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Ecuador has granted citizenship to Julian Assange as its government attempts to find creative ways of getting Assange out of the Ecuadorean embassy in London:
Ecuador says it has granted citizenship to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, as officials try to find a way for him to leave the Ecuadorean embassy in London without risking legal action.
Assange, who is Australian, first sought refuge at the embassy more than five years ago to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he faced an investigation over rape allegations. He was granted asylum, and has been holed up in the embassy ever since.
The original case against him has been dropped, but Assange remains inside the embassy. "He is still subject to arrest in Britain for jumping bail," The Associated Press notes. "He also fears a possible U.S. extradition request based on his leaking of classified State Department documents."
"Earlier this week, Ecuador said the situation was unsustainable and requested diplomatic status for Assange in hopes of springing him," NPR's Frank Langfitt reports from London. "A British government spokesman responded: 'Ecuador knows that the way to resolve this issue is for Julian Assange to leave the embassy to face justice.'"
Also at The Guardian.
(Score: 5, Informative) by Thexalon on Sunday January 14 2018, @12:23AM
Specifically, that invasion put most of the surviving military personnel in Iraq out of work. Who then proceeded across the border into Syria and into the waiting arms of ISIS. Which might be the reason ISIS was as successful militarily as they were - they had people who knew what they were doing, as opposed to the usual incompetence seen from terrorist groups trying to do larger-scale operations. It would not be unreasonable to see the ISIS invasion of Iraq as an attempted reconquest by the people who had been beaten by the US.
The good news now is that ISIS is pretty close to finished as an actual military threat: They've lost most of their former territory in both Iraq and Syria, and basically consist of a few pockets in places where the government control is lacking.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.