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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/72815
Fortunately there was a big discussion over at hackernews: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27710075 otherwise I probably wouldn’t have caught this.
This part was also interesting:
But it turned out that the US officers did not have permission from the Icelandic government to operate in the country and Ögmundur Jónasson, then Iceland’s minister of interior, ordered them to leave. Meanwhile, the FBI were allegedly complicit in DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks on the websites of several Iceland government institutions. The FBI had then approached Icelandic authorities, promising to assist them in preventing any future such attacks. In reality, the approach was a ruse to fool Iceland into cooperation in an attempt to entrap Assange.
So, a possible false-flag DDoS attack by the FBI to worm its way back into Iceland after getting kicked out. It’s horrifying but fascinating to see imperialism at work.
Absolutely, I’d also urge everyone to read the original article from Stundin: https://stundin.is/grein/13627/key-witness-in-assange-case-admits-to-lies-in-indictment/ It is quite detailed as well as horrifying, regarding all the things the FBI did/let happen just to take Julian Assange down.