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                     WikiLeaks Trial of US Soldier to Begin

   by VOA News

   A U.S. soldier goes on trial Monday for allegedly leaking hundreds of
   thousands of classified documents to the WikiLeaks website.
   Private Bradley Manning faces life in prison if a military judge at
   Fort Meade, Maryland finds him guilty.
   Manning was arrested in 2010. He has admitted giving the information to
   WikiLeaks, saying he wanted to spark public debate on U.S. policy and
   the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
   But prosecutors will argue that he put the lives of U.S. soldiers in
   danger.
   The leaked information includes videos of a U.S. helicopter strike in
   Baghdad that killed civilians.
   Manning's backers say he exposed mistakes the Pentagon would never
   admit.
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