What mess is he in? Last I checked, he was appealing the extradition to Sweden for questioning about the "rape" allegations. Let's say he loses the appeal; he shows up in Sweden, answers some questions, and is done. The Swedish government has an amazingly weak case against him; so weak it's already been dropped once.

If he doesn't lose the appeal, then he'll stay in England a free man.

The US doesn't like him, but he didn't do anything illegal in the US, so that's not really a problem for him. I doubt he'll be dropping by, though.

I think there is speculation that he'll get extradited from Sweden, though I don't know the specifics of why that is.

That can only happen if the British authorities approve, though. So if the US wanted him there is, legally, no practical difference trying to extradite him from the UK or Sweden.

So it seems unlikely.

I think the rumour started as part of the general theory that the Sweden allegations were a conspiracy by the US to discredit him.

legally there is no diffrence but his lawyers say that its much harder to extadite him from england than from sweden so thats where he wants to stay.

He himself has admitted it would be much easier for the US to extradite him from the UK than from Sweden.

Somehow I think he'll be alright, especially compared to Bradley Manning.