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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/wikileaks-donations-account-cut-off.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="PayPal has cut off the account used by WikiLeaks to collect donations" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-wikileaks-donations-account-cut-off.jpg" alt="PayPal has cut off the account used by WikiLeaks to collect donations"/></a></p>
<p>Pressure is mounting on WikiLeaks after the online payment agency PayPal cut off the account it uses to gather donations from supporters.</p>
<p>The move, which will hit the whistleblowing website&#8217;s ability to fund itself, comes after two American internet providers withdrew services from WikiLeaks in the wake of its publication of confidential US Government papers.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the site&#8217;s founder Julian Assange remains under threat of extradition from the UK for questioning over sex allegations in Sweden.</p>
<p>WikiLeaks has most recently published cables from the US Embassy in London which showed American officials mocking Britain for its &#8220;paranoia&#8221; over the state of the special relationship.</p>
<p>Deputy head of mission Richard LeBaron wrote that the anxiety had become particularly frenzied following Barack Obama&#8217;s election as President, with media reports that his removal of a bust of Winston Churchill from the Oval Office was seen as a sign of waning US commitment to Britain.</p>
<p>&#8220;This over-reading would often be humorous, if it were not so corrosive,&#8221; wrote Mr LeBaron. It would be &#8220;tempting&#8221; to keep the British Government guessing about its standing in Washington, in order to &#8220;make London more willing to respond favourably when pressed for assistance&#8221;, suggested the diplomat.</p>
<p>The cables also revealed that prior to the General Election Foreign Secretary William Hague told Mr LeBaron that the Tories would be a &#8220;pro-American regime&#8221;, while Defence Secretary Liam Fox told ambassador Louis Susman that the special relationship would be &#8220;especially close in the defense sphere under Tory leadership&#8221;.</p>
<p>PayPal said in a blog posting that its withdrawal of services to WikiLeaks was prompted by a violation of its policy, &#8220;which states that our payment service cannot be used for any activities that encourage, promote, facilitate or instruct others to engage in illegal activity&#8221;.</p>
<p>WikiLeaks was moved to a Swiss host after the withdrawal of service by two US providers, and moves by Paris to ensure that it was not hosted in France.</p>
<p>There is speculation that Mr Assange, who is understood to be in England, may be facing imminent arrest under an international warrant obtained by Swedish prosecutors. The 39-year-old Australian former computer hacker is wanted for questioning on allegations &#8211; which he strongly denies &#8211; of rape, sexual molestation and unlawful coercion.</p>
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