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New Zealand Police Try to Justify Paramilitary Raid on Kim Dotcom
A New Zealand court is looking into the paramilitary raid on filesharing kingpin Kim Dotcom’s mansion in January, having already found that the warrant justifying it was illegal.
Dotcom’s mansion was raided at dawn by helicopter, which dropped off four heavily armed agents to launch the assault. They were followed by even more agents and dog handlers. The raid on the founder of Megaupload was coordinated, the government admits, with help from the FBI.
Dotcom and fellow executives face criminal copyright charges in the U.S.
Oddly, though the agents carried semi-automatic assault rifles, agents didn’t wear full-body armor, as they weren’t actually afraid of Dotcom fighting back.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/08/kim-dotcom-raid/