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According to Reuters, the British newspaper The Independent has the details and cites police sources who "said they knew where Assange was staying and had his telephone number. It added that it was believed he was in southeast England."

Assange provided police with this information when he first arrived in Britain in October.

Assange, who founded WikiLeaks, the whistle-blowing website behind this week's release of more than 250,000 U.S. diplomatic cables, is wanted by the international police organization for reasons that have nothing to do with cablegate.

Interpol is hoping to question Assange about sexual harassment and rape allegations brought to Swedish authorities by two women in August. Officials in Sweden requested Interpol's help in their hunt for Assange on Nov. 18.

Interpol issued a "red notice" this week, raising the priority of locating Assange. But the Independent reports that Britain's Serious Organized Crime Agency (Soca) has yet to authorize the request because it needs "clarifications" about the warrant. The delay is described as "technical."

Before the women's accusations, Assange was hoping to seek asylum in Sweden, which is widely known for backing press freedoms.

The Washington Post reports, "But since then, he has been traveling constantly and staying below the radar, popping up in London, appearing on a videoconference in Amman, Jordan, and answering questions from Time magazine via Skype, reluctant to show himself in flesh and blood...An underground existence is nothing new for Assange, his associates have pointed out. Driven by his anti-secrecy crusade and convinced that governments are out to get him, he has long avoided fixed residences, borrowing travel funds and sleeping on other people's couches between marathon sessions at the computer."

Though Assange remains at large, there's no doubt he's basking in the glory that everyone is talking about him.

• His mother doesn't want him hunted down.
• Joe Lieberman isn't pleased with him or with Amazon.com, which hosted WikiLeaks content for a period of time after the site suffered from hacker attacks. It has since been ousted.
• Assange's home of Australia thinks what he did is "grossly irresponsible," according to the Australian Prime Minister.

So will the answer to where in the world is Julian Assange come sooner than we think?