# Practicality/legality of a Julian Assange helicopter extraction.

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**Created:** [August 17, 2012, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practicality-legality-of-a-julian-assange-helicopter-extraction/631786 "2012-08-17T15:26:23Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 17, 2012, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practicality-legality-of-a-julian-assange-helicopter-extraction/631786/29 "2012-08-17T21:41:52Z")

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> [@yoyodyne](#):
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> He could leave with a diplomat in a car, and drive to the docks and onto a waiting ferry secretly rented by Ecuador. The both stay in the car until the ferry meets a ship in international waters, to which he transfers.
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> 😛

Or Ecuador could just give him a diplomatic passport and be done with it.  
Most likely, they will give him an Ecuadorian passport, wait until the crowds are gone, take him in a diplomatic car to airport and put him on a diplomatic transport.  
TADA

problem solved.  
refueling? whatever. Airports refuel diplomatic transports all the time without wasting time searching the planes.

England is saber rattling that they would actually invade a country in order to extradite someone to a 3rd country? LOL. not going to happen. The diplomatic uproar would create way too much international upset.

Most countries REALLY dont want their embassies being attacked.

/why didnt osama just hide out at the Saudi embassy in Pakistan?

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