The plane carrying Julian Assange, who according to the Wikileaks whistleblowing publisher he founded has been released from British custody, took off for the Western Pacific on Tuesday evening after a stopover of several hours in Bangkok. The Bombardier charter plane is flying from Thailand’s capital to the island of Saipan, which belongs to the Northern Mariana Islands and is a foreign territory of the United States. The aircraft is expected to arrive early Wednesday morning. On the flightradar24 flight-tracking platform, flight number VJT199, which Assange’s wife Stella and Wikileaks had pr…