<story><title>Sweden reopens Assange rape investigation, to seek extradition</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-wikileaks-assange-sweden-prosecutor/sweden-reopens-assange-rape-investigation-to-seek-extradition-idUSKCN1SJ0UZ</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>seanalltogether</author><text>&amp;gt; “His attitude is that he is happy to cooperate with Sweden and that he wants to be interviewed and that he wants to clear his name,” Samuelson told Reuters.&lt;p&gt;He spent how many years on both UK soil and then the Ecuadorean embassy to fight these Swedish allegations and now he&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;happy to cooperate&amp;quot;. He&amp;#x27;s imprisoned himself all these years for nothing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Vinnl</author><text>As I understood it, he fled to the embassy because he was afraid the Swedish allegations would be used as an excuse to extradite him to the US. Now that his UK charges can be used for that, that&amp;#x27;s no longer an objection.</text></comment>
<story><title>Sweden reopens Assange rape investigation, to seek extradition</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-wikileaks-assange-sweden-prosecutor/sweden-reopens-assange-rape-investigation-to-seek-extradition-idUSKCN1SJ0UZ</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>seanalltogether</author><text>&amp;gt; “His attitude is that he is happy to cooperate with Sweden and that he wants to be interviewed and that he wants to clear his name,” Samuelson told Reuters.&lt;p&gt;He spent how many years on both UK soil and then the Ecuadorean embassy to fight these Swedish allegations and now he&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;happy to cooperate&amp;quot;. He&amp;#x27;s imprisoned himself all these years for nothing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>trollied</author><text>Hindsight is a wonderful thing.&lt;p&gt;He could probably have been leading a quiet life in Sweden by now, having served his sentence in a nice Swedish prison.</text></comment>