What former Icelandic Interior Minister Ogmundur Jonasson recounts is deeply revealing:

In late June 2011, the FBI contacted the Icelandic Ministry of the Interior with information that sensitive Icelandic infrastructure could be affected by cyber attacks.

On 25 August 2011, the FBI officials arrived in Iceland. It turned out that the information about the cyber attacks was only pretended, and that the FBI was in fact looking for an "accomplice" who was willing to compromise or "frame" Assange.

Jonasson further speculates that a European ally was meant to give an international dimension to the prosecution of Assange.

Jonasson declined for what he calls "democratic" reasons.

He insists that the Wikileaks publications have great democratic value for Iceland and that the public must be awakened. In his view (and this is also mine) Assange can only be freed through public pressure.

By the way: The FBI employees were expelled from Iceland and travelled on to Scandinavia.

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