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Tuesday, December 7, 2010 – Daily News – 5A WORLD BRIEFING Assange may surrender to British police LONDON (AP) — Julian Assange’s lawyer was arranging to deliver the WikiLeaks founder to British police for question- ing in a sex-crimes investi- gation of the man who has angered Washington by spilling thousands of gov- ernment secrets on the Inter- net. Lawyer Mark Stephens told reporters in London that the Metropolitan Police had called him to say they had received an arrest warrant from Sweden for Assange. Assange has been staying at an undisclosed location in Britain. ‘‘We are in the process of making arrangements to meet with police by con- sent,’’ Stephens said Mon- day, declining to say when Assange’s interview with police would take place. The 39-year-old Aus- tralian is accused of rape and sexual molestation in Sweden, and the case could lead to his extradition. He has denied the accusations, which Stephens has said stem from a ‘‘dispute over consensual but unprotected sex.’’ The lawyer has said the Swedish investigation has turned into a ‘‘political stunt.’’ The pressure on Wik- iLeaks mounted from other quarters Monday: Swiss authorities closed Assange’s bank account, depriving him of a key fundraising tool. And WikiLeaks struggled to stay online despite more hacker attacks and resis- tance from world govern- ments, receiving help from computer-savvy advocates who have set up hundreds of ‘‘mirrors’’ — or carbon- copy websites — around the world. In one of its most sensi- tive disclosures yet, Wik- iLeaks released on Sunday a secret 2009 diplomatic cable listing sites around the world that the U.S. consid- ers critical to its security. The locations include under- sea communications lines, mines, food suppliers, man- ufacturers of weapons com- ponents, and vaccine facto- ries. Pentagon spokesman Col. David Lapan called the disclosure damaging and said it gives valuable infor- mation to the nation’s ene- mies. ‘‘This is one of many rea- sons why we believe Wik- iLeaks’ actions are irrespon- sible and dangerous,’’ Lapan said. WikiLeaks has been under intense international scrutiny over its disclosure of a mountain of classified U.S. cables that have embar- rassed Washington and other governments. 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Main Street • Red Bluff • 527-4588 3RD investigating whether Assange can be prosecuted under espionage law. In what Assange described as a last-ditch deterrent, WikiLeaks has warned that it has distributed a heavily encrypted version of some of its most impor- tant documents and that the information could be instantly made public if the staff were arrested. For days, WikiLeaks has been hounded by govern- ments, hackers and compa- nies that have forced it to move from one website to another. WikiLeaks is now relying on a Swedish host. But WikiLeaks’ Swedish servers were crippled after coming under suspected attack again Monday, the latest in a series of such assaults. It was not clear who was organizing the attacks, but WikiLeaks has blamed pre- vious ones on intelligence forces in the U.S. and else- where. WikiLeaks’ huge online following of tech-savvy young people has pitched in, setting up more than 500 mirrors. ‘‘There is a whole new generation, digital natives, born with the Internet, that understands the freedom of communication,’’ said Pas- cal Gloor, vice president of the Swiss Pirate Party, whose Swiss Web address, wikileaks.ch, has been serv- ing as a mainstay for Wik- iLeaks traffic. ‘‘It’s not a left-right thing anymore. It’s a generational thing between the politi- cians who don’t understand that it’s too late for them to regulate the Internet and the young who use technology every day.’’ Meanwhile, the Swiss postal system’s financial arm, Postfinance, shut down a bank account set up by Assange to receive dona- tions after the agency deter- mined that he provided false information regarding his place of residence in open- ing the account. Assange had listed his lawyer’s address in Geneva. ‘‘He will get his money Postfinance back,’’ spokesman Alex Josty said. ‘‘We just close the account.’’ Assange’s lawyers said the account contained about $41,000. Over the weekend, the online payment service PayPal cut off WikiLeaks and, according to his Assange’s lawyers, froze $80,000 of the organiza- tion’s money. The group is left with only a few options for rais- ing money now — through a Swiss-Icelandic credit card processing center and accounts in Iceland and Ger- many. Monday marked the first day that WikiLeaks did not publish any new cables. It was unclear whether that had anything to do with the computer attacks. Mich. woman may sue over toilet paper dispenser DETROIT (AP) — A Michigan woman whose hand was broken while she was reaching for toilet paper can sue a restaurant over her injury. The case is dividing the Michigan Supreme Court. 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