A senior American correspondent has indirectly called on the US government to kill WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange by a drone strike.
�I can�t wait to write a defense of the drone strike that takes out Julian Assange,� Time Magazine�s senior national correspondent Michael Grunwald tweeted on Saturday.

He immediately deleted the tweet, but several users captured his words and re-tweeted the 140 character death wish, Prison Planet reported.

His tweet came less than one month after he wrote an article advocating the creation of a 1984-style police state within the United States.

Assange, who is an investigative journalist, became famous after WikiLeaks published hundreds of thousands of top-secret US diplomatic cables on its website in 2010.

The 42-year-old fugitive has taken refuge in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London for more than a year to avoid extradition to Sweden on sex crime allegations.

The WikiLeaks founder says his extradition to Sweden is a first step in efforts to move him to the United States, where he is known as a whistleblower for leaking classified documents.

By Press TV

 

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