In the fall of 2010, a year after the document was written, European intelligence agencies were scrambling to investigate a Mumbai-style plot involving German and other European militants -- which sparked an unprecedented U.S. State Department travel warning for Americans in Europe.

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But after a spat with Assange over his leadership style and his singular focus on massive U.S. document dumps, Domscheit-Berg defected, taking several engineers with him.

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