US soldier charged with leaking classified Iraq killings video
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Bradley Manning, the U.S. soldier who was arrested for leaking a classified video has been indicted by the U.S. Army. He is accused of being responsible for the disclosure of a video which shows an air strike by the U.S. troops in Baghdad in 2007. The video shows the US soldiers attacking a group of people from a helicopter, who apparently posed no threat, killing a dozen people, including Reuters photographer Namir Noor Eldeen and his assistant.
Intelligence analyst Manning, 22, was attributed to the charges of leaking classified information, gaining access to prohibited electronic documents and transfering these data to his PC, the military said in a statement, thus announcing the forthcoming a military trial.
Manning was part of the troops deployed in Baghdad and is in custody in Kuwait, or at least it was when U.S. authorities announced his arrest last month.
The controversial video appeared on the media after being exhibited across the portal Wikileaks, a site in which any citizen can provide confidential information anonymously in order to combat corruption.
Wired magazine recently described Manning as an intelligence analyst who attracted suspicion after confessing the controversial leak in an email sent to a hacker. Además, el militar también estaría siendo investigado por otros envíos de información clasificada, entre ellos unas imágenes de un ataque bomba de Bagdad en 2009 en el que murieron varios civiles o 26.000 documentos clasificados de la diplomacia norteamericana. In addition, the military would also be under investigation for other shipments of classified information, including images of a bomb attack in Baghdad in 2009 that killed several civilians or 26,000 classified documents of American diplomacy.
