It was a peculiar setting to the final act in a legal drama that has now spanned the globe: a rural Western Pacific island, where visitors are usually tourists – attracted by laid-back resorts, snorkelling, diving and golf – and the furthermost reach of the US.
When Julian Assange stepped from a car today to enter the Saipan courthouse, from which he would emerge hours later a free man, it was against a backdrop that could have adorned a travel brochure. Palm trees waved gently and verdant hills stood against a bright blue sky.
If the location felt bizarre to Assange, his sudden arrival – along with dozens of reporters from news outlets across the world – was equally startling to the 43,000 residents of the largest island and capital of the Northern Marianas, a territory of the United States.
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