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Two different women who approach the police with an exactly similar but extremely difficult to verify complaint about events that are alleged to have taken place in the same week...

What people say about somebody's actions is not yet "strong evidence".

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Tue Aug 24th, 2010 at 04:47:10 PM EST
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Re: Wikileaks, Sex and Afghanistan: What Matters (none / 0)

Yes it is, if it was a crime. The important matter is whether the two allegedly independent witnesses were truly independent. If they were and their stories about Assange's behavior are similar (thereby corroborating the other witness's testimony), then that's pretty strong eyewitness testimony.

fairleft

by fairleft (fairleftatyahoodotcom) on Tue Aug 24th, 2010 at 05:53:19 PM EST
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