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Swedish police said on Sunday that two explosions in central Stockholm were an act of "terrorism" by what appeared to be a suicide bomber, who killed himself and injured two people. A car exploded in the city centre near Drottninggatan, causing panic among Christmas shoppers. Shortly afterward, a second explosion was heard higher up on the same street. Police would not comment on a motive for Saturday's attack on a busy street, but Swedish news agency TT has reported receiving an email ten minutes before the blasts, saying "the time has come to take action", referring to the country's soldiers in Afghanistan and to a case of a cartoon of Islam's prophet Muhammad that outraged the Muslim world.
Plibersek breaks ranks to demand action against WikiLeaks founder
- From: The Australian
- December 13, 2010
A minister in the Gillard government has defended the push to charge Julian Assange for publishing secret UScables on his WikiLeaks website.
Human Services Minister Tanya Plibersek told Sky News' Australian Agenda the leaks were very serious and threatened the workings of international diplomacy and the quality of advice public servants were willing to give. She broke ranks with some of her factional colleagues in the Labor Left, who told The Weekend Australian the government had overreacted to the leaks and should stop treating Mr Assange like a criminal. Backbencher Laurie Ferguson said the information the 39-year-old Australian had released was crucial to democracy and to exposing the truth.
Ms Plibersek said yesterday that at the heart of the issue was the fact that the documents were classified and had been stolen.
"I don't think that it's a terrific thing for world security for people to go stealing classified documents and sticking them on the internet," she said.
"I think everyone in the Left of the party, the Right of the party and the Australian public would expect that Julian Assange would face the law, as any other Australian citizen would face the law."
Ms Plibersek said the language used by those calling for Mr Assange to be assassinated and accusing him of being a terrorist was extreme and unwarranted.
"But the Australian government has not said those things. The Australian government has said that this is based on an original criminal act, which is a theft of classified documents," she said.
"It's yet to be seen who has stolen those documents, and those are matters best left to the police, both in the United States and here."
Ms Plibersek said anyone publishing anything had to apply a degree of responsibility.
"If we find that someone, say a businessman in Iran who is pro-American, is strung up by the Iranian government because these documents have been published, do you say that Julian Assange has no responsibility for that?
"I think the first principle to go back to is they are stolen documents. It is irresponsible just to whack them up on the internet without knowing what's in them, without knowing what the consequences are."
About 300 people rallied outside South Australia's parliament yesterday in support of WikiLeaks and to demand fair treatment for Mr Assange, who is being held in a London jail.
Event organiser Richard Bergin told the rally people were not accepting the claim that WikiLeaks was a threat.
"An attack on Assange is an attack on WikiLeaks and an attack on WikiLeaks is an attack on us and our right to know the truth," Mr Bergin said.
Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young said it seemed Julia Gillard had either misheard or misunderstood the Australian people on the issue and they were outraged.
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