Army Private: WikiLeaks suspect back in court
The suspect is facing charges which could potentially send him to prison for the rest of his life
FORT MEADE/MARYLAND:
US Army Private Bradley Manning, accused of spilling US secrets to WikiLeaks, was back in court Saturday after a failed defense bid to get the presiding officer dismissed from the case. Manning, who turned 24 on Saturday, is facing charges which could potentially send him to prison for the rest of his life and the hearing on this sprawling US military base outside Washington is being held to decide whether he should face a court-martial. Manning is suspected of downloading 260,000 US diplomatic cables, videos of US air strikes and US military reports from Afghanistan and Iraq while serving as a low-ranking intelligence analyst in Iraq and providing them to Assange, who has denied knowing the source of the material.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 18th, 2011.
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