WikiLeaks' Assange Hopes To Exit London Embassy "Soon" 299
An anonymous reader writes Julian Assange has hosted a press conference in which he indicated he is soon about to leave the embassy of Ecuador in London. From the article: "WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has spent over two years in Ecuador's London embassy to avoid a sex crimes inquiry in Sweden, said on Monday he planned to leave the building 'soon', but Britain signaled it would still arrest him if he tried. Assange made the surprise assertion during a news conference alongside Ecuador's Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino. But his spokesman played down the chances of an imminent departure, saying the British government would first need to revise its position and let him leave without arrest, something it has repeatedly refused to do.
Re:UK Law has changed. (Score:4, Funny)
Nah, they make him prime minister of Italy and everything's gonna be a-ok.
Re:Diplomatic pouch? (Score:4, Funny)
Suppose they drove a van into the embassy, Assange got in (or didn't get in), and they drove it out to an airport.
Your plan is close, but you would actually need a man-sized diplomatic pouch, large enough for Assange to crouch within, with the zipper fully closed with a diplomatic seal. He'd need to stay in the pouch until his plane was outside territorial airspace.
Re:How many years could he be charged with? (Score:4, Funny)
I dont know about pigs, but I think I saw a strawman shooting across the room a minute ago...
Re:How many years could he be charged with? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:How many years could he be charged with? (Score:4, Funny)
Oh no. An attention whore? Involved in politics? How unprecedented.