WikiLeaks Files Criminal Complaint Against America in Sweden
Coinciding with a visit from President Obama
The 186-page affidavit claims America stole evidence about "a war crime perpetrated by U.S. forces in Afghanistan."
WikiLeaks filed a criminal complaint in Sweden on Tuesday ahead of the arrival of President Obama and a U.S. delegation.
The complaint — the first of four WikiLeaks says it has planned — concerns the "unlawful seizure" of WikiLeaks property in 2010, just after the group published thousands of classified U.S. intelligence cables pertaining to the war in Afghanistan.
The 186-page affidavit claims the United States stole evidence about "a war crime perpetrated by U.S. forces in Afghanistan in which more than sixty women and children were killed."
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Snowden's leaks are getting awfully self-referential at this point.