a Christian fundamentalist,   
   flat & fatally in love with a man, can you even be all [these things all]   
   the time?" she Tweeted in Swedish.   
      
   Some news reports have linked Ardin to the CIA, based on her contact with   
   anti-Castro groups in Cuba. Ardin wrote her master's thesis on these   
   groups, while located in Havana and Miami. But others have questioned the   
   validity of the connection.   
      
   Crikey.com notes that Ardin, an avowed feminist, has taken criticism from   
   many prominent feminists, who, perhaps surprisingly, appear to have sided   
   against the female accuser and with the male accused.   
      
   "Rape is being used in the Assange prosecution in the same way that   
   women’s freedom was used to invade Afghanistan. Wake up!" Tweeted Naomi   
   Klein.   
      
   Feminist activist Naomi Wolf penned an article sarcastically   
   congratulating Interpol for its "commitment to engaging in global   
   manhunts to arrest and prosecute men who behave like narcissistic jerks   
   to women they are dating."   
      
   SWEDEN WITHHOLDING DOCUMENTATION ON ASSANGE PROBE   
      
   Assange's lawyer, renowned British advocate Mark Stephens, told CBS News   
   Thursday that prosecutor Marianne Ny is staging a "show trial," in   
   reference to the politically motivated prosecutions of the Stalin-era   
   Soviet Union.   
      
   Stephens said not only have formal charges not been filed against Assange,   
   but the prosecution has failed to provide him with any documentation   
   relating to the investigation. As a result, he says it's impossible for   
   him to begin crafting a defense.   
      
   Stephens also said he believed recent news reports that Sweden is holding   
   talks with the United States on whether Assange can be extradited to face   
   charges under US law.   
      
   It's unclear what US laws Assange could have broken with his release of   
   US State Department cables, as he is not a US citizen and therefore not   
   bound by US treason laws, and his activites with WikiLeaks were carried   
   out outside the US.   
      
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