US Intell planned to destroy Wikileaks

[Jan Klimkowski]

It's interesting to note Julian Assange points out the overlap of local police and intelligence in Iceland as a consequence of their not having a dedicated intel agency. The police who interrogated the wikileaks volunteer and seized the computer were local, of the sheriff variety, and the local sheriff near the former NATO base was a major proponent of leasing the base to the firm no one knows anything about, other than that they were barred from operating in Canada.

Yup. I'm sure there are plenty of local Deputy Dawgs willing to take the NATO shilling and who have zero understanding of the deep political ramifications of their actions.

My guess in answer to Jan's thoughts would be this has something to do with the terrorism laws Gordon Brown brought to the ICESAVE negotiations before they even started in order to facilitate the seizure of Iceland's assets. Netherlands is the other "plaintiff" seeking to force Iceland to turn private debt into sovereign debt using misconstrued EU law on deposit insurance. Iceland isn't even an EU member and even if it were, the law doesn't specify anything more than that member countries should have an FDIC-like system in place.

My questions in post #22 were in part rhetorical: when Britain and Iceland fought the ludicrous and surreal "Cod Wars", it mostly involved malarkey on the high seas.

The relevant wiki piece starts with some unintentional humour:

The Cod Wars
Not to be confused with the Cold War.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cod_war

I don't think Iceland is about to be invaded, so we need to look for other explanations.

I also don't want to overstretch the Kosovo comparison. However, Iceland is in a geopolitically significant part of the "North Atlantic", and an Icelandic Camp Bondsteel, with military grade runways, radar, listening posts etc, would be militarily valuable as part of NATO's encirclement of the Russian Bear.