War in Afghanistan.

[Lissa]

I predict the site will be shut down soon, and Julian Assange will be prosecuted for whatever they can stick on him.

My bet? They have nothing, and Julian Assange will continue to do what he's always done. I'm optimistic that Wikileaks will remain in operation.

If for no other purpose than to... ... "smash it through a plate-glass window. Take a snapshot of the bleeding mess and send it out in a Christmas card to let them know that they need to live in a state of constant fear."

If it works twice as well as the original, we can expect to see Wikileaks alive and well long into the next century.*

-Jester

*The original did also include a disclaimer that this was not meant literally - whereas the US government might well be more direct.

If the spooks are subtle, it will appear as if he died in a freak accident where they could only be a million to one chance, or he will just disappear without a trace. The questions is *whose* spooks will get him. When you mess with engaging in asymmetric information warfare against all of NATO and their allies, you wouldn't know who hired the contractors. They may just be allied mujaheddin as well, and we're handing out tons of cash for dirty deeds.

You don't kill someone like this in this day and age, you discredit them or get them jailed for trumped up, but highly likely charges. Killing someone makes them a martyr now, tarnishing their image makes people no longer pay attention to them.

Besides, the information that went up is 6+ months out of date. A lot of things have changed from the most recent items they published. The only thing this publishing is going to do is make it less likely that Afghan's will work with the NATO forces.

For those of you not following recent info on the situation, Swedish prosecutors have now placed two arrest warrants against the founder of wikileaks, one has been dropped because the rape charges were flimsy at best, but the second, a molestation charge, are still being looked into. So, as I noted in this post, you don't kill someone like this, you discredit which is what is happening now.