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struggle4progress

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Mon Nov 26, 2012, 10:53 AM Nov 2012

Swedish envoy bashes Aussie press on Assange [View all]

Published: 26 Nov 12 12:24 CET

The criticism comes in an email from Swedish ambassador Sven-Olof Peterson to Elizabeth Farrelly in response to an April 12th column entitled "Truth of Assange is stranger than fiction" in the Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) ...

Wikileaks’ Twitter account published a link to more than 100 pages worth of documents on Sunday and immediately faced flack on the social media site for choosing to describe Peterson’s reaction as “going berserk” ...

Swedish Foreign Ministry spokesman Anders Jörle downplayed the significance of the documents' release.

"We're the ones who made these documents public," he told The Local ...

http://www.thelocal.se/44660/20121126/

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