Assange’s stay at the Ecuadorian Embassy is reminiscent of Osama bin Laden’s stay in Pakistan, except OBL’s presence was a secret that everybody agreed to. And when the time came to take out the trash, Pakistan looked the other way. You can bet that the US State Department knows what it will take to get Ecuador to look the other way — it just hasn’t happened yet.
If I had to be as to the ‘means’, I’d say a fabricated ‘health emergency’. Mr. Assange gets rushed to a hospital where he tragically dies. You see, because everybody knows where Assange is, the death cannot take place inside the embassy.
Sounds plausible.