Thursday, March 3, 2011

"Bradley Manning" a Wikileaks suspects faces 22 new allegations


The US army has accused a warrior held on account sharing the secret US government documents available by the Wikileaks website with 22 additional counts.
The new allegations against Private First Class Bradley Manning contain helping the foe, a funds offence, but investigators have considered they will not seek the death sentence. The US intelligence personals are being under arrested at an army lockup in Virginia.
He is accused of seeping out 620,000 diplomatic and army secret documents.
Pte. Manning had joined the US army in 2007, was first time accused in May with 12 allegations of unlawful downloading and sharing a undisclosed video of US army’s action and secret military and ambassadorial papers and cables.
The new blames allege the warrior of utilizing illicit software on US army’s computers to download secret information and to formulate intelligence accessible to "the opponent”. As per the US Uniform Code of Military Justice, the crime is carrying a punishment of death sentence.
 But according to the news release of US army the investigators would not declare death penalty, although Pte. Manning could face life’s prison sentence if he was proved guilty. David Coombs, Pte Manning's lawyer said the soldier's defending team had been planning for the options of further allegations over the past couple of weeks. Pte Manning is being arrested in private detention in a highly safe army prison at Quantico naval base, Virginia.
Mr. Coombs said he anticipates the investigation to analyze whether the army has sufficient material to seek the warrior to be arrest in May or June 2010. The newly published allegations list appears Pte Manning is alleged of acquiring unlawfully. The list added below:
At least 385,000 papers have been snatched from the database of army files from the Iraq war. About 90,000 papers were taken from the database of Afghan war and near about 250,000 papers were collected from the US state department database’s files furthermore 75 confidential US state department wires including one aristocratic “Reykjavik-13”. Also a video file name “12 JUL 07 CZ ENGAGEMENT ZONE 30 GC”.
In current months, Wikileaks has publicized thousands of papers it subjects the Iraq War Logs, the Afghan War Directory, and reams of confidential US state department wires crossing fifty years. The Wikileaks has also published a cable under the name of “Reykjavik 13” which consist upon US diplomats' negotiation with Icelandic officers about that country's critical financial condition, and a secret video of a 2007 helicopter attack in Iraq causing two Reuters news service employees had been killed.

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