Julian Assange: I was smeared, women stick by molestation charges

The high profile whistleblower behind the controversial website WikiLeaks has spoken out against a group of women who claimed they were raped by him, the Wall Street Journal reports.

It is clearly a smear campaign," Julian Assange told Al-Jazeera yesterday. "The only question is, who was involved?"

One of the two women claim that consensual sex with the internet icon turned abusive, although it was never rape. "The accusations against Assange are not staged by either the Pentagon nor anyone else," the accuser told a Swedish newspaper. "The responsibility for what happened to me and the other girl are with a man with a disturbed view of women and problems accepting a no.