Farber writes: "Two Swedish women - Anna Ardin and Sofia Wilen - had sex
with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in Stockholm, in their respective
apartments, in the month of August, 2010."
Julian Assange. (photo: La Informacion)
New Docs Throw Doubt on Julian Assange Rape Charges in Stockholm
By Celia Farber, Observer
06 February 16
As UN rules Wikileaks founder was 'arbitrarily detained,' he stands accused
by two Swedish womenis the whole thing just Nordic neurosis?
the regrettable invasion of privacy that follows is strictly for the purpose
of clarification about the events that took place in Stockholm in 2010,
which has led to a five-year legal quagmire between Sweden, the United
Kingdom and Ecuador. The matter has kept Julian Assange in various degrees
of custody since December of 2010, and has cost U.K. taxpayers over 13
million pounds to date.
It is simply amazing how much work this case is generating. It sometimes
seems like an industry. It is certainly non stop. Please do not think that
the case is being dealt with as just another extradition request.
Paul Close, Crown Prosecution Service
Two Swedish womenAnna Ardin and Sofia Wilenhad sex with Wikileaks founder
Julian Assange in Stockholm, in their respective apartments, in the month of
August, 2010.
He stands accused of three counts of sexual molestation and unpeace and
one count of rape, by Swedish prosecutors, who initially dropped all charges
against him, then revived themjust one of many inexplicable twists and
turns in the gluey saga.
Was it rape? Was it somewhere in the grey zone?
The answers lie embedded in a 98-page crime report signed by Swedish
authorities on August 26, 2010, the contents of which have been touched upon
in various press reportsbut never fully clarified. First, one must be
familiar not only with the Swedish language, but also Sweden, which does
not refer to the land mass east of Norway, and north of Denmark, so much as
to a constructed society obsessed with the elimination of risk. Sweden has
both the most expansive rape laws (which extend all the way to marital bed
nagging), as well as the highest number of reported rapes in the world.
Fumbling, bleak and unromanticyes, the 98-page report details the emotional
arc of the women, and often reads more like a dime-store novel than a crime
report: Julian looked at Sofia with a bemused expression. She got the
feeling he did not feel that she, in her bright pink cashmere sweater,
belonged among all these journalists dressed in grey.
Neither woman ever claimed, initially, that she was raped by Mr.
Assangerape being våldtäkt in Swedish, but both spoke of the sex being
unpleasant. They both concealed their distaste for how it had
transpiredthats usually what women do. In the case of Ms. Ardin, she kept
him as a houseguest for six nights after the incident, and even threw a
crayfish party for him. In the case of Ms. Wilen, she and Mr. Assange, after
a night of sex, joked about the broken condom, and his promise that if she
got pregnant he would move to Sweden, pay off her student loans, and they
could name the baby Afghanistan.
She then went out and bought the two of them breakfast oats and orange
juice. (Ian Fleming would never have allowed any of this.)
When Ms. Ardin learned Mr. Assange had also slept with Ms. Wilen, and when
he failed the golden rule of elemental post-coital communications, they
locked arms and went to the policenot to charge him with rape, but to see
if he could be compelled to take an HIV test, on a Saturday, in Stockholm.
The report contains several testimoniesMs. Ardin, Ms. Wilen, two Swedish
male journalists, Ms. Wilens ex boyfriend, brother, and several friends and
colleagues of the two women. Finally, Mr. Assange himself. It closes with
grainy photographs of a broken condom, as well as a condom tipand the
forensic analysis of experts from Statens Kriminaltekniska Laboratorium
(The States Criminal Technological Laboratory)offering forensic results
about the exact conditions along the broken edge of the condom. (Ruled not
to have been broken by an instrument, but to have failed by natural
means.)
After the incidents for which he is wanted for questioning took place, in
mid-August 2010, Mr. Assange remained in Sweden for five weeks, until
September 27, during which time Swedish prosecutors once dropped the case
altogether, only to re-open it days later. Prosecutor Marianne Ny was quoted
in the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter as having said: Even if Im wrong,
I wont give up.
Mr. Assange was originally under arrest in absentia (but not charged) for
four counts of sexual offense: one of unlawful coercion, two of molestation
and one of rape. In August of 2015, all counts expired due to the statute of
limitations, except for the rape charge, which will remain intact until
2020.
Hes been taking refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy in London since June 19,
2012. Swedish authorities have requested his extradition to Sweden, and have
refused to question him in London; His appeal to the U.K. Supreme court to
avoid extradition was rejected in June of 2012, resulting in his seeking
asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy. He has stated that he fears Sweden will
extradite him to the U.S. if he travels there, and Sweden has not promised
not to do so.
Continuous police surveillance at the embassy, to ensure Mr. Assange does
not flee, has cost the U.K. taxpayers over 13 million pounds so far. The
increasingly desperate plans to evacuate Mr. Assange to Ecuador have
included the idea of placing him in a diplomatic body bag, which was
rejected because his body heat could trigger thermal imaging and U.K.
authorities would then have the right to open the bag and seize the
concealed Assange. He is reported, in recent months, to be showing signs of
severe stressknocking over bookshelves and screaming at embassy staffers.
His health, after three and a half years of neither air nor sunlightwhich
prisoners get dailycant be good.
August, 2010: Julian Assange arrives in Stockholm to give a talk. (He
doesnt like hotels, because, as publisher of Wikileaks, he feels he is a
target.) Mr. Assange was actually on an extended visit to Stockholm,
intending to secure residence and work permits to move there, and base his
operations there.
It is decided that he will stay, for at least the first week, at the small
Stockholm apartment of Anna Ardinthe press secretary for the organization
that invited him to speak, the Brotherhood of Social Democrats.
Ms. Ardin is abroad (we dont know where) yet arrives home one day earlier
than expected because she had a lot to do in preparation for Mr. Assanges
talk, the title of which was In War, Truth Is The First Casualty.
It was Ms. Ardin who offered to have Mr. Assange stay in her apartment, to
save the organization some money. The whole milieu has this kind of
collegiate feel: mattresses on the floor, shifting plans, boozy nights,
people coming and goingand of course, a crayfish party.
Mr. Assanges first encounter was with Anna Ardinan ardent feminist, Social
Democrat, Christian, animal rights activist, pro-lifer and scholar on Latin
America. Ms. Ardin described herself online as somebody who, somewhat
alarmingly, burns for justice, solidarity and equality, and she once wrote
a paper on The 7 Steps To Revenge, against men who dump you.
Journalist Johann Wahlstroms comments in the police report that Mr. Assange
was a total magnet for women, saying they just glued themselves to him.
He describes Mr. Assange as gentlemanly, distracted and consumed with his
political thoughts and discussions. Women, Mr. Wahlstrom said, so many of
them, they did everything they could to wind up in bed with him. When asked
by the police interrogator what kvinnosyn (view of women) Mr. Assange had,
Mr. Wahlstrom says, I didnt notice anything noteworthy about that
on the
other hand, there was a bizarre view of men in Anna Ardins circle.
Asked to elaborate, he goes on to give a halting, nervous monologue about
what hes talking about:
I got
well, once again, like I said, I got strange vibes. It happens now
and then especially in academic circles, that you run into
actually I dont
know quite how to express this
but it happens that you run into young women
who have taken like a
theyve fulfilled a journey in the name of feminism,
and become chauvinists, like the worst kind of chauvinism among men, but on
the feminist spectrum. These young women speak of men as sexual tools, and
they say theyre not necessary for intellectual discussions
and that its
only women who need one another. Maybe its more a matter of my generation,
maybe you have never run into this. But Ive encountered it often in
academic circles. And I got this feeling among Annas friends.
Anna told her it was the worst lay she ever had, and told Kajsa she could
have him.
Johann Wahlstrom, pp. 67
Heres the story of their tryst:
Ms. Ardin came home one day early, on Friday August 13, 2010, and she and
Mr. Assange went out to dinner, then returned to her apartment, where he
spent that night, and the next six.
The following morning, August 14, Swedish journalist Johann Wahlstrom
arrives at Ms. Ardins apartment to fetch Mr. Assange and take him to the
venue. Ms. Ardin answers the door, and inside the apartment, Mr. Wahlstrom
notices a thin, thin, thin mattress on the floor, andsurprised that Ms.
Ardin was theretells himself that Mr. Assange must have slept on the
mattress.
He takes Mr. Assange to the venue, Ms. Ardin follows later.
Ms. Ardins portion of the police report relays the events of the previous
night like this:
They were drinking tea. Mr. Assange stroked Ms. Ardins leg, and she
initially welcomed his advances. He suddenly became a little too
aggressiveremoving her clothes and in the process, snapping off her
necklace. The sex that followed is described by Ms. Ardin as
uncomfortable, as it had all progressed too fast. She says Mr. Assange
pinned her arms back, at the same time as she reached for a condom. She did
not want to have sex without a condom, so pulled her legs together. He asked
her why she was doing that, and she replied that she wanted him to wear a
condom. He stopped, put a condom onshe checked with her hand to make sure
it was on properlyand the sex continued. Ms. Ardin describes her feeling at
this point as just wanting to get it over with.
She checked again to make sure the condom was on right, and was reassured
that it was. Still, after Mr. Assange ejaculated, she saw that the condom
was empty, and felt something running down her leg.
After this night, Ms. Ardin declined having any more sex with Mr. Assange,
who, she said, continued to make advances the next few nights. She is
repeatedly asked by male colleagues over the next week if she would like Mr.
Assange to move to another dwelling and she repeatedly declines.
Mr. Assange himself testifies that Ms. Ardin invited him to sleep in her
bed, that she made the first overture, that they had sex several times,
and that she had two orgasms. They both reported that Ms. Ardin pointed to a
wet spot on the sheets; that she said, Is that you? and that he replied,
No, it must be you.
His interpretation was kind of forlorn, and you feel bad for him: Maybe she
was trying to point out how loving the sex had been.
Mr. Assange stayed at Ms. Ardins apartment until the following Friday, and
says, in the police report, that they continued to sleep in the same bed,
had no further intercourse, but did have sexual interactions.
He is told, in the interrogation, that he stands accused of deliberately
breaking the condom he and Ms. Ardin used, and he replies: Thats not
true.
He is asked if he checked the condom before sex and replies: I am not in
the habit of checking them [condoms] before I put them on. When asked who
removed the condom he says he does not remember, but that it is unusual for
the woman to do so.
Kajsa said the impression she got was that Anna felt it was unpleasant but
not frightening or threatening.
Based on Annas story, when she called me, she said we had sex and thats
what happened, and she made no reference to any kind of assault
She did not
want to go to the police. My sense is that she [Ardin] did not experience
this as serious, but got pissed off.
Donald Bostrom, pp. 60
She [Ardin] was joking about Julian, saying hes a strange guy. Suddenly in
the middle of the night hes gone, and hes sitting in the bathroom with his
laptop. Um..she was joking very hard and rough, but in a funny way
.and at
the crayfish party [Ardin turned to Assange and said], I woke up in the
middle of the night and you were gone, I felt dumped. That word made me
jump a little. Um
why did she feel dumped if
you see in my mind they had no
relations, but she said she felt dumped.
Donald Bostrom
Its
a baffling storm of women around him. I mean it happens in seconds.
Its remarkable.
Donald Bostrom, pp. 61
I can say that the overwhelming majority of women who come near him have
just fallen headlong. They just fall.
Donald Bostrom, pp. 53
He strikes me as a person who is very knowledgeable and brilliant. And he
has a hard time finding his way if he is walking around town, because he is
so deep in conversation
.and he is very
I mean, simply put, he is kind.
Johann Wahlstrom, pp. 31
A heartfelt friendship
.She wanted to take care of Julian.
Johann Wahlstrom, pp. 38
Q: Did she ever express a desire for him to move out of her apartment?
A: I asked her every day, actually
she said no of course he can continue to
stay with me.
Johann Wahlstrom, pp. 39
Friday August 13, Mr. Assange has sex with Ms. Ardin, and the next day gives
his talk. Ms. Ardin tweets twice after the incident later characterized as
an assault.
First on August 14, she tweets: Julian wants to go to a crayfish party?
Does anybody have a free spot tonight or tomorrow?
At 2 a.m. on August 15, she tweets that she is sitting outside, hanging out
with some of the smartest people on the planet.
When the police report is filed, the tweets disappear, but bloggers retain
them.
A few weeks before Mr. Assange was scheduled to give this particular lecture
in Stockholm, a 20-something Swedish woman named Sofia Wilen was watching a
TV interview with him. She found him, interesting, brave, and commendable.
For two weeks she followed news reports of Mr. Assange carefully, and read
many articles and interviews. One evening as she sat home Googling his
name, she discovered he was coming to Sweden to speak on the invitation of
Socialdemokratiska Broderskapsrorelsen (The Brotherhood of Social
Democrats).
She emailed their press secretary, Anna Ardin, offering to assist with tasks
pertaining to the event, in exchange for a seat in the audience. On the day
of the eventAugust 14Ms. Wilen arrived, and met both Ms. Ardin and Mr.
Assange himself outside the building. Julian looked at Sofia with a bemused
expression. She got the feeling he did not feel that she, in her bright pink
cashmere sweater, belonged among all these journalists dressed in grey.
Ms. Wilen is immediately asked, by Ms. Ardin, to buy a cable for Mr.
Assange. (The most famous hacker in the world did not bring a cable for his
computer, to this particular talk. Later, we learn, he also did not bring a
charger.)
Off she went. She taxied around Stockholm until she found a computer store
that was open and had the right cable. She returned. Mr. Assange did not
thank her for her effort. She noted this.
After the lecture, Mr. Assange was surrounded by swarms of journalists, and
Ms. Wilen went out and sat in the shade, waiting for the interviews to be
over. This took hours. She eventually overheard that Mr. Assange and his
hosts were going to a restaurant. She then asked if she could come too,
since she had helped buy the cable. Later, it comes to light that all
those officially involved in Mr. Assanges visit and presentation were
confused as to who the girl in the pink sweater was, and where she came
from. They all said she was odd, and they had a curious feeling about her.
A friend of Ms. Wilens told the police she got a text from her on the day
of the lecture that read: He looked at me.
At the restaurant, Ms. Wilen wound up next to Mr. Assange. The police report
notes: He looked at her, now and then, throughout dinner.
At one point, he was eating a traditional sandwich of knackebrodSwedish
hard breadwith cheese, and, having said not one word throughout the dinner,
she asked him if he liked it. He reached over and fed her.
Then Mr. Assange started having cable problems againhe said he needed a
charger. Ms. Wilen said she could get it for him, as she had gotten him the
earlier cable. Yes, you got my cable! he said, holding her across her
back.
Sofia found this flattering, as it was apparent that he was flirting with
her.
After dinner, Mr. Assange, Ms. Wilen, and a third man (Donald Bostrom) all
went to buy a charger for Mr. Assanges computer. Mr. Bostrom asked Mr.
Assange, inexplicably if he wanted to go with him to help move furniture at
his parents house, while Ms. Wilen invited him to the place where she
workedthe Museum of Natural History. You could say Mr. Assanges fate was
sealed when he declined to move furniture, and instead went with Ms. Wilen.
They went to the metro station where Ms. Wilen bought him a ticket, (107
Swedish kronor) as Mr. Assange said he had no cash and did not want to use a
credit card in case he was being followed.
They went to the museum, and waited for a scheduled film to begin. Inside
the movie theater, they made out heavily. Then they went outside where Mr.
Assange fell asleep on the grass for 20 minutes. Ms. Wilen asked Mr. Assange
if they would meet again, and he said yes, after the kraftskiva (crayfish
party) he was to attend at the home of Ms. Ardin.
August 14 was a Saturday night. Mr. Assange said goodbye to Ms. Wilen, and
went off to the crayfish party.
There is a scene from the party that is socio-politically revealing:
It is described by journalist Johann Wahlstrom, who tried, repeatedly, to
warn Mr. Assange about his engagements with women, reminding him of how many
politically vulnerable men have been done in by honey traps throughout
history. He says Mr. Assange listened and agreed, and promised he was being
cautious.
Describing the crayfish party, Mr. Wahlstrom says it was a warm and friendly
evening, nothing hostile, except one moment that stood out in his memory.
There was a friend of Anna Ardin who sat rather far from me, and who made
it clear she was a lesbian, and that she had rather major aggression against
men in general. She said something along the lines of
well, she screamed
across the table to Anna next time lets have a crayfish party without any
men
I remembered the phrase. Mr. Wahlstrom brought it up with Ms. Ardin,
and rather than dismiss it, she said, Yes, yes, it is good when women can
come together by themselves and
be strong together
something like that.
Sweden has been a matriarchy since the Stone Age, when the men (I am not
making this up) lived in barns with the animals and only came into the house
when it was time to impregnate the women.
According to a blog about Swedish sexual politics and rape law, Swedish men
are culturally conditioned to be the more passive party in sexual and
romantic exchanges. A Swedish man may ask a Swedish woman, after a date,
Why didnt you ask for my number?
Women tend to be the sexual aggressors.
If you followed Stieg Larssons feminist Dragon Tattoo crime trilogy
(originally titled Men Who Hate Women) you may recall that the male
journalist, Mikail Blomkvistin the film versionwoke to find Lisbeth
Salander naked, straddling him, and even then, looking baffled, he asked her
repeatedly if she was certain this was what she wanted.
On the night of August 14, Mr. Assange said goodbye to Ms. Wilen after their
afternoon rendezvous and went to Ms. Ardins crayfish party. He and Ms.
Wilen were in touch via phone messages over the next few days with Ms. Wilen
becoming increasingly frustrated that Mr. Assange is hard to reach or make
firm plans with. Monday, August 16, the pair finally meet. They start making
out again, in a park, and decide to go to her apartment. They have to take a
commuter train, the dreaded pendeltåg from central Stockholm to her suburb
of Enköping. And, once again, she has to pay for his train ticket (107
Swedish kronor).
Many a woman, in this situation, would at least fantasize about this phone
call:
Hello? Central Intelligence Agency? You want this punk Assange? I just left
him on the other side of the turnstile at Stureplan
yes thats right
North
entrance, Stureplan
He should have carried some cash.
By the time the slow commuter train delivered the love-birds to their
destination, the bloom was off. They took off their shoes and things
between them didnt feel warm anymore, according to Ms. Wilens testimony.
They made out in the bedroom but she wanted to brush her teeth. It was
midnight, dark outside, and they stood brushing their teeth together which
felt domestic and boring.
They get naked and get into bed. For the next several hours Mr. Assange
has a hard time getting an erection, rubs his penis against Ms. Wilen
repeatedly and finally says he wants to go to sleep.
The report describes Ms. Wilens emotions in detail.
She felt rebuffed and shocked. It came so suddenly. Such long foreplay and
then
nothing. She asked what was wrong, she didnt understand. He pulled the
covers over himself, turned over and fell asleep.
She lay awake for a long
time wondering what had happened, and texted her friends. He lay next to her
snoring. She must have fallen asleep, as she later woke up and they were
having sex.
She had gotten condoms earlier and put them near the bed. He agreed
reluctantly to use a condom but muttered that he preferred her to latex. He
no longer had problems with his erection. They fell asleep and when they
woke up, they had sex again. Then he asked her for orange juice and water.
She had to go to the store, and buy breakfast food. When she returned they
had sex again. She noticed that the condom was not on properly, and they
fell asleep again. When she woke, he was inside her. She asked: Are you
wearing anything? He replied: You.
A note hereat one point Ms. Wilen had texted a friend that she halvsov,
when this happened; meaning was half-sleeping, not exactly sleeping.
She had never had sex without a condom in her whole life, and told Mr.
Assange she was afraid of getting pregnant. He joked that if she had his
baby he would pay off her student loans and that they could name the baby
Afghanistan.
She brought up HIV, and he said he had been tested three months earlier.
She said sarcastic things to him in a joking tone.
He had a meetingshe took him to the train station, and once again paid for
his ticket.
Ms. Wilen experiences dread after Assange has left. She washes her sheets
and calls in sick to work. She wants to clean up and wash everything away.
There was semen on the sheets, and she thought it was disgusting.
When she talked to her friends afterwards she understood she had been the
victim of a crime. She went to Danderyd hospital, and from there to
Sodersjukhuset (another hospital.) There she was examined and tested with a
rape kit.
On August 17, Mr. Wahlstrom texted Ms. Ardin asking where Mr. Assange was.
She texted back: Hes not here. Hes been planning to sleep with the
cashmere girl every night but didnt. Maybe he pulled it off last night.
She later added, cashmere, breasts, and idol-worship tipped the scales,
and that Ms. Wilen was not mentally fast enough, according to J.
Bloggers have pointed out that if Ms. Ardin felt Mr. Assange was a sexual
criminal, and especially if she was such a feminist, why didnt she warn
poor Ms. Wilen?
Touching the genitals of a woman that you are holding or who is asleep with
your genitals can give up to four years in prison. Having sex with a woman
that you are holding or who is asleep when you start can give two to six
years in prison.
From The Swedish Rape Law Erling Hellenas Blog
Sweden is said by some critics to be a bastion of feminist extremism, with
ever expanding rape laws, which have caused Swedens reported rape rates
to increase by 170 percent since 2004 when the laws were expanded. Sweden
reports more rapes than any country in Europe.
The present laws state that sex with a person who due to unconsciousness,
sleep, inebriation, or other drug-affected states, sickness, bodily injury
or psychological disturbance
finds themselves in a helpless state.
Seth said that the matter of diseases was central for Sofia, and before
they had sex for the first time, they both got tested for (sexually
transmitted) diseases and exchanged test results. During the two and a half
years they were together, they did not have sex without a condom on any
occasion. It was, for Sofia, unthinkable. Seth said this was their
agreement. He said it was his understanding that Sofia had never had sex
with anybody without using a condom.
Witness: Seth Benson, ex-boyfriend of Sofia Wilen, pp. 72
So I got a phone call and Donald said, Are you sitting down? He said
Julian has been accused of rape
by the young girl Sofia
.and Anna was livid
over what Sofia told her
and for various reasons she believed what Sofia
said
and they were going to meet.
Johan Wahlstrom
I told him Anna said that Sofia had protested loud and clear and he got
upset. She did not, he said. And then he said that is a pure, pure, pure,
pure lie.
Donald Bostrom, pp. 64
Ms. Wilen had become increasingly upset, and fearful she might have
contracted HIV* from Mr. Assange. She repeatedly called him and said she
wanted him to go get an HIV test. He said he would do so but not under these
circumstancesunder pressure. She then called Ms. Ardin, and told her what
had happened between herself and Mr. Assange. Ms. Ardin became enraged, and
took on a protective role toward Ms. Wilen. Ms. Ardin accompanied Ms. Wilen
to the police station on August 20, playing a supporting role. Neither of
them intended to press any criminal charges against Mr. Assange. They wanted
to compel him to take an HIV test. Once they were at the police station and
told their stories, the female police commissioner informed them that this
all fell within rape law, and soon thereafterthat Mr. Assange was going
to be arrested. Ms. Ardin and Ms. Wilen were upset when they heard this.
Swedish doctors gave Ms. Wilen anti-HIV drugs to ward off a potential
infection, which made her ill.
The reason Ms. Wilen was upset was not that Mr. Assange forced the sexit
was that he managed to get her to have sex without an intact condom. A
careful analysis by Swedish judicial writer Marten Schultz, writing in a
magazine called NEO, clarified that as draconian as Swedish rape laws are,
it is not rape, even in Sweden, to remove a condom, or even to break a
condom during the act.
Only in the shadow of the 1980s HIV/AIDS mushroom cloud, could a broken
condom be met with such hysteria, and morph into a criminal drama, involving
several governments and millions of dollars.
If Mr. Assange, on the other hand, was HIV-positive, and did not disclose
it, he could have spent many years in prisonthe HIV criminalization laws
being most harsh in Sweden, Switzerland and Austria.
Both women make it clear in the report that their negative feelings after
their sexual adventures with Mr. Assange were entirely due to the broken
condoms and their fear of HIV.
Assange and rape, that has several million hits on the web. So its a
gigantic smear campaign. But no, I dont think he thinks the CIA is
involved.
Donald Bostrom, pp. 64
There had been a murder case, Mr. Bostrom pointed out, in the pressa girl
named Nancy, who was killed with a broken bottle. The murderer was caught
and sent to prison. His face in the papers was always pixelated.
But Julian whos only under suspicion, not charged with a crime, his face
is not pixilated.
Lastly: Ms. Ardin lied, for the better part of that week, to Mr. Bostrom and
Mr. Wahlstrominsisting she had not had sex with Mr. Assange, and that he
had not managed to get her into bed.
Anna called me and said, Its not true what I said before, we have had
sex, Julian and I.
and then she said that the other woman, Sofia, had
called her and said Julian was there and had sex with her. Both of these
encounters had been consensual.
and she added, I was so proud, to get the coolest man in the world into
bed, and to stay in my apartment.
Donald Bostrom, pp. 52
*A study completed in 1997, published in the American Journal of
Epidemiology, titled Heterosexual Transmission of HIV in Northern
California: Results from a Ten Year Study followed 175 discordant
couplesthat means one of them was HIV antibody positive, the other
negative. They had sex both protected and unprotected, every which way, for
10 years. The result was explosive in its contrast to media misinformation:
Not one transmission: We observed no sero-conversions after entry into the
study.
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+14 # DurangoKid 2016-02-07 00:24
Even if the rape allegations go away, Assange is not safe from the US
government. They'll go after him one way or another. If he leaves the
Ecuadorian embassy he's a sitting duck.
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New Docs Throw Doubt on Julian Assange Rape Charges in Stockholm
By Celia Farber, Observer
06 February 16
As UN rules Wikileaks founder was 'arbitrarily detained,' he stands accused
by two Swedish womenis the whole thing just Nordic neurosis?
he regrettable invasion of privacy that follows is strictly for the purpose
of clarification about the events that took place in Stockholm in 2010,
which has led to a five-year legal quagmire between Sweden, the United
Kingdom and Ecuador. The matter has kept Julian Assange in various degrees
of custody since December of 2010, and has cost U.K. taxpayers over 13
million pounds to date.
It is simply amazing how much work this case is generating. It sometimes
seems like an industry. It is certainly non stop. Please do not think that
the case is being dealt with as just another extradition request.
Paul Close, Crown Prosecution Service
Two Swedish womenAnna Ardin and Sofia Wilenhad sex with Wikileaks founder
Julian Assange in Stockholm, in their respective apartments, in the month of
August, 2010.
He stands accused of three counts of sexual molestation and unpeace and
one count of rape, by Swedish prosecutors, who initially dropped all charges
against him, then revived themjust one of many inexplicable twists and
turns in the gluey saga.
Was it rape? Was it somewhere in the grey zone?
The answers lie embedded in a 98-page crime report signed by Swedish
authorities on August 26, 2010, the contents of which have been touched upon
in various press reportsbut never fully clarified. First, one must be
familiar not only with the Swedish language, but also Sweden, which does
not refer to the land mass east of Norway, and north of Denmark, so much as
to a constructed society obsessed with the elimination of risk. Sweden has
both the most expansive rape laws (which extend all the way to marital bed
nagging), as well as the highest number of reported rapes in the world.
Fumbling, bleak and unromanticyes, the 98-page report details the emotional
arc of the women, and often reads more like a dime-store novel than a crime
report: Julian looked at Sofia with a bemused expression. She got the
feeling he did not feel that she, in her bright pink cashmere sweater,
belonged among all these journalists dressed in grey.
Neither woman ever claimed, initially, that she was raped by Mr.
Assangerape being våldtäkt in Swedish, but both spoke of the sex being
unpleasant. They both concealed their distaste for how it had
transpiredthats usually what women do. In the case of Ms. Ardin, she kept
him as a houseguest for six nights after the incident, and even threw a
crayfish party for him. In the case of Ms. Wilen, she and Mr. Assange, after
a night of sex, joked about the broken condom, and his promise that if she
got pregnant he would move to Sweden, pay off her student loans, and they
could name the baby Afghanistan.
She then went out and bought the two of them breakfast oats and orange
juice. (Ian Fleming would never have allowed any of this.)
When Ms. Ardin learned Mr. Assange had also slept with Ms. Wilen, and when
he failed the golden rule of elemental post-coital communications, they
locked arms and went to the policenot to charge him with rape, but to see
if he could be compelled to take an HIV test, on a Saturday, in Stockholm.
The report contains several testimoniesMs. Ardin, Ms. Wilen, two Swedish
male journalists, Ms. Wilens ex boyfriend, brother, and several friends and
colleagues of the two women. Finally, Mr. Assange himself. It closes with
grainy photographs of a broken condom, as well as a condom tipand the
forensic analysis of experts from Statens Kriminaltekniska Laboratorium
(The States Criminal Technological Laboratory)offering forensic results
about the exact conditions along the broken edge of the condom. (Ruled not
to have been broken by an instrument, but to have failed by natural
means.)
After the incidents for which he is wanted for questioning took place, in
mid-August 2010, Mr. Assange remained in Sweden for five weeks, until
September 27, during which time Swedish prosecutors once dropped the case
altogether, only to re-open it days later. Prosecutor Marianne Ny was quoted
in the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter as having said: Even if Im wrong,
I wont give up.
Mr. Assange was originally under arrest in absentia (but not charged) for
four counts of sexual offense: one of unlawful coercion, two of molestation
and one of rape. In August of 2015, all counts expired due to the statute of
limitations, except for the rape charge, which will remain intact until
2020.
Hes been taking refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy in London since June 19,
2012. Swedish authorities have requested his extradition to Sweden, and have
refused to question him in London; His appeal to the U.K. Supreme court to
avoid extradition was rejected in June of 2012, resulting in his seeking
asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy. He has stated that he fears Sweden will
extradite him to the U.S. if he travels there, and Sweden has not promised
not to do so.
Continuous police surveillance at the embassy, to ensure Mr. Assange does
not flee, has cost the U.K. taxpayers over 13 million pounds so far. The
increasingly desperate plans to evacuate Mr. Assange to Ecuador have
included the idea of placing him in a diplomatic body bag, which was
rejected because his body heat could trigger thermal imaging and U.K.
authorities would then have the right to open the bag and seize the
concealed Assange. He is reported, in recent months, to be showing signs of
severe stressknocking over bookshelves and screaming at embassy staffers.
His health, after three and a half years of neither air nor sunlightwhich
prisoners get dailycant be good.
August, 2010: Julian Assange arrives in Stockholm to give a talk. (He
doesnt like hotels, because, as publisher of Wikileaks, he feels he is a
target.) Mr. Assange was actually on an extended visit to Stockholm,
intending to secure residence and work permits to move there, and base his
operations there.
It is decided that he will stay, for at least the first week, at the small
Stockholm apartment of Anna Ardinthe press secretary for the organization
that invited him to speak, the Brotherhood of Social Democrats.
Ms. Ardin is abroad (we dont know where) yet arrives home one day earlier
than expected because she had a lot to do in preparation for Mr. Assanges
talk, the title of which was In War, Truth Is The First Casualty.
It was Ms. Ardin who offered to have Mr. Assange stay in her apartment, to
save the organization some money. The whole milieu has this kind of
collegiate feel: mattresses on the floor, shifting plans, boozy nights,
people coming and goingand of course, a crayfish party.
Mr. Assanges first encounter was with Anna Ardinan ardent feminist, Social
Democrat, Christian, animal rights activist, pro-lifer and scholar on Latin
America. Ms. Ardin described herself online as somebody who, somewhat
alarmingly, burns for justice, solidarity and equality, and she once wrote
a paper on The 7 Steps To Revenge, against men who dump you.
Journalist Johann Wahlstroms comments in the police report that Mr. Assange
was a total magnet for women, saying they just glued themselves to him.
He describes Mr. Assange as gentlemanly, distracted and consumed with his
political thoughts and discussions. Women, Mr. Wahlstrom said, so many of
them, they did everything they could to wind up in bed with him. When asked
by the police interrogator what kvinnosyn (view of women) Mr. Assange had,
Mr. Wahlstrom says, I didnt notice anything noteworthy about that
on the
other hand, there was a bizarre view of men in Anna Ardins circle.
Asked to elaborate, he goes on to give a halting, nervous monologue about
what hes talking about:
I got
well, once again, like I said, I got strange vibes. It happens now
and then especially in academic circles, that you run into
actually I dont
know quite how to express this
but it happens that you run into young women
who have taken like a
theyve fulfilled a journey in the name of feminism,
and become chauvinists, like the worst kind of chauvinism among men, but on
the feminist spectrum. These young women speak of men as sexual tools, and
they say theyre not necessary for intellectual discussions
and that its
only women who need one another. Maybe its more a matter of my generation,
maybe you have never run into this. But Ive encountered it often in
academic circles. And I got this feeling among Annas friends.
Anna told her it was the worst lay she ever had, and told Kajsa she could
have him.
Johann Wahlstrom, pp. 67
Heres the story of their tryst:
Ms. Ardin came home one day early, on Friday August 13, 2010, and she and
Mr. Assange went out to dinner, then returned to her apartment, where he
spent that night, and the next six.
The following morning, August 14, Swedish journalist Johann Wahlstrom
arrives at Ms. Ardins apartment to fetch Mr. Assange and take him to the
venue. Ms. Ardin answers the door, and inside the apartment, Mr. Wahlstrom
notices a thin, thin, thin mattress on the floor, andsurprised that Ms.
Ardin was theretells himself that Mr. Assange must have slept on the
mattress.
He takes Mr. Assange to the venue, Ms. Ardin follows later.
Ms. Ardins portion of the police report relays the events of the previous
night like this:
They were drinking tea. Mr. Assange stroked Ms. Ardins leg, and she
initially welcomed his advances. He suddenly became a little too
aggressiveremoving her clothes and in the process, snapping off her
necklace. The sex that followed is described by Ms. Ardin as
uncomfortable, as it had all progressed too fast. She says Mr. Assange
pinned her arms back, at the same time as she reached for a condom. She did
not want to have sex without a condom, so pulled her legs together. He asked
her why she was doing that, and she replied that she wanted him to wear a
condom. He stopped, put a condom onshe checked with her hand to make sure
it was on properlyand the sex continued. Ms. Ardin describes her feeling at
this point as just wanting to get it over with.
She checked again to make sure the condom was on right, and was reassured
that it was. Still, after Mr. Assange ejaculated, she saw that the condom
was empty, and felt something running down her leg.
After this night, Ms. Ardin declined having any more sex with Mr. Assange,
who, she said, continued to make advances the next few nights. She is
repeatedly asked by male colleagues over the next week if she would like Mr.
Assange to move to another dwelling and she repeatedly declines.
Mr. Assange himself testifies that Ms. Ardin invited him to sleep in her
bed, that she made the first overture, that they had sex several times,
and that she had two orgasms. They both reported that Ms. Ardin pointed to a
wet spot on the sheets; that she said, Is that you? and that he replied,
No, it must be you.
His interpretation was kind of forlorn, and you feel bad for him: Maybe she
was trying to point out how loving the sex had been.
Mr. Assange stayed at Ms. Ardins apartment until the following Friday, and
says, in the police report, that they continued to sleep in the same bed,
had no further intercourse, but did have sexual interactions.
He is told, in the interrogation, that he stands accused of deliberately
breaking the condom he and Ms. Ardin used, and he replies: Thats not
true.
He is asked if he checked the condom before sex and replies: I am not in
the habit of checking them [condoms] before I put them on. When asked who
removed the condom he says he does not remember, but that it is unusual for
the woman to do so.
Kajsa said the impression she got was that Anna felt it was unpleasant but
not frightening or threatening.
Based on Annas story, when she called me, she said we had sex and thats
what happened, and she made no reference to any kind of assault
She did not
want to go to the police. My sense is that she [Ardin] did not experience
this as serious, but got pissed off.
Donald Bostrom, pp. 60
She [Ardin] was joking about Julian, saying hes a strange guy. Suddenly in
the middle of the night hes gone, and hes sitting in the bathroom with his
laptop. Um..she was joking very hard and rough, but in a funny way
.and at
the crayfish party [Ardin turned to Assange and said], I woke up in the
middle of the night and you were gone, I felt dumped. That word made me
jump a little. Um
why did she feel dumped if
you see in my mind they had no
relations, but she said she felt dumped.
Donald Bostrom
Its
a baffling storm of women around him. I mean it happens in seconds.
Its remarkable.
Donald Bostrom, pp. 61
I can say that the overwhelming majority of women who come near him have
just fallen headlong. They just fall.
Donald Bostrom, pp. 53
He strikes me as a person who is very knowledgeable and brilliant. And he
has a hard time finding his way if he is walking around town, because he is
so deep in conversation
.and he is very
I mean, simply put, he is kind.
Johann Wahlstrom, pp. 31
A heartfelt friendship
.She wanted to take care of Julian.
Johann Wahlstrom, pp. 38
Q: Did she ever express a desire for him to move out of her apartment?
A: I asked her every day, actually
she said no of course he can continue to
stay with me.
Johann Wahlstrom, pp. 39
Friday August 13, Mr. Assange has sex with Ms. Ardin, and the next day gives
his talk. Ms. Ardin tweets twice after the incident later characterized as
an assault.
First on August 14, she tweets: Julian wants to go to a crayfish party?
Does anybody have a free spot tonight or tomorrow?
At 2 a.m. on August 15, she tweets that she is sitting outside, hanging out
with some of the smartest people on the planet.
When the police report is filed, the tweets disappear, but bloggers retain
them.
A few weeks before Mr. Assange was scheduled to give this particular lecture
in Stockholm, a 20-something Swedish woman named Sofia Wilen was watching a
TV interview with him. She found him, interesting, brave, and commendable.
For two weeks she followed news reports of Mr. Assange carefully, and read
many articles and interviews. One evening as she sat home Googling his
name, she discovered he was coming to Sweden to speak on the invitation of
Socialdemokratiska Broderskapsrorelsen (The Brotherhood of Social
Democrats).
She emailed their press secretary, Anna Ardin, offering to assist with tasks
pertaining to the event, in exchange for a seat in the audience. On the day
of the eventAugust 14Ms. Wilen arrived, and met both Ms. Ardin and Mr.
Assange himself outside the building. Julian looked at Sofia with a bemused
expression. She got the feeling he did not feel that she, in her bright pink
cashmere sweater, belonged among all these journalists dressed in grey.
Ms. Wilen is immediately asked, by Ms. Ardin, to buy a cable for Mr.
Assange. (The most famous hacker in the world did not bring a cable for his
computer, to this particular talk. Later, we learn, he also did not bring a
charger.)
Off she went. She taxied around Stockholm until she found a computer store
that was open and had the right cable. She returned. Mr. Assange did not
thank her for her effort. She noted this.
After the lecture, Mr. Assange was surrounded by swarms of journalists, and
Ms. Wilen went out and sat in the shade, waiting for the interviews to be
over. This took hours. She eventually overheard that Mr. Assange and his
hosts were going to a restaurant. She then asked if she could come too,
since she had helped buy the cable. Later, it comes to light that all
those officially involved in Mr. Assanges visit and presentation were
confused as to who the girl in the pink sweater was, and where she came
from. They all said she was odd, and they had a curious feeling about her.
A friend of Ms. Wilens told the police she got a text from her on the day
of the lecture that read: He looked at me.
At the restaurant, Ms. Wilen wound up next to Mr. Assange. The police report
notes: He looked at her, now and then, throughout dinner.
At one point, he was eating a traditional sandwich of knackebrodSwedish
hard breadwith cheese, and, having said not one word throughout the dinner,
she asked him if he liked it. He reached over and fed her.
Then Mr. Assange started having cable problems againhe said he needed a
charger. Ms. Wilen said she could get it for him, as she had gotten him the
earlier cable. Yes, you got my cable! he said, holding her across her
back.
Sofia found this flattering, as it was apparent that he was flirting with
her.
After dinner, Mr. Assange, Ms. Wilen, and a third man (Donald Bostrom) all
went to buy a charger for Mr. Assanges computer. Mr. Bostrom asked Mr.
Assange, inexplicably if he wanted to go with him to help move furniture at
his parents house, while Ms. Wilen invited him to the place where she
workedthe Museum of Natural History. You could say Mr. Assanges fate was
sealed when he declined to move furniture, and instead went with Ms. Wilen.
They went to the metro station where Ms. Wilen bought him a ticket, (107
Swedish kronor) as Mr. Assange said he had no cash and did not want to use a
credit card in case he was being followed.
They went to the museum, and waited for a scheduled film to begin. Inside
the movie theater, they made out heavily. Then they went outside where Mr.
Assange fell asleep on the grass for 20 minutes. Ms. Wilen asked Mr. Assange
if they would meet again, and he said yes, after the kraftskiva (crayfish
party) he was to attend at the home of Ms. Ardin.
August 14 was a Saturday night. Mr. Assange said goodbye to Ms. Wilen, and
went off to the crayfish party.
There is a scene from the party that is socio-politically revealing:
It is described by journalist Johann Wahlstrom, who tried, repeatedly, to
warn Mr. Assange about his engagements with women, reminding him of how many
politically vulnerable men have been done in by honey traps throughout
history. He says Mr. Assange listened and agreed, and promised he was being
cautious.
Describing the crayfish party, Mr. Wahlstrom says it was a warm and friendly
evening, nothing hostile, except one moment that stood out in his memory.
There was a friend of Anna Ardin who sat rather far from me, and who made
it clear she was a lesbian, and that she had rather major aggression against
men in general. She said something along the lines of
well, she screamed
across the table to Anna next time lets have a crayfish party without any
men
I remembered the phrase. Mr. Wahlstrom brought it up with Ms. Ardin,
and rather than dismiss it, she said, Yes, yes, it is good when women can
come together by themselves and
be strong together
something like that.
Sweden has been a matriarchy since the Stone Age, when the men (I am not
making this up) lived in barns with the animals and only came into the house
when it was time to impregnate the women.
According to a blog about Swedish sexual politics and rape law, Swedish men
are culturally conditioned to be the more passive party in sexual and
romantic exchanges. A Swedish man may ask a Swedish woman, after a date,
Why didnt you ask for my number?
Women tend to be the sexual aggressors.
If you followed Stieg Larssons feminist Dragon Tattoo crime trilogy
(originally titled Men Who Hate Women) you may recall that the male
journalist, Mikail Blomkvistin the film versionwoke to find Lisbeth
Salander naked, straddling him, and even then, looking baffled, he asked her
repeatedly if she was certain this was what she wanted.
On the night of August 14, Mr. Assange said goodbye to Ms. Wilen after their
afternoon rendezvous and went to Ms. Ardins crayfish party. He and Ms.
Wilen were in touch via phone messages over the next few days with Ms. Wilen
becoming increasingly frustrated that Mr. Assange is hard to reach or make
firm plans with. Monday, August 16, the pair finally meet. They start making
out again, in a park, and decide to go to her apartment. They have to take a
commuter train, the dreaded pendeltåg from central Stockholm to her suburb
of Enköping. And, once again, she has to pay for his train ticket (107
Swedish kronor).
Many a woman, in this situation, would at least fantasize about this phone
call:
Hello? Central Intelligence Agency? You want this punk Assange? I just left
him on the other side of the turnstile at Stureplan
yes thats right
North
entrance, Stureplan
He should have carried some cash.
By the time the slow commuter train delivered the love-birds to their
destination, the bloom was off. They took off their shoes and things
between them didnt feel warm anymore, according to Ms. Wilens testimony.
They made out in the bedroom but she wanted to brush her teeth. It was
midnight, dark outside, and they stood brushing their teeth together which
felt domestic and boring.
They get naked and get into bed. For the next several hours Mr. Assange
has a hard time getting an erection, rubs his penis against Ms. Wilen
repeatedly and finally says he wants to go to sleep.
The report describes Ms. Wilens emotions in detail.
She felt rebuffed and shocked. It came so suddenly. Such long foreplay and
then
nothing. She asked what was wrong, she didnt understand. He pulled the
covers over himself, turned over and fell asleep.
She lay awake for a long
time wondering what had happened, and texted her friends. He lay next to her
snoring. She must have fallen asleep, as she later woke up and they were
having sex.
She had gotten condoms earlier and put them near the bed. He agreed
reluctantly to use a condom but muttered that he preferred her to latex. He
no longer had problems with his erection. They fell asleep and when they
woke up, they had sex again. Then he asked her for orange juice and water.
She had to go to the store, and buy breakfast food. When she returned they
had sex again. She noticed that the condom was not on properly, and they
fell asleep again. When she woke, he was inside her. She asked: Are you
wearing anything? He replied: You.
A note hereat one point Ms. Wilen had texted a friend that she halvsov,
when this happened; meaning was half-sleeping, not exactly sleeping.
She had never had sex without a condom in her whole life, and told Mr.
Assange she was afraid of getting pregnant. He joked that if she had his
baby he would pay off her student loans and that they could name the baby
Afghanistan.
She brought up HIV, and he said he had been tested three months earlier.
She said sarcastic things to him in a joking tone.
He had a meetingshe took him to the train station, and once again paid for
his ticket.
Ms. Wilen experiences dread after Assange has left. She washes her sheets
and calls in sick to work. She wants to clean up and wash everything away.
There was semen on the sheets, and she thought it was disgusting.
When she talked to her friends afterwards she understood she had been the
victim of a crime. She went to Danderyd hospital, and from there to
Sodersjukhuset (another hospital.) There she was examined and tested with a
rape kit.
On August 17, Mr. Wahlstrom texted Ms. Ardin asking where Mr. Assange was.
She texted back: Hes not here. Hes been planning to sleep with the
cashmere girl every night but didnt. Maybe he pulled it off last night.
She later added, cashmere, breasts, and idol-worship tipped the scales,
and that Ms. Wilen was not mentally fast enough, according to J.
Bloggers have pointed out that if Ms. Ardin felt Mr. Assange was a sexual
criminal, and especially if she was such a feminist, why didnt she warn
poor Ms. Wilen?
Touching the genitals of a woman that you are holding or who is asleep with
your genitals can give up to four years in prison. Having sex with a woman
that you are holding or who is asleep when you start can give two to six
years in prison.
From The Swedish Rape Law Erling Hellenas Blog
Sweden is said by some critics to be a bastion of feminist extremism, with
ever expanding rape laws, which have caused Swedens reported rape rates
to increase by 170 percent since 2004 when the laws were expanded. Sweden
reports more rapes than any country in Europe.
The present laws state that sex with a person who due to unconsciousness,
sleep, inebriation, or other drug-affected states, sickness, bodily injury
or psychological disturbance
finds themselves in a helpless state.
Seth said that the matter of diseases was central for Sofia, and before
they had sex for the first time, they both got tested for (sexually
transmitted) diseases and exchanged test results. During the two and a half
years they were together, they did not have sex without a condom on any
occasion. It was, for Sofia, unthinkable. Seth said this was their
agreement. He said it was his understanding that Sofia had never had sex
with anybody without using a condom.
Witness: Seth Benson, ex-boyfriend of Sofia Wilen, pp. 72
So I got a phone call and Donald said, Are you sitting down? He said
Julian has been accused of rape
by the young girl Sofia
.and Anna was livid
over what Sofia told her
and for various reasons she believed what Sofia
said
and they were going to meet.
Johan Wahlstrom
I told him Anna said that Sofia had protested loud and clear and he got
upset. She did not, he said. And then he said that is a pure, pure, pure,
pure lie.
Donald Bostrom, pp. 64
Ms. Wilen had become increasingly upset, and fearful she might have
contracted HIV* from Mr. Assange. She repeatedly called him and said she
wanted him to go get an HIV test. He said he would do so but not under these
circumstancesunder pressure. She then called Ms. Ardin, and told her what
had happened between herself and Mr. Assange. Ms. Ardin became enraged, and
took on a protective role toward Ms. Wilen. Ms. Ardin accompanied Ms. Wilen
to the police station on August 20, playing a supporting role. Neither of
them intended to press any criminal charges against Mr. Assange. They wanted
to compel him to take an HIV test. Once they were at the police station and
told their stories, the female police commissioner informed them that this
all fell within rape law, and soon thereafterthat Mr. Assange was going
to be arrested. Ms. Ardin and Ms. Wilen were upset when they heard this.
Swedish doctors gave Ms. Wilen anti-HIV drugs to ward off a potential
infection, which made her ill.
The reason Ms. Wilen was upset was not that Mr. Assange forced the sexit
was that he managed to get her to have sex without an intact condom. A
careful analysis by Swedish judicial writer Marten Schultz, writing in a
magazine called NEO, clarified that as draconian as Swedish rape laws are,
it is not rape, even in Sweden, to remove a condom, or even to break a
condom during the act.
Only in the shadow of the 1980s HIV/AIDS mushroom cloud, could a broken
condom be met with such hysteria, and morph into a criminal drama, involving
several governments and millions of dollars.
If Mr. Assange, on the other hand, was HIV-positive, and did not disclose
it, he could have spent many years in prisonthe HIV criminalization laws
being most harsh in Sweden, Switzerland and Austria.
Both women make it clear in the report that their negative feelings after
their sexual adventures with Mr. Assange were entirely due to the broken
condoms and their fear of HIV.
Assange and rape, that has several million hits on the web. So its a
gigantic smear campaign. But no, I dont think he thinks the CIA is
involved.
Donald Bostrom, pp. 64
There had been a murder case, Mr. Bostrom pointed out, in the pressa girl
named Nancy, who was killed with a broken bottle. The murderer was caught
and sent to prison. His face in the papers was always pixelated.
But Julian whos only under suspicion, not charged with a crime, his face
is not pixilated.
Lastly: Ms. Ardin lied, for the better part of that week, to Mr. Bostrom and
Mr. Wahlstrominsisting she had not had sex with Mr. Assange, and that he
had not managed to get her into bed.
Anna called me and said, Its not true what I said before, we have had
sex, Julian and I.
and then she said that the other woman, Sofia, had
called her and said Julian was there and had sex with her. Both of these
encounters had been consensual.
and she added, I was so proud, to get the coolest man in the world into
bed, and to stay in my apartment.
Donald Bostrom, pp. 52
*A study completed in 1997, published in the American Journal of
Epidemiology, titled Heterosexual Transmission of HIV in Northern
California: Results from a Ten Year Study followed 175 discordant
couplesthat means one of them was HIV antibody positive, the other
negative. They had sex both protected and unprotected, every which way, for
10 years. The result was explosive in its contrast to media misinformation:
Not one transmission: We observed no sero-conversions after entry into the
study.
