Manning plea statement: Americans had a right to know 'true cost of war'

After admitting guilt in 10 of the 22 counts, soldier reveals how she came to share classified documents to Wikileaks and speaks of the "bloodlust" U.S. helicopter crew

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Bradley Manning, the soldier accused of the largest unauthorized disclosure of state secrets in American history, pleaded guilty to being the source of the leak, said a military court which passed the information to a site to denounce because he believed that the American people have the right to know the "real costs of the war."

In a preliminary hearing in a military base in Maryland, Manning, 25, who faces spending the rest of his life in military custody, read a statement on 35 pages realized that his passion for motivations for the transmission of classified documents and videos that were obtained while working as an intelligence analyst in the suburbs of Baghdad.

Sitting on the edge of the defense in a quiet courtyard, Manning said he was disgusted by the apparent "bloodlust" of the helicopter crew involved in the attack group in Baghdad, which resulted Reuters correspondents include children.

thought of Afghanistan and Iraq war logs published by WikiLeaks, first in collaboration with a consortium of international media organizations, including The Guardian, "one of the most important documents of our time reveal the true costs of war. "The decision to transmit classified information to a public website was motivated, he told the court, his depression about the state of the military conflict in which the United States was profound.

Manning said: "We were obsessed with the capture and killing of human targets in lists and ignoring the objectives and missions that I thought if the public, especially the American public could see what which could cause a debate on the army., and our foreign policy in general [which] could cause the company to reconsider the need to engage in the fight against terrorism regardless of the situation of people involved everyday . "

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In a move unusual for an accused in a criminal case serious, Manning pleaded guilty to 10 charges of mischief out of his own free will - not in the context of a plea agreement with prosecutors . He admitted that he had and voluntarily disclosed to an unauthorized person - probably Julian Assange -. All major elements of the revelation of WikiLeaks

covering called "Collateral Murder" video of an Apache attack helicopter in Iraq, some U.S. diplomatic cables as one of the first publications of WikiLeaks cable Reykjavik parts of Iraq and folders the war in Afghanistan, some of the cases of Guantanamo detainees., and two MOUs

The charges he pleaded guilty soldier carries a maximum penalty of two years each, making Manning an upper limit possible 20 years in military prison.

But why not avoid a long and complex process for the soldier, who must start June 3 Manning pleaded not guilty to 12 charges relating to offenses largest alleged by the U.S. government.

Specifically, he denied having been involved in "intelligence with the enemy" - the idea that he knowingly gave aid to Al-Qaeda and caused the secret intelligence to be published on the Internet, knowing that in doing so, and would be available to the enemy.

• reading his speech, Manning was accompanied by his civilian lawyer, David Coombs, on one side, and two military defense lawyers on the other. Using uniform, the soldier reading a document at high speed, sometimes stumbled over the words and laughing at other points of their own comments.
• He told how he had first become aware of WikiLeaks in 2009. He was particularly impressed by its launch in November this year of more than 500,000 text messages sent on the day of the attacks of 9/11 terrorists.
• He copied the war initially registered as a housekeeping measure for quick access to information. But the more I read in the data, he said, more concerned with what I discovered.

He decided to take a copy of the data in a memory device after returning from Iraq to the United States in January 2010 authorization. There, after losing all interest in the Washington Post and the New York Times in the cache information, turned to WikiLeaks.

his return to Iraq, he found a video that shows an Apache attack helicopter from 2007, in which a group of people in Baghdad was attacked United States. The group was subsequently convicted of included civilians, children and two Reuters correspondents who have died.

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