LONDON — A Swedish prosecutor said on Thursday that she would seek a court order for the arrest of Julian Assange, founder of the WikiLeaks whistle-blower’s Web site, for questioning on charges of rape and other offenses.
Mr. Assange claims that the charges are retalition for WikiLeaks posting on its Web site a cache of 77,000 secret Pentagon documents on the war in Afghanistan, and following up last month by posting nearly 400,000 Pentagon documents, also secret, on the Iraq war.
The US State Department categorically denied those claims. However, one anonymous official stated, "Betcha he can't prove that."