Sweden backs WikiLeaks, not asked by USA yet to take action

WikiLeaks is smart and it has to be as it plays with fire all the time revealing all the secret information in the world. This time the news surrounded by the sensitive information in 15,000 confidential documents on the war in Afghanistan.

WikiLeaks always knew that setting US as the base and working against them is impossible, hence as the good visionary they changed their base to Sweden in 2007 to take advantage of laws protecting whistle blowers and a culture supportive of online mavericks.

It has been working fine till now but there are some possible threats now as Pentagon has gone way upset on the recent documents published on WikiLeaks on Iraq and Afghanistan war. Till now, WikiLeaks has already released nearly 77,000 leaked classified US military documents about the war in Afghanistan and is preparing to publish 15,000 more, despite criticism that doing so could endanger lives, since the files include names of some Afghan informants.

Kristinn Hrafnsson, an Icelandic member of WikiLeaks said, 'I am aware that they (the US military) has expressed the willingness to open a dialogue on that.". If this dialogue takes place and fails, then it seems WikiLeaks is looking at the hard time coming to them.

As far as Sweden is concerned, its Foreign Minister Carl Bildt said the US has not contacted Sweden about WikiLeaks. Any complaint against the site would be a matter for Swedish judicial authorities not the government, Bildt said, but added he doesn't primarily see WikiLeaks as a legal problem.

He also clarified that it doesn't make any huge difference to them if US approaches them in the concerned matter. They will take an action, if required, on the basis of their laws which doesn't take away the freedom of cyber activities.