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Australia dismisses Assange fears as 'fantasy'
Australia dismisses Assange fears as 'fantasy'Published: 26 Feb 2013 at 07.43
... Carr told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation late Monday that Assange, an Australian citizen, would be safer in Sweden than Britain.
"The Swedes say 'it is our policy... that we never extradite someone on a matter to related to military or intelligence', Carr told ABC television ...
"To suggest that the Swedes are after him as a CIA conspiracy to get him to Stockholm and allowing him to be bundled off to Langley, Virginia (CIA headquarters) is sheer fantasy," Carr said.
"If the Swedes had him in Stockholm it would be even more hard for the US to extradite, if that's what they want to do, than he's been for the last two years in the United Kingdom" ...
"The Swedes say 'it is our policy... that we never extradite someone on a matter to related to military or intelligence', Carr told ABC television ...
"To suggest that the Swedes are after him as a CIA conspiracy to get him to Stockholm and allowing him to be bundled off to Langley, Virginia (CIA headquarters) is sheer fantasy," Carr said.
"If the Swedes had him in Stockholm it would be even more hard for the US to extradite, if that's what they want to do, than he's been for the last two years in the United Kingdom" ...