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Wikileaks soldier now in US military jail
 [Al Arabiya Latest] A U.S. soldier accused of leaking a military video from Iraq and suspected in the release of thousands of secret documents on the Afghan war has been moved to a U.S. military jail, the Pentagon said on Friday.Private First Class Bradley Manning arrived at Quantico Marine Base in Virginia late on Thursday, the Pentagon said, after his court martial proceedings were transferred from Camp Arifjan, Kuwait. Manning is facing four charges related to the leak to the website WikiLeaks of a video showing a U.S. Apache helicopter strike in Baghdad in July 2007 that killed several people. He now is also suspected of possible involvement in the bombshell leak to the same website of tens of thousands of classified documents related to the war in Afghanistan. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said posting the war logs on the Web jeopardized national security and put the lives of Afghan informants and U.S. military personnel at risk. Asked what the Obama administration could do to stop the posting of more war secrets, Gibbs said, "We can do nothing but implore the person that has those classified top secret documents not to post anymore." "I think it's important that no more damage be done to our national security," Gibbs told NBC television's "Today" show Friday. Posted by: Fred 2010-07-31 |
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