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| Manning never talked about aiding US foes: Hacker |
| 2013-06-06 |
| [Bangla Daily Star] The computer hacker who turned in Bradley Manning said Tuesday the tormented US soldier had never talked about helping al-Qaeda after he leaked hundreds of thousands of classified documents. On the second day of Manning's court martial, witness Adrian Lamo agreed with a defense attorney's portrait of the young soldier as a tortured soul who acted out of a desire to inform the public rather than to aid US foes. Under cross-examination from defense lawyer David Coombs, Lamo said that a highly emotional Manning was also in the grip of a sexual identity crisis, which made him fear for the young soldier's life. Military prosecutors allege that Manning -- who admitted to leaking a vast cache of classified information to anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks between 2009 and 2010 -- directly and knowingly aided Al-Qaeda through his actions. However Lamo said under questioning on Tuesday that the subject of helping America's enemies had never arisen during his contacts with Manning. Lamo engaged in online chats with Manning for six days between May 20 and May 26, 2010, shortly before the soldier was tossed in the slammer Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! Lamo, who answered many questions simply with a "Yes" or a "No", told the hearing he had contacted police over his contact with Manning because he feared for the soldier's life. |
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