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US Army to charge Bradley Manning with 'aiding the enemy'
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of The Guardian (One of the UK's leading newspapers)
Posted: April 19th, 2011
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/02/bradley-manning-...
The US Army has announced it is to charge Private Bradley Manning with "aiding the enemy" which can carry the death penalty and 21 further offences of illegally disclosing classified information, after an investigation lasting seven months. The 22 new charges are in addition to the 12 counts of leaking classified information and computer fraud that Manning already faces over material said to be related to the WikiLeaks disclosures and for which he has been held in military custody since May last year. The army's charge sheet states that Manning did "knowingly give intelligence to the enemy, through indirect means," in violation of article 104 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, known as "aiding the enemy". The other new charges include wrongfully causing intelligence to be published on the internet knowing it will be accessed by the enemy, five counts of thefts of public property or records, eight counts of transmitting national defense information to someone not entitled to receive it violating the Espionage Act, two counts of computer fraud, and five counts of breaking US Army computer security rules. The Army's prosecution team said in a statement that if Manning were convicted of all charges, he would face life in prison.
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